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Germany's Nazi government initially made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin's oldest buildings, the Old Reich Chancellery. Unsatisfied with the building, Adolf Hitler commissioned Albert Speer to design and build a newer, grander structure, and his New Reich Chancellery was completed in early 1939. Hitler described his New Reich Chancellery and other Nazi buildings as his words of stone, eternal monuments to the work that he and the Nazi party intended to perpetuate. Frequented by Hitler and his inner circle, the Chancellery witnessed their fanatical plans and was an architectural reflection of Hitler s megalomania. Fuhrerbunker, built underneath the Chancellery, became the last refuge of a dying regime; it was here that Hitler retreated to order the destruction of Germany and ultimately to take his own life. This book is a virtual tour of the now demolished Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker. It covers the history of each structure, notes the architectural changes that Hitler made to suit his purposes, and describes the historical events that took place within each building s walls. Appendices contain a chronology of Reich Chancellors (1871-1945), a detailed list of renovations to the Chancellery, and a register of notable gatherings that took place in the Old Reich Chancellery prior to 1914. Texts of various speeches by Hitler are reproduced, along with a copy of his agreement to occupy Czechoslovakia, which was signed in the Reich Chancellery.
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It is not an illustrated history.......2007-03-09
I bought this book looking for great pictures of the chancellery (as the title says) but there are just a few and just in blak and white.
Reich Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker Complex.......2007-01-04
Impressive collection of pictures; useful for those wondering about the places they read about in history books.
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- A great overview for the casual and dedicated reader (002)
- ordinary policemen in a tyrant's service
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- A good overview of the German State Secret Police.
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An Illustrated History of the Gestapo
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A great overview for the casual and dedicated reader (002).......2006-05-18
Another fine book by Rupert Butler, this book will take the reader from the earliest days of the GEheimeSTaatsPOlizie, or Secret State Police, through to the end of the war. Starting from when it was just another professional plain-clothes police department, the Prussian Secret Police, to the rivalry of Göring and Himmler, which saw the control of the Gestapo pass from Göring to Himmler, to accommodate both mens larger agendas. Good clear descriptions of the key personnel involved in the Gestapo and the Reich's other security agencies, such as Himmler's deputy and head of the SD Reinhard 'Hangman' Heydrich, Heinrich 'Gestapo' Müller, Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Arthur Nebe, and others. Also covers the other German security agencies, such as the Kripo, the Orpo, and the SD amongst others, and deals with the rivalry between the Gestapo and the SD, to the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, and the consequences for both the SS and the Gestapo in the aftermath. Easy to read for the layman, and a good read for the dedicated student of WWII German Security Agencies.
A top read!
ordinary policemen in a tyrant's service.......2006-05-07
Todoy GESTAPO is a word for tyranny and terror.
It is seen as synonomouse with the SS yet it was never directly parat of that organization. It is seen as Himmler's creation yet truth is that its origens predate the Nazis.
When it first existed during the days of the Weimar Republic it was just an ordinary branch of plain cloths detectives with a set jurisdiction, and; would have remained so had Hitler not become Chanceller and then dictator of Germany and Herman Goering not taken an interest in its use.
This is the well researched story of this instrument of oppression and a warning to all who see no wrong in giving government unlimited power.
The Banality of Evil.......2003-03-16
Throughout recorded history, all totalitarian regimes have needed their secret police to do their dirty work. The Catholic Church had its Inquisition in the Middle Ages, the Russian Communists had their NKVD/KGB during the mid-twentieth century, and the German Nazis had theirs in the Geheime Staatz Poliezi, the Gestapo. In AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GESTAPO, Rupert Butler provides both text and visuals to trace the evolution of a state sanctioned thuggery that was supposed to safeguard the existence of a thousand year Reich, that mercifully went out of business after only 12 years.
After the end of the Great War in 1918,Germany was a beaten nation that nevertheless did not learn that brute aggression must one day cause a bitter price to be paid. Butler suggests that an organization like the Nazi party could never have been allowed to exist were it not for both the political myopia of the victors who insisted on crushing a fragile post-war German economy with heavy reparations and a widespread tendency for an entire nation of Germans to rally around a flag that placed anti-semitism as its motivating force in re-establishing itself as a conquering world power.
