collective memory

Opening with an introduction delineating the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, Nazi Germany continues on with chapters that explain how Nazism emerged as an ideology and a political movement; how Hitler and his party took power and remade the German state; and how the Nazi "national community" was organized around a radical and eventually lethal distinction between the "included" and the "excluded." Later chapters discuss the complex relationship between Nazism and Germany's religious faiths; the perverse economic rationality of the regime; the path to war laid down by Hitler's foreign policy; and the intricate and intimate intertwining of war and genocide. The volume concludes with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.

Discusses the Turkish government's, and the international community's, reluctance to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide that began in 1915, and chronicles the history of the denial of the massacres and battles between Turkey's lobbyists and Armenian-American activists over congressional genocide resolutions.

From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and killed 1.5 million of them. President Woodrow Wilson led a movement to help the Armenians but the genocide was lost in the focus on World War I and the flu pandemic and the Turks were never held accountable for their atrocities against the Armenians.

Provides a historical look at Paris, France and shows why it is considered to be such a unique and popular city.