(Part 3) Reddit mentions: The best historical germany biographies

Initially, there were Wehrmacht foreign units (The Free Arabian Legion and Tiger Army were originally Wehrmacht formations) but all non-German fighting forces were later transferred to SS command. The fact that the Waffen-SS had MANY non-German units was actually something that appealed to some, since it felt more like the "crusade against bolshevism" that the party touted so heavily. Johann Voß, who served with the 6.SS Nord in Finland and France, even specifically mentions that he volunteered for the Waffen-SS BECAUSE it had many non-Germans despite being a German himself in his amazing memoir Black Edelweiß.

David McLellan's commentary/anthology, The Thought of Karl Marx is arguably the best short one volume approach to Marx.

> This text provides the basic elements necessary for a grasp of the range and complexity of Marx's ideas. The first half of the book is a chronological account of Marx's ideas with a miniumum of biographical and historical detail. The second half is thematic and provides a concise summary of Marx's position, and extracts from his key texts on alienation, historical materialism, labour, class, the party, the state, revolution and future Communist society.

McLellan also wrote the most widely read biography of Karl Marx, and an all-you-need anthology.

When you feel ready to start reading about Marxism (as opposed to the works and ideas of Karl Marx), McLellan has a good overview in Marxism after Marx.

It's a complex topic most don't bother to understand. Easier to categorise every German soldier including Waffen SS as "evil Nazi".

If you want to read some very interesting (and entertaining) first hand accounts of Waffen SS and what it was like to fight in their units, I recommend the following books (can be found and downloaded online):

• Black edelweiss by Johann Voss: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Edelweiss-Conscience-Soldier-Waffen-SS/dp/0966638980/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
  
  
• Campaign in Russia by Leon Degrelle:
  https://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Russia-Waffen-Eastern-Front/dp/B000ZD3A8Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502739053&sr=1-1&keywords=campaign+russia+degrelle
  
  Both of these guys especially the second (Degrelle) were Waffen SS who survived some of the craziest fronts and battle in the history of humanity on the Eastern Front (Kursk, Kharkov, etc).

I've been on that boat for years, hopefully this gets some attention.

This was a great read.

I read this book recently: http://www.amazon.ca/Albert-Speer-His-Battle-Truth/dp/0679768122

Kind of rambles, but a very interesting counter-point for anyone whose read Speer's work and wants to get another perspective on his life. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with him and others.

It's really complicated and really depends on where/who/when you are talking about. You should read some first-hand accounts and get a feel for it. I've been reading Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg for a college course. It's pretty good.

You could try:

http://www.amazon.com/Albert-Speer-Battle-With-Truth/dp/0394529154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375909051&sr=8-1&keywords=Albert+Speer%3A+His+Battle+with+Truth

This book is quite readable and I thought both interesting and enlightening. YMMV.

Any time I see Rostov-on-Don printed somewhere in the caption of a given photograph, I start looking for my friend Gunter!

I recommend this book to anybody intrigued by such photos.

EPIC LENGTH WARNING

One way terrible things can happen is for many people to take on small pieces of responsibility for making an evil thing happen. This is all hypothetical and blind guessing with no research into how this hospital happens to be run, so don't take it as analysis, but as a thought exercise, let's say that the hospital is owned by a corporation and the Board of Directors tell the CEO that his job is on the line if he doesn't reduce costs.

Does the CEO say "dump patients?" Does the board say, "CEO, dump patients?" No. The CEO says "Our corporate goal is a XX% reduction in the costs of treating uninsured patients across our network of hospitals."

The CFO now analyzes which facilities have the highest costs and through a chain of intermediaries, tells this facility in Vegas, "YOUR goal is a greater percentage cost reduction, because your costs are overrunning by more than the other facilities' costs do. You are to get this done, period, and it comes directly from the CEO."

The hospital director knows his job is in danger, so he gathers the staff and says, "We need you all to impress upon your teams that the cost of treating uninsured patients must be reduced dramatically. We will reward teams that reduce their cost overruns for uninsured patients." Nowhere in that meeting does he give more than a token mention to the hospital's code of ethics or the Hippocratic oath -- of course, it's a hospital, if you asked him he'd say it went without saying, but the managers hear, correctly, "Forget ethics, we MUST meet this goal or this facility may be closed as too costly."

The department heads go back and tell their teams, "Anyone who is running up big bills for uninsured patients is in danger of being placed on a Performance Improvement Plan. You need to be more cost-conscious. We're spending too much. Find ways to cut costs."

Then in this environment, an uninsured schizophrenic walks in the door for the 17th time off his medication and self-harming again. They know he has family in Iowa. They know the last time he came in, he ran up $35,000 in costs that were denied by Medicaid and were never recovered and written off. Night nurse looks at night doctor looks at night orderly looks at custodial staff, and somehow it's decided that they'll put him on a bus to Iowa, because everyone just got an ass-chewing about costs and someone's going to lose a job if a $35,000 bill that will never be paid gets run up tonight, and then who's supposed to care even for the patients who can pay?