To those not familiar with the overlapping structures of the Nazi party, Butler delineates how the Gestapo, the SA, the SS, the SD, and the many branches of the police all interwove to keep a tight lid on the lives of every German and every conquered national. Butler describes the early years of the formation of the Gestapo with Heinrich Himmler at the center. Then he analyzes how the other security organs like the SS and SD sometimes co-operated, sometimes competed for dominance. The infamous names of the leaders are, of course, well-documented both in this book, and in others: Goering, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner, Borman, Goebbels. What stands out in Butler's mind is the ordinariness of most of the top echelon of the Nazi hierarchy. Most of them, before they became power players, had quite ordinary lives. Himmler himself looked like the pale shopkeeper that he was before he entered the SS. Heydrich was a womanizer who entered the SS only to avoid a scandal. The destruction that the various organs of the Nazi security apparatus were to wreak on both Jew and Slav were largely the result of weak, dull, and drab individuals who prefered to give their orders of death and genocide to a set of truly vicious underlings who were only to glad to carry them out. The world rarely gets a chance to put the originators of genocide in a docket of law to be charged as criminals, but in 1946 in Nuremberg, the collective leadership of the Nazi dream of world conquest was called to account. During their trials, their very ordinariness underscored the true nature of evil. The Gestapo, as the epitome of evil and horror, was run at the top by men who saw their lives through the eyes as the miserable low-ranking bureaucrats that they were once, and claimed to be as their defense from that docket. The dough-faced prisoners sitting in that Nuremberg court in 1946 were living reminders that evil can be spectacularly ordinary. Butler's book says that about as well as anyone can.
History repeating itself? You be the judge........2002-08-08
This is one of the most excellent books I have ever read on the Nazi formation of the AMT-IV Geheime Staats Polizei and the Einsatz Gruppen. Being of German descent and having family members who immigrated just prior to this time, I have been very interested in this chapter of world history. This book really delivers in a straight reality type of way! If you want some strong but straightforward reporting of the issues that generated the gestapo and where it went from there, this is the book for you. A must for history students or history buffs. A must for anyone who wants to know just how easy it is to fall into the trap of "anti-terrorism" laws. Intrigued? GET THIS BOOK! Always remember Arbeit DOES NOT Macht Frei.
A good overview of the German State Secret Police........2002-07-01
If you are looking for a good summary of what the Gestapo were about, this is the book. It details the involvement of Goring, Himmiler, and Heydrich in the founding of this deadly device. It gives the most famous cases involving the the Gestapo such as the assisination of Heydrich and the plot against Hitler. One thing this book does poorly is portray events in chronological order, making it confusing for the beginner. Since this is a book for the beginner, it is liable to confuse him/her more. Also it is poor is distinguishing the difference between the SS and the Gestapo. The beginner would think they were one and the same, when in fact they were very different.
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Profusely illustrated and rare photographic history of the Volkswagen car and its military use in Hitler's Third Reich.
When Volkswagen burst upon the American automobile scene in the 1960s, it established a reputation for both economy and reliability. Few who drove the original sixties' "Love Bug" knew that the vehicle was the creation of Adolf Hitler in the days of the Third Reich. Originally intended as a symbol of prewar prosperity, the Volkswagen, or "people's car," eventually became a key element in the Nazi war machine.
With the outbreak of World War II, the production of the Volkswagen car was adapted for military use, and the Kubelwagen, German "jeep," was designed and manufactured throughout Germany. A special amphibious version, the "Schwimmwagen," was later developed and spearheaded many major German offensives. Appearing in several variants, Volkswagen vehicles became the mainstay of German command and motorized units.
This detailed history of the Volkswagen in the 1930s and 1940s covers all varieties of makes and models of the Volkswagen in use during the Third Reich and is richly illustrated with rare photographs of the vehicles themselves, technical drawings, engine designs, and sales brochures of the period.
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Good read.......2007-01-05
Very interesting and well thought out book. Lots of cool wartime photos and history on the VW bug
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Provides a sensible, coherent overview of the greatest story of the 20th century. It analyzes the Nazis rise to power, looking at the politics of post World War I Germany and examining the machinations of Hitler and the party as it struggled to become the strongest in a sea of sharks.... Profusely illustrated.
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Well-documented photo history of the Third Reich.......2002-10-22
This book begins with the defeat of Germany in World War I and concludes with the surrender on VE Day. Included in length are photos of the turmoil that took place inbetween the end of World War I and the founding of the Weimar Republic, the fighting by the Communists, and the Bavarian coups. The war pictures are themselves revealing as well.
The text accompanying the photos is a well-detailed (for a book mainly of pictures) history. However, the real treat in this book are the colour pictures, which include war photos, war insignia, and posters. Page 78, for example, has a Volkswagen ad, and the family rallying for Nazism picture was used by Laibach for the cover of their album, Sympathy For The Devil.
The black and white photos also provide a time capsule into an age that's looked at in both horror and fascination, though it's more the latter for me.
