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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Swiss Nazis, Swiss Neo-Nazis, Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, Armin Mohler, Franz Burri, Ernst Leonhardt, Arthur Fonjallaz, Jakob Schaffner, Georges Oltramare, Emil Sonderegger, Hans Oehler. Excerpt: Gaston-Armand "Guy" Amaudruz (born December 21, 1920 in Lausanne) is a Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher and Holocaust denier. Initially a supporter of the Swiss fascist movement of Arthur Fonjallaz, he came to wider attention in 1949 when he published Ubu Justicier au Premier Procès de Nuremberg, one of the first works to question the veracity of the Holocaust. Increasingly active in neo-fascism, he organized conferences in Malmö in 1951 which led to the formation of a pan-European nationalist group known as the European Social Movement and then led the more radical splinter group known as the New European Order later that year. This group sought the creation of a new Rome-Berlin Axis to unite Europe against capitalism and communism and in January 1953 set up a European Liaison Office under Amaudruz in Lausanne to co-ordinate the work of affiliated groups. He also came an early member of the Volkspartei der Schweiz but left the party over the issue of Alto Adige/Südtirol (where he was opposed to irredentism). Of all the groups involved Amaudruz was closest to Ordine Nuovo. Conferences were held irregularly, although membership was fluid and Amaudruz devoted much of his time to writing for journals such as Nation Europa. In 1983 he set up Nationale Koordination as an umbrella group for figures on the Swiss far right. Bringing together various shades of extremist opinion, the group began to fall out of favour in the mid 1990s as younger activists saw it as an 'old man's club. In 2000 Amaudruz was sentenced to a year in a Swiss jail for Holocaust ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10776061 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Franz Burri (1901-1987) was a Swiss political figure who, from his base in Germany, became the leading disseminater of Nazi propaganda in the country. Born in Lucerne, to a half-German working class family, Burri was a supporter of Nazi Germany from an early age and frequently visited the country during the 1930s. He came to full time activism in 1941 by forming his own Bund der Schweizer in Grossdeutschland (League of the Swiss in Greater Germany), calling for a very close relationship between his country and Nazi Germany. Known for his crude language and his fondness for wearing the brown uniform of the Sturmabteilung, his hopes for a career in the SS were dashed when Reinhard Heydrich deemed him unsuitable. Also involved in the larger National Movement of Switzerland, Burri quit this organisation after the rejection of his SS application in 1941 to set up his own Nationalsozialistischer Schweizerbund (NSSB), although he moved to Germany full-time soon after this and ran a sister group, the Nationalsozialistische Bewegung in der Schweiz, from there. Both of the groups were funded directly by Germany. Following his move to Germany Burri took up his role as the leading producer of Nazi propaganda for the Swiss market. From his base in Frankfurt, he produced the International Presseagentur, a newspaper funded by the Nazis. Within its pages Burri and his fellow writers, notably his closest ally and NSSB chief Ernst Leonhardt, called for a Union of the German Peoples in which Switzerland would be absorbed into the Third Reich in the same way that Austria had been. Having taken up German citizenship, he was symbolically stripped of his Swiss status in 1943. After the war Burri was returned to Switzerland where, in 1948, he was sentenced to 20 y... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16403322 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Plays by Arthur Schnitzler, Plays by Franz Grillparzer, Plays by Johann Nestroy, Plays by Peter Handke, König Ottokars Glück Und Ende, Offending the Audience, La Ronde, the Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Professor Bernhardi, He Will Go on a Spree, Illness or Modern Women, the Jewess of Toledo. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: König Ottokars Glück und Ende is a tragedy in five acts written by Franz Grillparzer in 1823. Based on the historical events surrounding the life of Ottokar II of Bohemia, the play deals with the fall of the king from the height of his powers to his death, having lost most of his supporters and lands, largely through his own actions. Grillparzer had originally wanted to write a tragedy about Napoleon, however, fearing censorship from Austrian authorities, instead used King Ottokar II of Bohemia (1253-1278) as the central figure, as there were a number of parallels in personality traits and circumstances. The play was completed in 1823, but publication was delayed by censorship issues, notably the "unfortunate allusion to Napoleon's second marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria, and its unfavourable portrayal of Bohemia". The wife of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria read the play and urged her husband to allow it to be publicly performed, which took place for the first time on February 19, 1825 in Vienna's Burgtheater. The play's nationalistic themes in particular were criticised when first released, and remain controversial today. However the tight personal tragedy of Ottokar, at once the cause and the victim of events around him, as well as the elegance of the verse, has maintained the popularity of the play among students and audiences to the present. Max Devrien...