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        1989

        Elsass

        Ein Reisebuch in den Alltag. (Anders reisen)

        by Beckmann, Dagmar; Strauch, Ulrike

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        September 2004

        Elsass

        Wo der Zander am liebsten im Riesling schwimmt. Oasen für die Sinne

        by Cronenburg, Petra van

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        September 2019

        Tödliches Elsass

        Kreydenweiss & Bato ermitteln

        by Jules Vitrac

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        August 2016

        Mord im Elsass

        Kreydenweiss & Bato ermitteln

        by Vitrac, Jules

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        Forestry & related industries
        February 2011

        Innovation in Forestry

        Territorial and Value Chain Relationships

        by Kadri Ukrainski, Américo M. S. Carvalho Mendes, Diana Feliciano, Thomas Rimmler, Peter Elsasser, Anne Matilainen, Tomas Nord, Erlend Nybakk, Laura Bouriaud, Filip Aggestam, Daria Maso. Edited by Gerhard Weiss, Davide Pettenella, Pekka Ollonqvist, Bill Slee.

        Innovation is increasingly recognised as a key factor in environmental protection and balanced sustainable development within the forestry sector. This volume provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for the analysis of innovation processes and policies in a traditional, rural sector as well as presenting empirical analyses of innovation processes from major innovation areas. Territorial services of the forest sector are examined, including various types of forest ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration or recreation and wood value chains, including timber frame construction and bioenergy.

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        Last Paths to Freedom. French Girl Guides in resistance to Nazi Germany

        by Thomas Seiterich

        Summer 1940. Nazi Germany annexes Alsace, but not without resistance: in the Catholic parish of St. Jean, very close to the Great Synagogue, six French Girl Guides opened an underground border crossing for opponents of the regime, Jews, Communists and the military. They explored and found secret routes across the Vosges to the west, and south to Switzerland. By the time the Gestapo picked them up in 1942, they had brought around 500 people to safety. Freisler tried them in 1943 and sentenced six of them to death by guillotine. Pope Pius XII demanded that the women be spared. And Hitler did indeed pardon them – with the proviso that they were not allowed to know. They all survived.

      • August 2016

        Bühlerhöhe

        by Glaser, Brigitte

        In 1952, Rosa Silbermann is sent on a secret mission to the exclusive Bühlerhöhe Hotel in the Black Forest. As a Jew she emigrated from Cologne to Palestine in the 1930s, and is now working for the Israeli Secret Service. However, she soon finds she is up against the mistrustful hotel housekeeper, Sophie Reisacher, who was forced to leave Alsace in 1945 and is now looking for a chance to climb the social ladder. Both women know what it feels like to live in a country that wants to reinvent itself. And neither of them trusts the tranquillity of the Black Forest countryside. They both know about a planned assassination attempt on Chancellor Adenauer, and yet the two women are sticking to their own plans. Bühlerhöhe is about two women in a man’s world, where the things that matter are power, business deals, and the old boys’ network – and, ultimately, the struggle for life or death.

      • The Franco-Prussian War

        by Stephen Badsey

        Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this concise study examines the Franco-Prussian war, a significant conflict which led to the collapse of the Second Empire and the creation of a unified Germany. The Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 when Otto von Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. This was part of his wider political strategy of uniting Prussia with the southern German states, excluding Austria. In this book, Dr Stephen Badsey examines the build-up, battles, and impact of the war, which was an overwhelming Prussian victory with massive consequences. The French Second Empire collapsed, Napoleon III became an exile in Britain, and King Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the new united Germany. In the peace settlement with the French Third Republic in 1871 Germany gained the eastern French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, areas that were to provide a bone of contention for years to come.

