A most dangerous book : Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich / Christopher B. Krebs.
- Format:
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
- Summary:
- Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.
- Contents:
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- The Roman conquest of the germanic myth
- Survival and rescue
- The birth of the German ancestors
- Formative years
- Heroes' songs
- The volk of free-spirited northerners
- White blood
- A bible for national socialists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
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- OCLC:
- 668194819
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