In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s' Germany. It tells the story of Emmeline, a wayward, young art student; Julius, an anxious, middle-aged art expert; and a mysterious art dealer named Rachmann who are at the heart of Weimar Berlin at its hedonistic, politically turbulent apogee and are whipped up into excitement over the surprising discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent van Gogh. Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions. Brilliant on authenticity, vanity and self-delusion, it is a novel for our times.
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• Berlin unter Hitler
• Die Wilhelmstrasse : das Zentrum der Macht
• Tiergarten
• Mitte : Östlich der Wilhelmstraße
• Der Westen : Charlottenburg, Westend, Gatow, Falkenhagener Feld
• Der Südwesten : Wilmersdorf, Schmargendorf, Grunewald, Dahlem, Zehlendorf, Nikolassee, Wannsee
• Der Süden : Schöneberg, Tempelhof, Mariendorf, Steglitz
• Der Osten : Friedrichshain, Niederschöneweide, Adlershof, Köpenick, Karlshorst
• Der Norden : Gesundbrunnen, Moabit, Charlottenburg-Nord, Oranienburg
• Anhang.

Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, this book uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace, particularly poorer women, on German domestic and even military policy during World War I. As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by "women of little means" broke out in the streets of Berlin and other German cities. These "street scenes" riveted public attention and drew urban populations together across class lines to make formidable, apparently unified demands on the German state. Imperial authorities responded in unprecedented fashion in the interests of beleaguered consumers, interceding actively in food distribution and production. But offcials' actions were much more effective in legitimating popular demands than in defending the state's right to rule. In the end, argues Davis, this dynamic fundamentally reformulated relations between state and society and contributed to the state's downfall in 1918.
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• Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1. Germany from Peace to War;
• 2. Bread, Cake, and Just Desserts;
• 3. Women of Lesser Means;
• 4. Battles over Butter;
• 5. One View of How Politics Worked in World War I Berlin;
• 6. A Food Dictatorship;
• 7. Soup, Stew, and Eating German;
• 8. Food for the Weak, Food for the Strong;
• 9. The End of Faith;
• 10. Germany from War to Peace?; Conclusion; Notes; Abbreviations; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, this book uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace, particularly poorer women, on German domestic and even military policy during World War I. As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by ""women of little means"" broke out in the streets of Berlin and other German cities. These ""street scenes"" riveted public attention and drew urban populations together across class lines to make formidable, apparently unified demands on the German state. Imperial authorities responded in unprecedented fashion in the interests of beleaguered consumers, interceding actively in food distribution and production. But offcials' actions were much more effective in legitimating popular demands than in defending the state's right to rule. In the end, argues Davis, this dynamic fundamentally reformulated relations between state and society and contributed to the state's downfall in 1918.
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• T.
• 1. Bürger und Soldaten :
• 1918
• T. 2., Bd.
• 1. Verratenes Volk ; Bd.
• 2. Heimkehr der Fronttruppen
• T.
• 3. Karl und Rosa.

Photographs of Hitler's architecture legacy in Berlin.

'My name is Knisch, Sascha Knisch, and six days ago my life was in perfect order.' So begins Aris Fioretos's elegant, hilarious novel, set in Berlin in the sweltering summer of 1928. Knisch, who works as a projectionist at the Apollo movie theatre, is a person with special sexual habits. One night, he sees the enigmatic Dora Wilms again. A week later, she is dead and Knisch is charged with murder. As he tries to clear his name, he discovers a scientific conspiracy and is drawn into the rich tangle of a story, in which nothing is as it seems. How can he prove what didn't happen? What goes on at the Foundation for Sexual Research? And why is it important to have testicles? A biological thriller set in the steamy underworlds of Weimar Berlin, "The Truth about Sascha Knisch" deals with the so-called 'sexual question', its lures and seductiveness, dangers and temptations, but also with the shrewd passion between two young people in a Germany at the brink of disaster. Above all, the novel is a declaration of love to imagination - clever, droll and stylish, couched in the form of a riddle and written with effortless elan by one of Europe's most exciting and entertaining new writers.
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