      • Virus ou la mort des oiseaux

        by Dominique Persoons

        En sortant de l’hôpital, le docteur Bernard Petersen buta sur un grand corbeau. La taille de l’animal l’impressionna. Il remarqua l’humidité de son plumage et le filet de sang qui s’échappait de son énorme bec. La pensée lui vint que cet oiseau mort n’était pas à sa place et il revint sur ses pas pour avertir la réceptionniste qui rédigea aussitôt une fiche et appela le gardien pour qu’il enlève la carcasse. C’est à partir de ce moment-là que des événements inattendus vinrent troubler la quiétude de la petite ville de Saverne. Si les cigognes venaient à convulser en battant des ailes et que des cadavres de canards étaient emportés en longues files par les rivières et les canaux, alors un grand malheur endeuillerait à nouveau l’Alsace et la Lorraine. Personne n’imaginait que le fléau frapperait tous les habitants du pays et que l’envahisseur était dix mille fois plus petit qu’un cheveu. L’humanité est mise à l’épreuve. Et si la nature reprenait ses droits ? Par ce récit haletant, Dominique Persoons nous livre des réflexions essentielles sur la société, sur les rapports humains et sur la nature.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2023

        PERISCOPING WAR AND PEACE ON THE DIPLOMATIC CHESS BOARD

        by Korieocha Emmanuel Uwaozuruonye

        This compendium strives to confront the teething problems faced by students of international politics in respect of the complex issues of war and peace. This exercise is a deliberate attempt designed to unravel the tremor and illusion associated with the subject matter, to the benefit of the student. The target readerships of this book are students of history, international and diplomatic studies, political science, military science, strategic studies and sociology.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2019

        Resistance and practices of rebellion at the age of Reformations (16th-18th centuries)

        by Rocío G. Sumillera, Manuela Águeda García-Garrido, José Luis Martínez-Dueñas

        The chapters in this volume examine various understandings of theories of political resistance and obedience on the part of myriad authors, Catholic as well as Protestant, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They consider how the Reformation spurred reflections on the concept of resistance, pondering over the circumstances that would call for resistance and that would sanction it, and the agents who could legitimately initiate and manage the deposition of political, religious and royal authorities. From sixteenth-century Spanish readings of the Reformation, to different episodes of active resistance through France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, to the experience of religious exiles in the English colonies in North America, this volume provides an illustrative sample of case studies on, on the one hand, processes of construction of the rhetoric of resistance, and, on the other, instances of actual uprisings.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2018

        Danube Swabians

        German Settlers in Southeast Europe

        by Gerhard Seewann, Michael Portmann

        In the 18th century, ships regularly sailed downstream from German Danube ports. People who promised themselves a better future in Southeastern Europe allowed themselves to be embarked. Most of them came from the southwestern countries of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Their destination was the Kingdom of Hungary, where after liberation from Turkish occupation manpower was needed. The immigrants were called “Swabians” regardless of their origin. They were economically successful and left their mark on large areas of the country. After 1918 these groups, now called “Danube Swabians”, belonged to three different states: Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Starting in 1944, hundreds of thousands lost their homes and thousands their lives through flight, expulsion, persecution and deportation. The majority of the uprooted found refuge in southern Germany. Only the Swabians in Romania and a part of the Hungarian Germans were allowed to stay. Many of them came to Germany as late repatriates, the remaining ones today form active German minorities in their home countries.

      • March 2020

        Dobrudja

        German Settlers between the Danube and the Black Sea

        by Josef Sallanz

        The historical region between the Danube delta and the mountainous landscape Ludogorie today is structured as a result of the demarcation of 1940 which divided the region into the North Dobrudja in Romania and the South Dobrudja in Bulgaria. Since ancient times, people have roamed the steppes at the Black Sea towards the south and left a mixture of languages, denominations and everyday culture. From the 7th century BC Greek sailors founded trading colonies on the coast such as Tomis, the present day Constanta, Romanian Constanţa. After 500 years under Ottoman rule in the middle of the 19th century the first Germans came from Bessarabia, bordering the Danube to the north, from the governorate Kherson, from Poland, Volhynia, Galicia and the Caucasus. Reasons were land scarcity, loss of privileges and a intensified russification policy. Today in the Dobrudja live Tatars, Bulgarians, Turks, Lipovans, Ukrainians, Greeks, Germans and Roma next to more than ninety percent Romanians. The historian Josef Sallanz shows which cultural traditions still today shape the region.

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