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Heldentod: The Nazi Culture of Death
Heldentod - The Nazi Culture of Death graphically focuses on the Third Reich's conception and promotion of the "Hero's Death" as it fostered and then fuelled a cataclysm of apocalyptic carnage and destruction. This underlying driving force, ultimately self-destructive, is shown infusing both State sponsored propaganda and echoed by the personal battlefield images captured by its soldiers' personal cameras. In so doing it confronts the matter of subject vs. observer and their intimate connection. The original, often one-of-a-kind and never before seen photos also serve as a searing documentation of man's inhumanity to man and a stark warning to future generations.
808 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 17, 2021
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July 2, 2026
New Perspective
A richly detailed book that takes you down the Nazi rabbit hole. Using pictures from private collections we walk in the shoes of both perpetrators and victims. The chilling realisation that profoundly evil acts can be carried out by ordinary people sometimes makes reading the horrible things done to the innocent victims of the Nazi’s difficult but necessary to read.
A richly detailed book that takes you down the Nazi rabbit hole. Using pictures from private collections we walk in the shoes of both perpetrators and victims. The chilling realisation that profoundly evil acts can be carried out by ordinary people sometimes makes reading the horrible things done to the innocent victims of the Nazi’s difficult but necessary to read.
March 8, 2026
Should one shed tears of mirth or anger? So much senseless waste of Europeans.
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