Sozialgeschichte

Una giovane donna alla ricerca delle proprie radici che affondano nel periodo e nel luogo più complessi del Novecento: la Germania hitleriana. Nora Krug setaccia archivi, colleziona foto, scova cimeli, rievoca memorie per ricostruire le vicende della sua famiglia e comprendere che ruolo essa abbia avuto durante il Nazismo. Il risultato, poetico e commovente, è una graphic novel di rara potenza immaginifica che si interroga su un senso di colpa collettivo che non accenna a disperdersi.

Ringheftung

Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. ” -- Jewish WeekDeborah Lipstadt, author of the groundbreaking Denying the Holocaust, chronicles her six-year legal battle with controversial British World War II historian David Irving that culminated in a sensational 2000 trial in LondonIn her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative World War II historian David Irving “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial”, a conclusion that she reached by examining his cunning manipulations of evidence, partisanship to Hitler, persistent exoneration of the Third Reich, and his confirmed celebrity among swelling ranks of anti-Semitic organizations internationally. In 1994, Irving filed a libel lawsuit, not in the U.S. courtroom—where the onus of proof lies on the plaintiff, but in the UK—where the onus of proof lies on the defendant. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians, but the record of history itself.The four-month trial took place in London in 2000 and drew international attention. With the help of a first-rate team of solicitors and historians and the support of her UK publisher, Penguin, Lipstadt won, her victory proclaimed on the front page of major newspapers around the world. Part history, part real life courtroom drama, Denial is Lipstadt’s riveting, blow-by-blow account of the trial that tested the standards of historical and judicial truths and resulted in a formal denunciation of the infamous Holocaust denier.Originally published as History on Trial.

Werner Paravicini widmet sich in seiner Kulturgeschichte der höfischen Oberschicht des 12. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Fürsten, Adel und Ritterschaft fasst er dabei in ihren gesamten geistigen und praktischen Lebensformen. In einem ausführlichen Nachtrag über die Schwerpunkte der seit 1994 zu verzeichnenden Forschung hat er sein Handbuch auf aktuellen Stand gebracht. "Somit bietet das interessante Werk einen hervorragenden Überblick über die Denkart einer Zeit, die wohl immer einen geradezu mystischen Reiz auf den modernen Menschen ausüben wird. Als Buch der Oldenbourg-Reihe nur zu empfehlen!" (Der Geschichtsschreiber)