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15604927 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Hermann Hesse, Arthur Schnitzler, Ernst Lothar, Franz Nabl, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Robert Hohlbaum, Felix Dörmann, Max Mell, Stephan von Millenkovich, Fritz Stüber-Gunther, Karl Schönherr, Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie, Wilhelm Hegeler, Marie Herzfeld,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Hermann Karl Hesse (Pseudonym: Emil Sinclair; * 2. Juli 1877 in Calw; † 9. August 1962 in Montagnola, Schweiz) war ein deutsch-schweizerischer Dichter, Schriftsteller und Freizeitmaler. Seine bekanntesten literarischen Werke sind Der Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Peter Camenzind, Demian, Narziß und Goldmund, Unterm Rad und Das Glasperlenspiel, deren Inhalt die Selbstverwirklichung, die Selbstwerdung, die Autoreflexion, das „Transzendieren" des Einzelnen ist. Ihm wurden unter anderem 1946 der Nobelpreis für Literatur und 1954 der Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste verliehen. Hesses Geburtshaus am zentralen Marktplatz von Calw, Aufnahme von 2008.Das Geburtszimmer liegt hinter den ersten zwei links liegenden Fenstern im 2. Obergeschoss(obere Fünf-Fenster-Reihe) Hermann Hesse wurde am 2. Juli 1877 in Calw (Württemberg) im Nordschwarzwald geboren. Er stammte aus einer christlichen Missionarsfamilie und wuchs in einer behüteten und intellektuellen Familienatmosphäre auf. Beide Eltern waren im Auftrag der Basler Mission in Indien tätig, wo Hesses Mutter Marie Gundert (1842-1902) auch geboren wurde. Sein Vater Johannes Hesse (1847-1916), Sohn eines baltischen Arztes, stammte aus Weißenstein in Estland. Da der Vater als Baltendeutscher Bürger des russischen Zarenreichs war (Estland gehörte damals zu Russland), war auch Hermann von Geburt an russischer Staatsangehöri...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=2212 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Benjamin Graham, Margaret Preston, Sidney Nolan, Susan Dorothea White, Arthur Boyd, S. T. Gill, Franz Kempf, Rick Amor, Bill Meyer, John Brack, Guy Grey-Smith, Grahame King, Jessica Rankin, Ian Armstrong, John Skinner Prout, Noel Counihan, Heather Shimmen, William Kermode, Bea Maddock, Thea Proctor, Murray Griffin, Robert Jacks, H. Van Raalte, Salvatore Zofrea, Paul Cavell, Barbara Hanrahan, Euan Heng, Thomas Friedensen, Tom Samek, Lawrence Daws, Rembrandt Mcclintock, Leon Stainer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Benjamin Graham (4 June 1925 15 April 1987), was an Australian visual artist, a master craftsman in a variety of printing techniques, and an art theorist. Unlike many modern artists, Peter saw no contradiction between abstract and figurative art. He just used them as alternative methods of exploring a subject. In 1954, Graham began to explore native Australian wildlife (notably Kangaroos) and themes associated with Aboriginal culture, using the visual languages of European figurative Modernism and later geometric abstraction. He began developing a new form of visual geometry related to Chaos Theory from 1960, eventually called Thematic Orchestration. This new visual language enabled the 2D deconstruction and synthesis of an observed subject, in a way fundamentally different from traditional abstraction. Thematic Orchestration allows the artist to 'grow' an image, producing almost infinite conscious invention. In 1964 Graham began developing the world's first high level visual notation system for pure visual imagery, which he first called Notation Painting and later New Epoch Art. This notation system enabled the composition of animated visual images in any physical media, and separated the act of composition fr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11149541 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jean Paul, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck, Franz Mehring, Gustav Karpeles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jean Paul (21 March 1763 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Fichtelgebirge mountains (Bavaria). His father was an organist at Wunsiedel. In 1765 he became a pastor at Joditz near Hof, and in 1767 at Schwarzenbach, but he died on 25 April 1779, leaving the family in great poverty. After attending the Gymnasium at Hof, Jean Paul went in 1781 to the University of Leipzig. His original intention was to enter his father's profession, but theology did not interest him, and he soon devoted himself wholly to the study of literature. Unable to maintain himself at Leipzig he returned in 1784 to Hof, where he lived with his mother. From 1787 to 1789 he served as a tutor at Töpen, a village near Hof; and from 1790 to 1794 he taught the children of several families in a school he had founded in nearby Schwarzenbach. Jean Paul began his career as a man of letters with Grönländische Prozesse ("Greenland Lawsuits", published anonymously in Berlin) and Auswahl aus des Teufels Papieren ("Selections from the Devil's Papers", signed J. P. F. Hasus), the former of which was issued in 1783-84, the latter in 1789. These works were not received with much favour, and in later life Richter himself had little sympathy for their satirical tone. A spiritual crisis he suffered on 15 November 1790, in which he had a vision of his own death, altered his outlook profoundly. His next book, Die unsichtbare Loge ("The Invisible Lodge"), a romance published in 1793 under the pen-name Jean Paul (in honour of Jea...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1682937 ... Read more

