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German Directory
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- 11 visitors recommend:
The Hell Gate
Source: NewYorkHistory.info
Author: William Kornblum
City: New York, State: NY
- This chapter from William Kornblum's "At Sea in the City" recounts stories from the East River passage known as "Hell Gate," including the horrible 1904 burning of the ferry General Slocum which took the lives of 1,000 German-Americans.
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- 12 visitors recommend:
Berlin 1936: The Nazi Olympics
Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- An online exhibit about the role of sport in Nazi Germany, the debate around participating in (and thereby endorsing) the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the games themselves, the treatment of African-American and Jewish athletes, and the aftermath.
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Axis History Factbook
Source: Marcus Wendel
- A very, very well done information site on Nazi Germany. It includes thousands of facts and images and they're all well organized and presented. One of the best World War II era history sites we've ever seen.
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- 10 visitors recommend:
Scorpio's Site: Battle of the Huertgen Forest
Source: Scorpio
City: Huertgen Forest, Country: Germany
- Website about the Battle of the Huertgen Forest, with history overview, veteran accounts, stories, images, timeline and interactive map.
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- 8 visitors recommend:
Gustav Klimt
Source: Interesting.com
- Art prints and links for Austrian Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt. Send a free e-card with his painting, The Kiss.
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- 7 visitors recommend:
SS Panzer Division Reenactors
Source: World War II Living History Association
Author: Harry Coombs
E-mail: Harry@frundsberg10.com
- WWII German reenactors who set up displays for various organizations and educational institutions and participate in tactical reenactments of WWII.
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- 3 visitors recommend:
Olympic Games 1936 art print
Source: AllPosters
- An inexpensive 11 in. x 14 in. reproduction of an advertisement for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
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- 4 visitors recommend:
With Our Backs to Berlin
Source: Sutton Publishing
Author: Tony LeTissier
- "Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days as armies closed in from all sides. LeTissier's interviews link the brutality of combat with the humanity of the desperate battles." (May 2001)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat In the East, 1944
Source: Praeger Publishers
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
- "Mitcham chronicles the crushing German defeats that ensued during the final months of the war." (September 2001)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
The U-Boat Wars
Source: Cooper Square Press
Author: Edwin P. Hoyt
- "The U-Boat Wars is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of Germany's submarine fleet in World War II. Four months into the war U-boats had sunk one-third of the British battleships; six months after America's entry half the United States' total tonnage lay on the ocean floor. Yet, by the war's end, three-quarters of the U-boat crews had been slain." (April 2002)
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