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(0)Giles MacDonogh
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The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War.
When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, denied access to any foreign aid, Germany...
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Piet and soldier, misanthrope and philosopher, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But, as a patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great cities, matching his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.
Though history remembers Frederick as a "Potsdam Fuhrer,"...
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