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Thomas Weyr

Auteur de The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler

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$ (1) 000 Jews through murder (1) 1939-1945 (1) 2013 (2) 9780842025133 (1) Adolf Hitler (3) Allemagne (2) and deportation. Vienna never regained the global role the city had once played. Today (1) and the many who merely (1) Autriche (7) Creemore Barn library (1) DJ (1) HC (1) he called the city "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical (1) Histoire (9) Histoire autrichienne (4) Histoire du monde (1) in the local phrase (1) jews of austria (1) maybe someday I'll go visit John C (1) Messner (2) Nazis (3) Nazisme (2) only the monuments remain--beautiful but lifeless. This is not only the story of Nazi leaders but of how the Viennese themselves lived and died: those who embraced Hitler (1) plus extensive documentary research (1) Pour enfants (1) Pour jeunes adultes (1) Right Alcove (1) S: Contemporary Austria (1) Seconde Guerre mondiale (12) those who resisted (1) to craft a vivid historical narrative that chillingly captures how a once-great city lost its soul under Hitler. (1) Troisième reich (3) Vienne (6) we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik; proconsuls like Joseph Buerckel (1) Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a rich Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200 (1) Weyr concludes (1) who dreamed of making Vienna into a Nazi capital on the Danube--and failed miserably. More painfully (1) World War II -- Occupied Territory (1) XXe siècle (2)
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The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler par Thomas Weyr
Solid and interesting account of life under the Nazi regime in Vienna; the book mostly focuses on the 1938-1945 era. There is one long (and not hugely interesting) digression to the late Imperial era, which I suppose has some justification for background, but it does tend to slow up and interrupt the book. The other parts of it, though, are interesting, the more so since the author (a refugee himself) saw some of the events first-hand.
 
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EricCostello | 1 autre critique | Jan 1, 2022 |
The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler par Thomas Weyr
4082 The Setting of the Pearl Vienna Under Hitler, by Thomas Weyr (read 13 Oct 2005) This is a 2005 book by a man born in Vienna who left there at age 11, returned there to get his Ph.D after World War Two, and then was a reporter. He tells of Hitler's takeover of Austria in good detail, and then relates the story of Vienna during the war, some of which account was not too interesting, though I think his research is well-done. The city was far too accepting of Nazis, probably due to the strong anti-Semitism there (that is where Hitler got his stupid ideas). Since the war Austria has exaggerated its resistance to Hitler, and Vienna has not regained the proud place in the world's cities it had before the war. This is a good book but not as interesting as I had hoped.… (plus d'informations)
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6
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