Author: Joseph CassidyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610052719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Donation Badges, Pins and Pendants of the Third Reich
Author: Joseph CassidyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610052719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
German Donation Badges, Pins and Pendants
Author: Joseph CassidyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781665304788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book catalogs over 1,200 different items given for charitable donations to 17 different groups within Germany from 1933 to 1945. These items are displayed in over 1,150 color pictures. The items represented in this book fall into two major categories. The first category includes items from organizations other than the Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes (WHW). The second category includes items given out in the name of the WHW by surrogate groups. These groups and the number of items cataloged are: Non-WHW organizations: - Deutsche Jugendherbergwerk (DJH): German Youth Hostels - Deutsches Luftsportverband (DLV) - Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK): German Red Cross - Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA) - Bergwacht: Mountain Rescue - Caritas - Deutscher - Flottenverband - Erntedankfest - Hitler Jugend Plastic Athletes - Innere Mission - Mutter und Kind - Reichsmütterdienst - Reichsluftschutzbund - Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge Surrogate groups: - Opferschiessen für das WHW - Tag der Deutschen Polizei für das Winterhilfswerk (TdP): German Police Day for the WHW - Tag der Wehrmacht für das Winterhilfswerk (TdW): Armed Forces Day for the WHW The tokens distributed by the organizations in both categories often are identified by buyers and sellers as WHW items, so these items often are generically referred to as WHWs. This book does not cover the WHW National or Gau collections unless these National or Gau items fall into the surrogate group category. The National WHW items can be found in "Winterhilfswerk National Street Collections and More: A Collector's Guide."
Carpenter
Author: Amber
Author: Rachel KingPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145929
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Spanning centuries and continents, a beautifully illustrated history of humanity’s enduring enthrallment with a seemingly banal substance: petrified tree sap, or amber. Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity is a history of human engagement with amber across three millennia. The book vividly describes our conceptions, stories, and political and scholarly disputes about amber, as well as issues of national and personal identity, religion, art, literature, music, and science. Rachel King rewrites amber’s history for the twenty-first century, tackling thorny ethical and moral questions regarding humanity’s relationship with amber in the past, as well our connection with it today. With the Earth facing unprecedented challenges, amber—the natural time capsule, and preserver of key information about the planet’s evolutional history—promises to offer invaluable insights into what comes next.
Carpenter
Author: Peter James McGuirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpenters
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
German Tinnie Collecting
Author: Joseph CassidyPublisher: Mountain Arbor Press
ISBN: 9781631835544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Carpenter
Author: You Name It, Formerly The Record
Author: Girls Friendly SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Baltimore Sabotage Cell
Author: Dwight R MessimerPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612518699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. Th e solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade. But if Germany could build a fleet of cargo U-boats that were large enough to carry meaningful loads and had the range to make a round trip between Germany and the United States without refueling, the blockade might be successfully broken. Since the German navy could not cut Britain’s supply line to America, another answer lay in sabotaging munitions factories, depots, and ships, as well as infecting horses and mules at the western end of the supply line. German agents, with American sympathizers, successfully carried out more than fifty attacks involving fires and explosions and spread anthrax and glanders on the East Coast before America’s entry into the war on 6 April 1917. Breaking the blockade with a fleet of cargo U-boats provided the lowest risk of drawing America into the war; at the same time, sabotage was incompatible with Germany’s diplomatic goal of keeping the United States out of the war. The two solutions were very different, but the fact that both campaigns were run by intelligence agencies—the Etappendienst (navy) and the Geheimdienst (army), through the agency of one man, Paul Hilken, in one American city, Baltimore, make them inseparable. Those solutions created the dichotomy that produced the U-boat Deutschland and the Baltimore Sabotage Cell. Here, Messimer provides the first study of the degree to which U.S. citizens were enlisted in Germany’s sabotage operations and debunks many myths that surround the Deutschland.
Alcatraz, the Prison
Author: Jay StullerPublisher: Golden Gate National Parks Association
ISBN: 9781883869359
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
In words and photographs, this book captures the most famous -- or infamous -- aspect of the island's history, its years as a maximum-security federal penitentiary. Called variously "Uncle Sam's Devil's Island, " "Hellcatraz, " and other fearsome names, Alcatraz had a reputation among convicts as the prison of last resort.