Other documents included are a copy of the Instrument of Surrender signed by Montgomery and the Nuremberg Laws written by Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart.
The glossary at the end includes a list of German titles and terms, such as Einsatzkommando, Kries, and Abwehr, a list of second rank officials such as Reinhard Heydrich, Roland Freisler, and Julius Streicher, and what their positions were in the Reich.
Seeing as how Bradley borrowed from Shirer and Liddell-Hart, who are among the top in this field, this is a worthy book.
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A book short and concise, but with euphemisms.......2007-06-23
I read this book here in Brazil.This book is short, has many photos(all black & white), concise and correct.The failures of this book are small.One of them is the full use of euphemisms.To exemple, this book doesn't shows, that the order to rape massive numbers of german women, came from Stalin himself.Also the military useless, massive air bombardment against Berlin, by USA and England is almost forgotten.
Even with these failures, this book remains usefull, correct and short.A good choice as an introduction about this subject.
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A good introduction about this subject.......2007-09-04
I read this good book, here in Brazil.Many photos;all of them black and white photos.This book is concise, short and unbiased.If you want details, there's others options.This short book is an introduction about the Battle of Berlin.Failures of this book are small.The introduction was made at Cold War times and reflects that times.The book itself is good.Another little problem of this good book are the maps:few and a little weak.
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- Hitler and Nazism-great reading
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Hitler and Nazism (Interlink Illustrated Histories)
Enzo Collotti
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On January 30, 1933, the president of Germany appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Hitler's National Socialist Party had won a majority in the general elections the year before, and thus Hitler's ascension to power and the rise of German national socialism, or Nazism, began under the color of "legitimacy."
The rise of Nazism was rooted in the crisis in German society following the post-World War I economic collapse of the late 1920s. Germany's already weak democratic institutions had been further undermined by continuing political attacks, and therefore the impact of Hitler's party was even greater.
The following years would see the inexorable establishment of Germany's totalitarian state, with the consolidation of full dictatorship between 1934 and 1938. This process occurred through the continuous creation and use of repressive instruments and a powerful ideology, rooted in racism and imperialism, that led finally to the years of Nazi terror during World War II.
Understanding the rise of Hitler and Nazism remains key to understanding today's Germany, today's Europe and today's world.
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Hitler and Nazism-great reading.......2000-04-20
This is an excellent book on Hitler and Nazism, a straight-forward, unbias book on how Adolf Hitler started, and finished. New information in this book makes it fresh to read. Anyone who wants to read a small book (155 pages) about Hitler and get straight to the point should get this book. Packed with pictures, the words and pictures help tell the story of Nazi Germany.
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Toynbee Ikeda Dialog
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Great idea for a book.......2002-08-25
This is one of the best debates I ever came across. Toynbee and Ikeda are both great scholars, but they approach historical issues from different perspectives--Toynbee from the west, and Ikeda from the east, with a more Buddhist perspective. They both have the same concerns and the similarities and differences between their philosophies makes for fascinating reading. This was a very welcome book given my intersest in the great F.S.C. Northrup's ideas, who was concerned himself with interpreting the meeting between east and west in his writings. As a result of reading Northrup, I now know that the meaning of life is that it consists of the infinitely regressive consciousness of the undifferentiated aesthetic continuum! (Yes, it's as simple as that). This book also sheds a great deal of light on the philosophical meeting of east and west. Altogether a fine book by two great scholars.
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- A great introduction to the limits of math
- Informal and engaging
- This is a Great Book for Math Fans
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Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of a number of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language. Delightful elucidations of methods for misunderstanding the real world of experiment (Aristotle's Circle paradox), being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's paradox), and other mind-benders. 1982 edition.
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A great introduction to the limits of math.......2007-04-02
Most causual users of math consider it to be the most unassailable of endeavors.
After, 2 + 2 always has to equal 4 doesn't it?
It turns out that at the periphery of math there are certain inconsistencies that can arise either owing to the use of faulty methods in arriving at a conclusion (what Bunch calls "fallacies") or inconsistencies owing to the limits of math itself (what Bunch calls "paradoxes").
Though one would need recourse to the book itself in order to completely understand what Bunch means by each category, what follows are a couple of examples to help illustrate the kinds of issues this book will treat.
In relation to fallacies, an early example used by Bunch is Aristotle's paradox wherein Aristotle tried to use a deceptively simple experiment to measure the perimeter of two circles. For ease of convenience, let's say he used two coins of different denominations...say a dime and a half dollar.
