The setting of the pearl : Vienna under Hitler /
When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city ""a pearl to which he would give a proper setting."" But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland. Here is a grippin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938
- The state nobody wanted: from St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938
- Bürckel takes charge: from Plebiscite to peace at Easter: March 15-April 25, 1938
- To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938
- The lost city: Vienna's golden autumn: 1867-1938
- From Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939
- Decline and fall: from Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 1940
- Vienna's second chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 1943
- Prelude to disaster: Schirach loses control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944
- The last year: destruction from the sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945
- The battle for Vienna: death and transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945
- The new shape of the pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004.