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"A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."--Newsweek Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews--now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition. Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.

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"Uden kamp ingen sejr" er beretningen om tiden og mentaliteten under den tyske besættelse af Danmark i årene 1940-45 fortalt af en de af mest kendte danske modstandsfolk, Jens Toldstrup. I bogen fortæller han om de mange aktioner, som modstandsfolkene gennemførte, blandt andet de mange nedkastninger, sabotager og den illegale sejlads til Sverige. Men Toldstrup fortæller også om de danske unge modstandsfolks mentalitet og sindstilstand under besættelsen.Jens Toldstrup (1915-1991) var en dansk forfatter og modstandsmand. Han var reserveofficer og fik derfor hurtigt efter besættelsen i 1940 kontakt til modstandsbevægelsen, hvor han spillede en stor rolle. I 1944-45 blev han leder af modstandsbevægelsen i Nordjylland, Region 1. Han skrev efterfølgende bogen "Kamp og sejr" (1976), der er en beretning fra Danmarks besættelse 1940-45.

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Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the Guardian Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story.In 1938, 29-year-old 'Nicky' cancelled a ski holiday and instead spent 9 months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan to rescue hundreds of children and find them homes in the UK. There are around 6000 people who are alive today because of him.What motivated an ordinary man to do something so extraordinary? This book, written by his daughter, Barbara, explores the 106-year life of an incredible humanitarian, a man whose astounding feats only came to public light decades later. His legacy is to encourage us all to act when we see injustice or need, and to remind us that every one of us can change the world for the better.'If something is not impossible, then there must be a way to do it.'

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wonderful aid' David Aaronovitch, The Times Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before.

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Jeg vil ikke græde endnu – en autentisk beretning om ægteparret Anna og Vilhelm Filges. Vilhelm var grænsegendarm under 2. verdenskrig og blev sammen med sine kolleger taget af tyskerne den 19. september 1944 og senere sendt til Neuengamme koncentrationslejr. Anna skrev dagbog mens Vilhelm sad i lejrene og Vilhelm indtalte mange år efter krigen en mundtlig beretning om tiden i koncentrationslejr på bånd. Både Annas dagbog og Vilhelms mundtlige beretning er gengivet uredigeret som skrevet og sagt, med enkelte udeladte passager. Bogen er blevet til takket være et stort bidrag fra Maria Helleberg, som lagde linjen og skrev det første omfattende og væsentlige udkast. En stor tak til Maria, uden hvem denne bog aldrig var blevet til noget.Familien er enige om ikke at ville profitere på at udgive Anna og Vilhelms historie. Alt overskud, der ellers ville tilfalde forfatterne, gives derfor ubeskåret videre til Ungdomsgården i Vamdrup. Hvorfor valget lige er faldet på Ungdomsgården i Vamdrup, vil være klart for enhver, som giver sig tid til at læse denne bog og høre Annas stemme.