Historische & politische Biographien

Mit einer wissenschaftlichen Herangehensweise analysiert das Buch eine alte Frage, nämlich die Motive Hitlers für seine Verbrechen. Durch eine Kategorisierung von Hass-Emotionen und Antisemitismus auf der Grundlage ihrer evolutionären Wurzeln konnten Vorhersagen bezüglich Hitlers Hass-Entwicklung und Antisemitismus getroffen werden. Daneben dienten weniger beachtete geschichtliche Details sowie die enorm angewachsenen Erkenntnisse der medizinischen Wissenschaften dazu, seine Lebensgeschichte neu zu beleuchten. Dabei konnte keine beweisbare Wahrheit gefunden werden, jedoch eine Geschichte, welche der Wahrheit wahrscheinlich sehr nahekommt.Die erzielten Ergebnisse deuten übereinstimmend auf Hitlers Abstammung, insbesondere den bislang unbekannten Großvater, als den Urgrund seiner Hass-Entwicklung. Sie legen nahe, dass sein Großvater sehr wahrscheinlich jüdischer Abstammung war. Für den jungen Hitler war dies zunächst identifikationsstiftend. Erst die demütigende Negierung seiner Abstammung durch die Familie induzierte eine aus Wut geborene Ablehnung dieser Familienbande, was zum vorherrschenden Konflikt in seiner Persönlichkeit wurde. Die Mannigfaltigkeit der Hinweise führt auch zu einer Persönlichkeit, die Hitlers bislang unbekannter Großvater gewesen sein könnte. Wenngleich diese Spur eine Spekulation bleibt, offenbart sie eine sinnmachende Erklärung für Hitlers Judenhass. Die Geschichte seines Großvaters war Hitlers großes traumatisierendes Geheimnis, weswegen er sie ein Leben lang zu verbergen suchte. Letztendlich ist dieses Buch ein Indizienprozess. Dem Leser bleibt es überlassen, ein Urteil zu fällen.

Ce roman ne peut être que le souvenir d'un jeune homme à peine sortie de l'adolescence, marin de la marine nationale.Il relate de cette histoire un court moment de sa vie, un passage de l'existence, fabuleuse, féérique et mortelle où se mélange la découverte, la joie, le bonheur, la peine, le dégoût, l'alcoolisme, la folie, la mort, la contamination et puis... ! Et puis ces long mensonges, le rejet se son être et de sa nationalité, de ces amis aux vies écourtées, de ces douleur supportées.Une cinquantaine d'années se sont passées. Dans un déni encore présent, les souvenirs se sont quelques peu émoussés, les dates et les lieux peuvent être légèrement altérés, ou bien divergents, mais le fil rouge du vécu reste présent, ancré au plus profond de son être.

The first fully comprehensive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years, drawing on a rich variety of primary sources from both Elizabeth herself and those closest to her during her tumultuous youth.

The first family named Dow in America landed in 1637, escaping from the persecution of the English kings and the Anglican Church as a part of the 'great migration' begun by the Pilgrims 17 years earlier.Two hundred and seventy years later, descendent George W. Dow captained the only seven-masted sailing vessel ever built-the Thomas W. Lawson-on its maiden cross-Atlantic voyage. Encountering unfathomable weather, and monstrous winds, tides, and waves as it approached the English coast, the Lawson slipped her anchors and sunk among treacherous rocks in the Scilly Isles. The schooner, its cargo, and 16 sailors were lost, but 'lucky' Captain Dow and his engineer were heroically saved from the rocks the next day.This story is an account of how Captain Dow was the culmination of the Dow family's evolution from immigrants in a primitive, 17th century foreign land, to seafaring as an occupation, as a new United States and global economy began to emerge. And, his life also was the last of the Dow's New England-based, sea faring existence, as the Captain's descendants-already five generations and counting-spread from Boston to homes, careers and lives far-flung from Maine and New England.

William Redfern is Australia's first medical graduate. His pioneering work in public health medicine is acknowledged with the William Redfern Oration given at the annual congress of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.Redfern was a surgeon's mate aboard HMS Standard during the 1797 Nore mutiny. For his involvement he was sentenced to death and spent three years in Coldbath Fields prison, England's cruelest jail, before being transported to New South Wales. The opening chapters narrate Redfern's training as a surgeon; the Nore mutiny; his court-martial; his imprisonment in England and transportation to NSW.Redfern is sent to Norfolk Island as a convict to work as a surgeon in the hospital. He spends seven years there during the era of Joseph Foveaux, John Piper and surgeon D'Arcy Wentworth. He earns an absolute pardon; returns to Sydney following the overthrow of Governor William Bligh and is appointed surgeon at the old George Street hospital. He treats the imprisoned Bligh, who had been a captain aboard a ship involved in the Nore mutiny. Governor Macquarie makes him the health inspector of convict ships and Redfern becomes his personal physician and a close confidant of Macquarie. Redfern helps plan Sydney's "Rum hospital" and is the supervising surgeon there; also has a large private medical practice. In 1819 he resigns from the hospital when not appointed as Principal Surgeon and quits medicine after Commissioner Bigge, who was inquiring into Macquarie's liberal emancipist policies, questions his abilities and qualifications. Bigge also cancels his appointment as magistrate. The tumultuous early colonial years in New South Wales are revealed through Redfern's personal life and medical experiences.The closing chapters describe Redfern's successes in medicine, banking and agriculture. He becomes one of the most respected members in the colony but, as an emancipist, he was shunned socially. He becomes an activist for emancipist civil rights and sails to London with Edward Eagar to petition the British Parliament. Years later William Redfern enrolls in medical studies at Edinburgh University while overseeing the education of his oldest son.