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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 579 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
    • By: Helmut Walser Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past....

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    • From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: James Hawes
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871....

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    • Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
    • By: Anna Funder
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • A prize-winning and powerfully moving account of the resistance against East Germany’s communist dictatorship - and of those who worked for East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
    • By: Katja Hoyer
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • In this vivid 50-year history of Germany from 1871-1918 - which inspired events that forever changed the European continent - is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War....

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    • The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
    • By: James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Dawn on Sunday, June 22, 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle....

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    • The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
    • By: Thomas Harding
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justice....

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    • The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
    • By: Otto Carius
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 934 ratings
    • World War II began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer....

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    • The German Perspective
    • By: Peter Margaritis
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness....

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    • The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
    • By: Günter K. Koschorrek
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,375 ratings
    • Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, over five decades later, the fulfillment of a responsibility he feels to honor the memory of those who perished....

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    • Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler
    • By: Tobias Straumann
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In 1931, Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party....

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    • In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
    • By: Simon Winder
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Propelled by a wish to reclaim the varied German civilization that the Nazis ruined, and that many have worked to rebuild, Germania was recorded to enlighten us on serious topics, curiosities, and on the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape....

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    • When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
    • By: Stephen Harding
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 477 ratings
    • May 1945. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission....

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    • Germans in the Waning Years of World War II
    • By: Alexandra Lohse
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Prevail Until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich....

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    • The Outsider as Insider
    • By: Peter Gay
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s....

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    • The German Army in the Third Reich
    • By: Ben H. Shepherd
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture....

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    • A Military History
    • By: Dennis Showalter
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war....

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    • A Captivating Guide to German History, Starting from 1871 through the First World War, Weimar Republic, and World War II to the Present
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Germany is one of the richest and most influential countries in the world, which is amazing when you consider that the nation is only about the size of the US states of Oregon and Washington combined. It’s even more astounding when you consider that at the end of World War II....

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    • By: Guy Sajer
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,412 ratings
    • When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia....

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