Sybille steinbacher biography of michaels
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Sybille Steinbacher: review of Michael Kater, Hitler Youth
MICHAEL KATER, Hitler ungdom (Cambridge, Mass.: Havard University Press, ), pp. ISBN 0 0. £ $ (hardback). German trans. Hitler-Jugend (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, ) Just as Günther Grass, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, struggled to find the right words to admit that during the Nazi period he had been a member of the Waffen-SS, so many of his generation find it difficult to confess what the Third Reich meant to them. No one knows better than Michael Kater just how much they, as youngsters, believed in the promises of the Nazi regime, even that of the ‘final victory’. In his overview with the simple title Hitler ungdom, written in an appealing style that is both concise and clear, the Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto looks at the generation which, born between and , literally grew into the National Socialist state. The author, an expert on the history of National Socialism, sets out to examine the collec
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Press releases – December
FRANKFURT. Helium atoms are loners. Only if they are cooled down to an extremely low temperature do they form a very weakly bound molecule. In so doing, they can keep a tremendous distance from each other thanks to the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect. As atomic physicists in Frankfurt have now been able to confirm, over 75 percent of the time they are so far apart that their bond can be explained only bygd the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect.
The binding energy in the helium molekyl amounts to only about a billionth of the binding energy in everyday molecules such as oxygen or nitrogen. In addition, the molecule is so huge that small viruses or sot particles could fly between the atoms. This is due, physicists explain, to the quantum-mechanical “tunnel effect”. They use a potential well to illustrate the bond in a conventional molecule. The atoms cannot move further away from each other than the “walls” of this well. However, in
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The Father I Always Knew, the Survivor I Finally Know Better | Jewish Book Council
Earlier this week, Survivors Club coauthor Debbie Bornstein Holinstat wrote about discovering the power of Jewish books in Ottumwa, Iowa. Debbie is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on The ProsenPeople.
If my father had his way, my last name would never have been Bornstein” It would have been Bourne or maybe Borns, he tells me, something far less obviously Jewish. Fortunately, like in all good Jewish marriages, my mom has final veto power. My surname didn’t change until the day I walked down the aisle and said, “I do.”
You might think it’s crazythat a man who survived the Auschwitz death camp as a four-year-old prisoner of war would decide as an adult in the safety of America, to hide his religion. Far from life in the Polish ghetto where he was born, my father in