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The Nazi Impact on a German Village
Published in Hardcover by University Press of Kentucky (1992)
Authors: Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling
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A wonderful description of the village of my ancestors.
I purchased this particular book, since the entire book talks about the village my ancestors lived in. They left in 1853 to emigrate to America. No one in my family has been able to ever find any information regarding this village.

This book is simply a delight for me to read. Opening a window to the past: finding how my ancestors lived; their beautiful surroundings; with very interesting information how Oberschopfheim came into being; with it's developments through out the centuries.

I am also interested very much in WWII history. It is a very interesting to see how the Nazi's influenced such a small village. This question has always been in my mind, and now I have an insight into the WWII atmosphere, created by the Nazi's.

Since I have been searhing for information on Oberschopfheim, the discovery of this book has been an answer to a prayer for me. Once, I was about to give up with my search, but now I feel like a have a real understanding of the passage of time in the village. I am so grateful for such a wonderful book!!!

Either way, if your approach is getting information of this particular village, or for an insight into the impact of the Nazi's, this is a wonderfully written book.

My thanks go out to Mr Rinderle, and Mr. Norling!

God and Politics in Oberschopfheim
Walter Rinderle (Vincennes University) and Bernard Norling (Notre Dame) have written one of the most conscientious possible reconstructions of life in a small Catholic town of 2,800 gnarled and busy souls before, during and after the period of Nazi power (1933-1945). The town is Oberschopfheim located in southwest Baden and the joint authors depict all aspects of the daily life, toil and vital interests of the town's citizens.

The book is based on the Oberschopfheim archives which "contained copies of correspondence sent and received and detailed information about such matters as agriculture, local government, the manifold endeavors and concerns of the church, the distribution of welfare, community discord, and the activities of the politice. The pastor, village officials, and ordinary citizens alike were generously cooperative." (p. 3) It is one of the most level-headed books about the whole period.

Here, for example, you have an account of the town's voting patterns in one of the elections. "The ingrained political responses of Oberschopfheimers likewise offered little to comfort the Nazis. In many German villages, both Catholic and Protestant, clerical influence on the voting habits of church members was so effective that it was sometimes positively embarrassing, producing results that approached in predictability those in post-1945 Communist states. In most elections in the 1920s only about half of the eligible voters in Oberschopfheim had bothered to go to the polls. Of those more than 80 percent routinely obeyed the pastor and voted for the Center (Catholic) party, thereby earning for themselves the sobriquet, "black nest of reaction." (pp. 95-96).

Here is another. "Contemporary Anglo-Saxon, especially American, writer frequently distort the history of people who live under any authoritarian regime because they assume that democracy is the natural, normal form of government anywhere, that the mass of 'normal' people everywhere admire and desire it, and that any deviation from it is some sort of civil disease of 'problem' requiring diagnosis. If one begins merely by noting the historical record-that some form of absolutism has been the usual mode of government at most times and places and that democratic experiments have generally been short-lived historically-then fascism does not appears to be a social sickness but only another variant of authoritarianism. At once, all sorts of human conduct in Nazi Germany and elsewhere becomes demystified. By focusing relentlessly on the most bizarre features of Nazi ideology and the most base cruelties of Nazi practice it is easy to forget that for the ordinary nonpolitical person day-to-day life in some authoritarian society does not differ markedly from that in a democracy. One must be wary of exchanging political opinions with others, to be sure, and a prudent individual should not attract attention to himself. One should also be careful to obey the law, since authoritarian regimes are usually less lenient to transgressors than are democracies. But these are not especially onerous restrictions to most conventional, nonideological persons. Even under the most strident despotism more of the time of judges and courts is spent dealing with taxes, licenses, applications, civil lawsuits, thievery, public drunkenness, brawling, and marital discord than with the persecution or enslavement of political dissidents." (pp. 133-134) Highly recommended.

An informative history of the village where I am born
I have read this book from a very personal view. Many events and persons that are described in the book I have heard from my parents. Many Informations of the history of my home-village I've heard the first time. Unfortunately the book is written in English. The content of the book merits also readers who are not able to read the book in English.


Annual Review of Jazz Studies 9: 1997-98
Published in Hardcover by Scarecrow Press (06 September, 2000)
Authors: Edward Berger, David Cayer, Henry Martin, Dan Morgenstern, Bernard Reich, David H. Goldberg, and Jon Woronoff
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Exquisite Detail
As one who wishes to know more about the "nuts and bolts" of jazz, I always insist on reveling in the research conducted by these, the finest jazz authorities on the planet. Unlike the contributions of Ken Burns and others of his genre, this is the real stuff written by the real guys. Very Highly Recomended!!


Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation
Published in Hardcover by Greenwood Publishing Group (30 September, 1995)
Author: Bernard Reich
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Asian States' Relations with the Middle East and North Africa
Published in Hardcover by Scarecrow Press (28 June, 1994)
Authors: Sanford R. Silverburg and Bernard Reich
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The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
Published in Paperback by Westview Press (1995)
Authors: David E. Long and Bernard Reich
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Handbook of Political Science Research on the Middle East and North Africa
Published in Hardcover by Greenwood Publishing Group (1998)
Author: Bernard Reich
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Historical Dictionary of Israel
Published in Hardcover by Scarecrow Press (01 September, 1992)
Authors: Bernhard Reich and Bernard Reich
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An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Published in Hardcover by Greenwood Publishing Group (1996)
Author: Bernard Reich
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Israel Faces the Future:
Published in Hardcover by Praeger Publishers (08 October, 1986)
Authors: Bernard Reich and Gershon R. Kieval
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Israel, land of tradition and conflict
Published in Unknown Binding by Westview ; Croom Helm ()
Author: Bernard Reich
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