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"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

Richard Bessel, history professor at the University of York, specializes in the social and political history of Nazi Germany. In four compelling essays, he forcefully argues that racism made war inevitable. The Third Reich, led by "[A] band of political gangsters", came to power with a deep ideological commitment to war and racism. As the driving force behind the economics, social policy, and propaganda of Germany, racial hatred was the catalyst that plunged Europe into war.

The most famous battle of the 19th century was undoubtedly Waterloo, and the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars was Leipzig, but neither one of those legendary battles was the biggest of the century. That distinction instead belongs to the Battle of Königgrätz, a little known, but decisive conflict in a war between Prussia and Austria. Though it lasted only seven weeks and only had one truly decisive battle, the Austro-Prussian War nonetheless changed the political outlook in Europe forever.

München hat schon einiges erlebt seit seiner Gründung 1158. Aber trotzdem gibt es heute noch Gebäude, Straßen und Plätze, die über Jahrhunderte hinweg erhalten geblieben sind. Dieses Hörbuch bringt einen Querschnitt durch diese Zeiten. Mal amüsant, aber auch Geschichten, die zum Nachdenken anregen.

In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting. By the 1960s, East Germany was pushing for a solution to the problem of an enclave of freedom within its borders. West Berlin was a haven for highly-educated East Germans who wanted freedom and a better life in the West.

Alexander Bandilla bringt dem Hörer ein historisches Dokument näher. Und zwar ein ganz besonderes: Willy Brandt, einer der wichtigsten Politiker des 20. Jahrhundert, verfasste seinerzeit im Exil einen persönlichen Bericht, in dem er eindringliche Schilderungen aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg liefert. Die Zeitung Nordens Frihet nennt diese Darstellung "anerkennenswert ruhig und sachlich gehalten und von jeder sterilen und falschen Argumentation frei." Willy Brandt wurde am 18. Dezember 1913 in Lübeck geboren. Er wuchs er in der Lübecker Vorstadt St. Lorenz-Süd auf, erst bei seiner Mutter und später bei seinen Großeltern.

95 Thesen, gedacht als Beginn eines Diskurses über die Ablasspraktiken der Kirche und insbesondere des Papstes - damit begann Martin Luthers Aufstieg zu einem der bekanntesten Menschen der Weltgeschichte. Eine ungekürzte Lesung.

Nach der Lektüre von Frank Witzels preisgekröntem Roman "Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969" prägte der Historiker und Kulturwissenschaftler Philipp Felsch den Begriff "BRD Noir" für die Epoche zwischen Nachkriegszeit und Wende. Im Studiogespräch spüren die beiden Autoren mit Witz und Verve der Düsternis und dem Grauen nach, die unter der glitzernden Oberfläche der sich im Aufbau befindenden BRD verborgen liegen.

Am 7. November 1918 wurde Revolution gemacht in München, Kaserne um Kaserne musste die rote Flagge hissen, bis die Wittelsbacher endlich zugunsten der Republik gestürzt waren. Dass der Freistaat Bayern, der von konservativen Kreisen so stolz im Munde getragen wird, ausgerechnet von dem Sozialisten Kurt Eisner ausgerufen wurde, wird hierzulande gerne unter den Tisch gekehrt, ebenso wie das blutige Ende der Münchner Räterepublik. Wer könnte sich besser zu einer schaurig-schönen Reise zu den Ursprüngen des roten Bayerns aufmachen als Hans Well?

A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors. Here, Bill Niven offers a powerful argument for reconsidering Hitler's fascination with film as a means to further the Nazi agenda. In this first English-language work to fully explore Hitler's influence on and relationship with film in Nazi Germany, the author calls on a broad array of archival sources. Niven also explores Hitler's representation in Third Reich cinema, personally and through films focusing on historical figures with whom he was associated

La KGB es una de las abreviaturas más famosas del siglo XX, y se ha convertido en sinónimo de las tenebrosas y a menudo violentas acciones de la policía secreta de la Unión Soviética y de las agencias de seguridad interna. De hecho, se utiliza a menudo para referirse a las agencias de seguridad del Estado Soviético a lo largo de su historia, desde la creación de la Checa (Comisión Extraordinaria) en 1917 hasta la eliminación oficial de la KGB en 1992.

Martin Luther is famous for the moment he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, yet the scope of his influence on the modern world is hardly limited to that one act. He emerged as a leader of the Reformation, coming onto the European scene at a time when modes of thought were changing, adapting from the medieval norm of reliance on authoritative sources such as Aristotle to modern ideas of discovering knowledge through textual interpretation, experience, and experimentation.

La historia de Alemania Oriental estuvo estrechamente ligada al desarrollo de sus servicios de seguridad, concretamente de la Stasi. En una época de países totalitarios dominados por agencias estatales represivas, la Stasi se destacaba por su tamaño y por la amplitud y profundidad de su vigilancia. Películas como Das Leben der Anderen (“La vida de los otros”) encapsulaban actitudes y concepciones posteriores a la unificación, tanto de la vida en Alemania Oriental como de las actividades de la Stasi.

The tank was first developed by the British and French during World War I as a means to break the deadlock on the Western Front. More so than any previous war, the balance of power lay with the defense, as machine guns, trenches, bunkers, barbed wire, and rapid-firing rifles all made frontal assaults on established positions prohibitively costly. In the closing months of the war, the tank partially evened up that balance, even as the war’s commanders initially proved unsure of how to use them.

"Lesen und an die Vergangenheit denken" - ein historischer Roman. Eingebunden in das dörfliche Leben auf einem Bauernhof um 1830, ist es der Erbrichter Karl Gotthilf Steiger, welcher das Dorf Nassau durch eine gegründete Genossenschaft zur Entfronung vom Kammergut Rechenberg-Bienenmühle führte. Seinen unbeugsamen Willen und umsichtigen Handeln ist es zu verdanken, dass er die hohe Kaufsumme von 34.000 Taler aus Bürgschaften von Begüterten zum Abkauf aufbringen konnte.

On September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) entered the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany, and took 11 Israeli athletes and team members hostage. After a lengthy standoff and a bungled rescue operation, all 11 were killed. While today, Israel is one of the most divisive political subjects across the world, the Munich Massacre and the Israeli operations in response all came about entirely because of the emotional power inherent in the Israeli-Arab conflict.

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the inter-war years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that, in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler.

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the inter-war years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler.

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the interwar years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler.