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A most dangerous book : Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich / Christopher B. Krebs.

Van Pelt Library PA6706.G4 K736 2011
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Author/Creator:
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:
  • 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:
  • 9780393062656
  • 0393062651
OCLC:
668194819

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