10 Best nonfiction books like Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden by Harald Welzer

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Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

By: Harald Welzer

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Über den Holocaust ist viel geschrieben worden, aber die wichtigste Frage, ist bis heute nicht bean…

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1. I Am the Messenger

By: Markus Zusak

4.03

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

protect the diamonds survive the clubs dig deep through the spades feel the hearts Ed Kennedy… read more

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"How’s yours?"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"I’m Angelina,"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"What do I do now?"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"My soul needs yours"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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2. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

Similar categories in Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland book and Harald Welzer's Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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3. Between Facts & Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law & Democracy

By: Jürgen Habermas , William Rehg

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"[A] fascinating synthesis of Continental and Anglo-American legal theory. . . full of interesting … read more

Similar categories in Jürgen Habermas's Between Facts & Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law & Democracy book and Harald Welzer's Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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4. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

By: Nicholas Carr

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
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5. Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying

By: Sönke Neitzel , Harald Welzer

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: ream… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

6. Defying Hitler

By: Sebastian Haffner , None

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Ger… read more

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7. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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8. Was man von hier aus sehen kann

By: Mariana Leky

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Von der unbedingten Anwesenheitspflicht im eigenen Leben Selma, eine alte Westerwalderin, kann den … read more

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9. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

By: None , Götz Aly

4.15

Format: 128 pages,

Depois da leitura dos inumeros livros que nos falam da <>de Hitler, dos crimes do Terceiro Reich ou… read more

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10. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain book and Harald Welzer's Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

  • german literature
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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11. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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12. Dschinns

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine… read more

Similar categories in Fatma Aydemir's Dschinns book and Harald Welzer's Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

  • german literature
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13. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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14. Besser fühlen: Eine Reise zur Gelassenheit

By: Leon Windscheid

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

WER MENSCH SEIN WILL, MUSS FÜHLEN. Der Psychologe Leon Windscheid begibt sich auf eine bewegende R… read more

Similar categories in Leon Windscheid's Besser fühlen: Eine Reise zur Gelassenheit book and Harald Welzer's Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

  • german literature
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Anstatt den Zauber eines Sonnenuntergangs zu genießen, wischen wir über ein Display, um die Sonne zu fotografieren. Nicht für uns, sondern für andere. Und obwohl wir ahnen, dass uns das nicht zufried…"

-Leon Windscheid, Besser fühlen: Eine Reise zur Gelassenheit

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15. Streulicht

By: Deniz Ohde

3.93

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Industrieschnee markiert die Grenzen des Orts, eine feine Säure liegt in der Luft, und hinter der W… read more

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  • german literature
Cover of Ministerium der Träume by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

16. Ministerium der Träume

By: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Als die Polizei vor ihrer Tür steht, bricht für Nas eine Welt zusammen: ihre Schwester Nushin ist t… read more

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  • german literature
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17. Auszeit im Café am Rande der Welt. Eine Wiederbegegnung mit dem eigenen Selbst

By: John P. Strelecky

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Für alle, die an einem Wendepunkt in ihrem Leben stehen Zehn Jahre sind seit Johns letztem Besuch … read more

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  • german literature
  • psychology
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18. Triggerpunkte: Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft

By: Steffen Mau

4.31

Format: 540 pages, Paperback

Von einer »Spaltung der Gesellschaft« ist immer häufiger die Rede. Auch in der Alltagswahrnehmung v… read more

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  • german literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. Beklaute Frauen

By: Leonie Schöler

4.64

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Wie Frauen Geschichte schrieben – und Männer dafür den Ruhm bekamenMuse, Sekretärin, Ehefrau – es g… read more

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  • german literature
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Herumtreiberinnen

By: Bettina Wilpert

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Manja ist 17 Jahre alt und lebt im Leipzig der 1980er Jahre. Ihre beste Freundin Maxie und sie schw… read more

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  • german literature
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21. Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden

By: Harald Welzer

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Über den Holocaust ist viel geschrieben worden, aber die wichtigste Frage, ist bis heute nicht bean… read more

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  • german literature
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • holocaust

6 Best history books like Täter: Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden by Harald Welzer

Transform Your Habits

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying

Sönke Neitzel , Harald Welzer

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

4.28

Transform Your Habits

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky

4.15

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18 Best fiction books like Dschinns by Fatma Aydemir

Transform Your Habits

Und alle so still

Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Windstärke 17

Caroline Wahl

4.49

Transform Your Habits

‎22 Bahnen

Caroline Wahl

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Blutbuch

Kim de l'Horizon

3.89

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