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Free Download Constantin Vayenas, "Der, Die, Das: The Secrets of German Gender"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 3952481009 | PDF | pages: 146 | 10.2 mb
The challenge that English-language speakers face if they want to speak German well, is to accurately map German nouns to one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. Native German speakers acquire their knowledge of the grammatical gender of German nouns from early on. They are not given formal instruction at school about matching nouns to their correct gender, and the topic is not covered in standard German grammar books. For the same reason, native speakers who give German language lessons to foreigners do not teach their students how to match nouns to their gender: One cannot teach what one has not been taught.This book fills that gap in that it explains, in plain English, the principles that map German nouns to a specific gender. This allows foreign students of German to unlock the gender of entire categories of nouns, thereby enabling students to speak German more confidently.

Free Download Chris McNab, "Hitler’s Armies: A History of the German War Machine, 1939-45"
English | 2011 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 1849089167 | EPUB | 80,1 mb
The definitive work on Hitler’s war machine charting its evolution from the formidable force which won stunning victories during the Blitzkrieg in 1940, to the hard campaigns it fought in the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastelands of the Soviet Union to the eventual retreat to the Fatherland itself. Drawing upon Osprey Publishing’s unique archive, this volume expertly weaves together the story of the development and deployment of Hitler’s armies displayed alongside a stunning collection of original artwork and photographs to show the kit and equipment of the various land forces.

Free Download Contemporary German legal philosophy By James E. Herget
1996 | 163 Pages | ISBN: 0812215915 | PDF | 9 MB
James Herget explains to American legal scholars and students the main points of the characteristic legal philosophy that has developed in the German-speaking world since World War II. After a historical introduction and overview, he discusses critical rationalism, discourse theory, rhetorical theory, systems theory, and institutional legal positivism. He concludes with a general assessment and appends biographical information.Written for American legal scholars and students, who traditionally are exposed only to filtered versions of comparative legal traditions, this volume introduces a new world of legal theory that resonates within the context of other contemporary disciplines and German intellectual history.

Free Download Daniela Richter, "The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century"
English | ISBN: 1443897663 | 2016 | 270 pages | PDF | 1106 KB
The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, increased literacy among the middle and lower classes had resulted in a greater demand for reading material aimed at a general audience. Because of its educational and entertaining characteristics, the historical novel quickly became a dominant genre among other forms of popular literature. To this day, it constitutes a major sector on the German book market and is, together with popular TV series, documentaries, and museum exhibits, an important part of German Geschichtskultur. This collection of essays looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the development of the genre in Germany from the late eighteenth century to the present, and gives insights into the novels political and socio-cultural implications. The articles investigate historical novels from writers such as Benedikte Naubert, the mother of German historical fiction, nineteenth-century popular writers Georg Ebers and Hermann Sudermann, modern writers such as Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, and Hermann Broch, post-Wende works such as those by Thomas Brussig, Christa Wolf, and Ingo Schulze, and contemporary historical fiction by Sabine Weigand, Eveline Hasler and Petra Durst-Benning.

Free Download Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany by D. Clarke, U. Wölfel
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0230275508 | 322 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future.

Free Download From Nazism to Communism: German Schoolteachers under Two Dictatorships by Charles B. Lansing
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0674050533 | 320 Pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Tracing teachers’ experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, Charles Lansing analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships.

Free Download The German Invasions of France during the World Wars: The History of Germany’s Campaigns in World War I and World War II (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868713132 | 2023 | 2 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
If trench warfare was an inevitability during the war, it is only because the events leading up to the First Battle of the Marne were quite different. The armies at the beginning of the war moved quickly through the land, but the First Battle of the Marne devolved into a bloody pitched battle that led to the construction of trenches after the Germans retreated, blocked in their pursuit of Paris. When the aftermath disintegrated into a war between trenches, some Germans thought they had the upper hand since they were occupying French territory, but with fewer soldiers than the combined Allied nations and fewer resources and supplies, it was possibly only a matter of time before they were ultimately defeated. The commander of the German armies, General Helmuth von Moltke, allegedly said to Kaiser Wilhelm II immediately after the First Battle of the Marne, "Your Majesty, we have lost the war."

Free Download Elisabeth Krimmer, "Gender and German Colonialism "
English | ISBN: 1032458550 | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism.

Free Download Robert E. Witter – Chain Dogs: The German Army Military Police of World War II
Pictorial Histories Publishing | 1994 | ISBN: 0929521862 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 66.48 MB
This book points out that there are few references regarding the German WWII military police and explains some of the reasons for the scarcity. The book is a great starting point for someone researching this part of history. It has a lot of information that piques the reader’s interest and encourages greater study.

Free Download The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939
by Steven Mark Lowenstein
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0BQLLMHH7 | 764 Pages | True ePUB | 69 MB