Obviously, the coins by their size have to have different measures of distance around their perimeters. And yet, according to Aristotle's experiment, they turn out equally. They turn out equally because Aristotle simply placed one on top of the other and rolled them to see which would make a complete turn the earliest. As you may have gleaned they both turned at the same time owing to the particular mathematics of circles.
Bunch's point is that by applying incorrect reasoning Aristotle's "paradoxical" result was simply a fallacy.
In terms of true paradoxes, Bunch discussed Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem which says that any consistent system will produce so called "formally undecideable propositions." In other words, to the extent that a consistent system produces self referential statements, those statements can defy formal proof.
An oft used English language example is "This sentence is false." Obviously, the sentence is neither be bracketed with all true statements or all false statements owing to its category defying nature.
In turns out that Kurt Godel was able to stand over two millenia of math philosophy on its head by showing that math had its logically limits of proof.
As can be seen from the previous examples, this book is thought provoking even for casual readers who admittedly will have to struggle cracking the hard nutshell of some its more dense arguments. However, those who do so will be richly rewarded for the heightened understanding of the limits of math they have thereby gained in the process.
Informal and engaging.......2005-08-22
This is a great informal treatment of some of the more notable paradoxes and fallacies of mathematics and mathematical reasoning, old and new. Bunch's prose style is clear and unencumbered and his presentation of each topic - from his easily resolved fallacies and paradoxes of basic algebra and geometry to the deeper and unresolved paradoxes of logic and analysis - is always clean, well-illustrated and engaging.
At a glance, he treats:
The Liar paradox and Godel's Incompleteness theorems
Zeno's and the Sorites paradoxes and the conceptual difficulties associated with the continuum
The existence of irrational magnitudes and some basic philosophical issues associated with existence proofs
The Petersburg paradox
The paradoxes of Infinity and the Formalist and Intuitionist responses to them
The set theoretic paradoxes of Cantor, Russell, and Burali-Forti
The paradoxes of the axiom of choice including the Cantor diagonilisation, Skolem, Hausdorff and Tarski-Banach parodoxes
and a range of thought experiments which highlight the difficulties that may be asociated with applying abstract reasoning to the real world - notably those of the Thompson lamp experiment and Tarski-Banach golden sphere manufacturing plant.
If you want a good popular treatment of the subject matter with a detailed and informal emphasis on the key themes mathematical logic, then this is the book for you. The informal description Godel's first Incompleteness theorem is excellent, as is the discussion of the paradoxes of self reference as they appear in set theory and logic. As such, I would recommend it as excellent recreational reading for anyone with a budding interest in mathematical logic, whether they be math graduates or high-school students.
This is a Great Book for Math Fans.......2001-12-12
This is a great book for people who love mathematics, including: recreational math enthusiasts, math teachers, professors and other university level math instructors, curious and self-motivated students, etc. This book provides numerous examples of how seemingly logical steps can lead to mathematically fallacious results. The level of math ranges from advanced high school to college level math, but the level is not really important ... what is important is the insights one can get from looking at common mathematical mistakes.
This book may also be of interest to neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists who are interested in how human beings learn and apply mathematics. On a somewhat related note, I have noticed that (for some strange reason) this book has attracted a set of rather bizarre reviewers (see below). Please ignore them and buy this inexpensive and insightful book on math.
Zeno and set theory.......2001-07-29
It is the paradoxes that keep us honest in mathematics. Tarski with Banach found a basic flaw in the axiom of choice in set theory. Zeno has puzzled children for two thousand years... Time travel paradoxes are the modern "new" problem of tacyonic loops and the Hawking conjecture. Without examples of critical thinking doctrine rules and men become fools!
Interesting.......2000-04-23
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Mathematics. The fallacies are interesting, including the author's. For example, on page 94 regarding Oscar Wilde's epigram : "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it". Mr. Bunch suggests this to be a fallacy due to the key word "only", and offers an example such as suicide to show "only" to be invalid. But would not suicide be a temptation as well? Or for that manner, anything one would try?
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Paradoxes and Problems to Intrigue Your Students One equals zero! Every number is greater than itself! All triangles are isosceles! Surprised? Welcome to the world of One Equals Zero and Other Mathematical Surprises. In this book of blackline activity masters, all men are bald, mistakes are lucky, and teachers can never spring surprise tests on their students! The paradoxes and problems in each One Equals Zero activity will perplex your students, arouse their curiosity, and challenge their intellect. Each counterintuitive result, false analogy, and answer that defies expectation will encourage students to look at familiar mathematical situations in a new light. By solving the paradoxes, your students will come to better understand both the possibilities and the limitations of mathematics.
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Puzzles, pizza, paradoxes, phibonacci & fallacies
Samuel Fox McInroy
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