The night staff say, "It wasn't our fault. We just did what we had to do to keep our jobs to keep providing patient care."

The department heads say, "It wasn't our fault. We just told them to watch the costs. We didn't tell them to dump patients."

The director says, "It wasn't my fault. I expected our department heads to explain that the cost-cutting goal wasn't an excuse to violate our Code of Ethics here."

The CFO says, "It wasn't my fault. I just crunched numbers and told them what numbers to hit. I'm just the math guy. I don't make the decisions as to how you hit numbers."

The CEO says, "It wasn't my fault. I just set an ambitious goal to deliver shareholder value by reducing cost overruns throughout our network of care facilities. That's what I'm here for. I'm very disappointed that facility made the decision it did."

The BoD says, "It's not our fault. We invested our own money in this corporation. We just want value for money. All we asked is that the CEO do what we hired him for, and get this business growing by reducing costs."

The President says, "It's not my fault. I tried the public option, and I had to trade it away to get anything at all, because insurers wouldn't budge."

The insurer says, "It's not our fault. We pushed for a national insurance mandate so we can cover every patient. It'll be in effect soon. There may be some continued challenges in delivery of care in the meantime."

The voters say, "It's not our fault. This is all too complicated to understand, and there's nothing we can do about the influence of money in politics. We can't afford higher taxes--we need to save and scrimp already in case we ever need health care, so we don't end up in that position."

And nobody takes responsibility, because nobody made the whole decision, and the person who looked a patient in the eyes and gave him a bus ticket instead of care sleeps soundly thinking they're just a victim of the system--and unfortunately, they're right, because even with a nationwide nursing shortage, the quickest way to lose your job as a healthcare provider is to take personal responsibility for patient outcomes, because that creates costs and liabilities to the hospital.

References/suggested reading:

On Killing

Black Edelweiss

The Sociopath Next Door

Confidence Men

Note that none of these are about the health care industry and only one is about politics at all. They're just about how people work and what kinds of people can do bad things.

and for the record I don't have any connection to any of the authors or publishers or anything similar

Uhm, both Hitler's secretary and his valet wrote books about their time with him (including his death). They are the main sources Der Untergang was based on.

Edit: Seems another one of his secretaries has also written a book, but the first one is better known.

Just finished Black Edelweiss not long ago. So this picture is extra interesting! It follows some SS GJ in the Lapland war & later their combat on the Western Front. Although, I'd assume the stuff against the American fighting units was toned down since he wrote it as a German POW in an American camp, still very interesting. Thanks for the upload.

yeah, hahaha. you know a lot about Marx. No, you don't. you only know what your corporate billionaire overlords want you to believe, overlords of which Peterson is just another tool.

Pick up a real Marx biography and get to actually read about him so you can see they've been feeding you bs all this time.

https://www.amazon.com/Karl-Marx-Biography-David-McLellan/dp/1403997306/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=marx+biography&qid=1551146929&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Poilu is another remarkable WWI memoir, written by barrelmaker Louis Barthas. The Kaiser's Reluctant Conscript is also good; Dominik Richard was a man from Alsace (one of the regions seized from France in 1871) drafted into the German army (and not very happy about it).

Books seen from the german perspective

• Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
  
• Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
  
• Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front 1941-43
  
• Twilight of the Gods: A Swedish Volunteer in the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division on the Eastern Front
  
• Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer
  
• Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
  
  Books seen from the russian perspective
  
  
• Red Road from Stalingrad: Reflections of a Soviet Infantryman
  
• T-34 in Action
  
• Panzer Destroyer: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander
  
• Guns Against the Reich: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front
  
  Much more good books to find, but then its gonna be a very long list, lets first see how you guys like the books above

You would probably enjoy this one. It's more of a literized bio based on his life and very readable. Otherwise, this one will give you a lot of historical context for who Maimonides was.

Depends on how you define formal, in diplomatic settings and academic/scientific discussions it was common until French became popular during the Enlightenment

When Athanasius Kircher met with Nicholas Calude Fabri de Peirsec in the 1630s they probably spoken to each other in Latin.
Source: John Glassie A Man of Misconceptions:The Life of an Eccentric in an age of Change

Also the Irish Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley is believed to have conversed with Queen Elizabeth I in Latin when they met in 1593

Tigers in the mud is the first hand account of Otto Carius and his experiences, mostly revolving around his usage of the Tiger tank. It is no foot solder, how ever, but he was one of the big tank aces during the war and he did survive through it.

Black Edelweiss is the biography of a young german Waffen-SS soldier. It is written by a Johan Voss, which is a pseudonym so I can't comment on it's credibility. How ever I have not seen any reviews that dismiss it as fiction as of yet.

Hope that was helpful.

Check the content table for these books. We might be able to suggest others if you are more specific...

• The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
  
  
• Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music
  
  
• Romanticism: An Oxford Guide
  
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• Nineteenth-Century Music
  
  
• The Romantic Generation
  
  
• Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms
  
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• Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music
  
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• Writings of German Composers: Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Weill, and others
  
  

• Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings
  
  

After a short search I found this: https://www.amazon.com/Hesse-Mann-Letters-Correspondence-1910-1955-Rediscovered/dp/1934978868 Don´t know I they are complete. Hesse also wrote great letters with the austrian author Stefan Zweig, but unfortunally I can´t find a translation.

The state requiring identification for people to move in public has been so closely associated with authoritarian regimes because regulating and monitoring people is central and essential to an authoritarian regime. Papers, secret police, party oversight of private citizens, etc. not only provide information to the state that allows it to apply traditional forces to citizens, but the very act of imposing these things creates a effect that limits how people act in daily life regardless of whether they are being specifically targeted by state agencies.

That is why we don't require people to carry ID except in some specific situations.

You need to read some history of authoritarian regimes. I suggest The File for starters. It's the memoir of a journalist who, after the Wall fell, got into his Stasi file. He recounts his experiences living in East Berlin in the 70s and 80s, and tries to interview those that informed on him.

If you're looking for a German soldier perspective Blood Red Snow by Günter K. Koschorrek and Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942 by Russ Schneider

Well, I'm going to have to go with [this guy who, was actually there] (http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Destruction-The-Hermann-Rauschning/dp/1589801369).

Haven't read any, but found this list on Amazon that has several suggestions:
http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-World-War-Two-Books/lm/3MRM9XL0L3F8A
another:
http://www.amazon.com/Flew-Fuhrer-Cassell-Military-Paperbacks/dp/0304366382/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301177998&sr=8-1

Artem Drabkin "T-34 in Action",

Artem Drabkin "Red Army Infantrymen Remember the Great Patriotic War: A Collection of Interviews with 16 Soviet WW-2 Veterans"

Artem Drabkin, Alexei Isaev"Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes: The First Twenty-Four Hours"

or cheap as chips for Panzer Ace - from Barbarossa to Normandy https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panzer-Ace-Commander-Barbarossa-Normandy-ebook/dp/B079XWSBNK from amazon

For a brief overview of all things Modern Europe, I'd go with this. It covers from the 1400's onward.

Bismarck, Life and Times if you want something for just Bismarck.

Europe and the Making of Modernity covers events from 1815-1914.

Nineteenth-Century Europe A Cultural History for the overview of the century from a different perspective.

And Nationalism in Europe for the more Imperial aspects of the century.

This is of genuine historical value. Publish it pseudononymously, like Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS.

My wife is German and a native speaker; her father was conscripted into the Luftwaffe at age 15 near the end of the war. If you're interested in translating it, let us know.

Give this a read: http://www.amazon.ca/Black-Edelweiss-Conscience-Soldier-Waffen-Ss/dp/0966638980/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412384409&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=ss+conscience+soldier+german+wwii

a book : http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0760321981/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1418522034&sr=1-26

You can't hit what you can't see and considering most of these flew at night and shooting at them only revealed your position, so as to get you bombed by it.

Source: Blood Red Snow

Is this it?

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0760321981/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1376439664&sr=8-3&keywords=red+snow

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gZyXIwBmL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

mie beletristica nu prea imi place asa ca merg cu ceva autobiografic scris chiar de soldati de pe vremea aia ex 1 2 3 4

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0760321981

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Edelweiss-Conscience-Soldier-Waffen-SS/dp/0966638980

You should read this. It's about the SS mountain troops fighting in Finland, would've been close to the same areas as your grandfather.

Is this considered part of Karelia? I read a book, Black Edelweiss, about an SS guy who spent most of WW2 fighting the Soviets in Karelia along with allied Finns. I've never seen footage from the area.

Absolutely serious. You can go ahead and read any memoirs from soldiers who survived the Battle of Berlin. Stalin encouraged the Russians to exact revenge on Germany. He demanded they remember all the atrocities they saw committed unto dead Soviets during the push across Eastern Europe and into Germany, and then go pay back the Germans for that. That shit didn't happen in the west.

In all of these memoirs, they note how different the Americans were. They note how the Americans didn't rape like the Soviets, nor did they torture like the Soviets.

Since I know you're just gonna reply with something you painfully think to be witty, I'll search for you. Here's a favorite of mine, Blood Red Snow by Gunter Koschorrek. https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0760321981

If you're gonna suck Nazi dick, at least read one fucking book written by your kkkomrades.