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A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.

Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of junk: in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched.

The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters.
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Ghosty men
Franz Lidz really captures the oddness and quirks of our well known and not so well known urban oddballs. Good read . very entertaining

Too short for such an interesting topic
Lidz tells the story of his uncle Arthur, a hoarding man his mom called "the lost Collyer brother." Along with this story, he gives us a journalistic recounting of the life and deaths of the Collyers, the famed Harlem packrats. There are many details here about the lives of the Collyers I haven't found elsewhere, and as a bonus, you get a quickie history of Harlem and a truly loving portrait of Uncle Arthur. If you're interested in the phenomenon of hoarding, you will enjoy the dizzying pile of a life portrayed in this book. But it is a very short book, with a jumpy, dashed-off style. I am probably rating it a little higher than I would if the subject matter didn't interest me so deeply.

Loved it!
I love stories about eccentric people and I love reading anything that Franz Lidz writes.He holds my attention and he is so funny.I love watching the television show about Hoarders, so I knew that I would love this book.I was not disappointed.I wish that it was longer and had some pictures.I highly recommend it..it's a very quick read. Fascinating!

Pack Rats To End All Pack Rats
Two wealthy college-educated brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, lived at the turn of the 20th century in what was then white Harlem. By the late 1940s, the neighborhood had turned black and the Collyers had barricaded themselves into their elegant brownstone, which would house 180 tons of detritus they had dragged in from the streets. Langley was his brother's keeper, feeding the blind Homer 200 oranges a day against the time he regained his sight. Langley also saved tons and tons of newspapers so that Homer would some day be able to catch up on the news. Inside the walls of their fortress, the Collyers amassed a bizarre collection of pianos and Model T Fords and foetuses in formaldehyde (their father was a gynecologist). In the spring of 1947 word spread that Homer was dead within the house: in fact, he had died of starvation. Langley was nowhere in sight. A worldwide search for him came up empty.
This account of the Collyers is gripping and considerably more inventive than the new E.L. Doctorow novel on the same subject. By alternating chapters with the story of his pack rat Uncle Arthur, Mr. Lidz ingeniously "contemporizes" the tale and provides insights into the hoarding impulse without judgement or specious pop psychology. Most hauntingly, given the circumstances of its composition, Ghosty Men explores the subjects of death and obsession with contemplative urgency.
The gentle Uncle Arthur collected bottles, marbles, mirrors, nuts, screws and lots of other things for his whole life, until only a waist-high path wound through his Flatbush apartment. He had his own theory as to what lies behind his hoarding. ''Maybe it's something I missed in my childhood,'' he said. ''Like something big. The thing is you don't have to pay for junk. It's free.''

Sketchy and All Over the Place
I was expecting a riveting account of the life of the Collyer brothers, the famous New York hoarders, but instead I found a dis-jointed and jumpy book that appeared to be based on a couple of old newspaper articles about the brothers, plus a long middle section about the author's Uncle Arthur, who was also a hoarder. There is almost a whole chapter about the author going to a flea circus. ??? What does that have to do with the Collyers?

I was hoping to get a little insight into why people live this lifestyle, but Lidz doesn't really touch on any of that. We learn nothing about the psychology of the Collyers, and in fact, Lidz tells the story about them from the perspective of a reporter, police and other outsiders. Lidz doesn't seem to know what he wants to be telling us in this book.

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