From Manet to Manhattan: The Rise of the Modern Art Market

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Digital Photography Book.......2007-07-15

I got this book over the summer to learn more about photography. Boy, it teaches you a lot! This book tells about camera types, panoramas, memory cards, filters, cleaning equipment, software, and much more! Even though I have a few other photography books, this one still seems to be fine. If you are a beginner, this is the book you are looking for. This book is more of the basic type, but tells you what you need to know to begin learning about photography. I mean, it doesn't teach you any "not obvious" tricks. This book is also a "serious" book-a clown did not write this book. If you have already read some beginner books, I recommend The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby. He teaches some tricks that are nice to know to provide sharpness, and uniqueness. He is a funny person-always joking around, which makes it fun to read his book. The Digital Photography Book says it's for point-and-shoot cameras, too, but is really for SLR cameras and "almost pro cameras". This book, (Switch to Digital) is for both SLR camera users and point-and-shoot camera users. Both books have excellent pictures. The Digital Photography Book also tells what gear Scott Kelby, (the author) uses, but you can go to William Cheung's website (www.williamcheung.co.uk)to see what his gear is. Overall, this is an excellent book for beginners. I don't regret getting it!

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Working for the Enemy

General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, today the headquarters of European Ford.

In this book, historians tell the astonishing story of what happened at Opel and Ford Werke under the Third Reich, and of the aftermath today.

Long before the Second World War, key American executives at Ford and General Motors were eager to do business with Nazi Germany. Ford Werke and Opel became indispensable suppliers to the German armed forces, together providing most of the trucks that later motorized the Nazi attempt to conquer Europe.

After the outbreak of war in 1939, Opel converted its largest factory to warplane parts production. Both companies set up extensive maintenance and repair networks to help keep the war machine on wheels.

During the first two years of the war, General Motors and Ford executives from the United States negotiated with the Nazi leadership the terms under which their German factories were converted to their wartime functions.

James Mooney, the leading GM executive in Europe, met with Hitler, Roosevelt and British diplomats in the months from October 1939 to March 1940 in the hope of mediating a peace that would have been favorable to Germany. Mooney was a recipient of the Order of the Golden Eagle, the highest Nazi honor for foreigners. Mooney shared that last distinction with Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, whose anti-Semitic writings in The International Jew (1921) were translated into many languages at his own expense and served as an inspiration to Hitler's Mein Kampf (1924).

German Ford Werke and Opel executives were integrated into the highest levels of the Third Reich's wartime production planning. As the war wore on and production became the highest homefront priority, they and their fellow corporate managers took an increasingly important role at the Reich Armaments Ministry. Contact between the German subsidiaries and the U.S. mother corporations continued up until the outbreak of war between the United States and Germany in December 1941, and there is ample evidence of subsequent communications.

During the war, the Nazi Reich used millions of POWs, civilians from German-occupied countries, and concentration camp prisoners as forced laborers in the German homefront economy. In the absence of millions of German men who had been sent to the front, forced labor became indispensible to German war production and agriculture.

As of August 1944, the high point of Nazi forced-labor programs, 8 million foreigners were being used as forced laborers within the borders of the Reich. The largest groups consisted of civilians rounded up from the occupied territories of the Soviet Union (mostly young women) and Poland as well as in the West, POWs from France, Poland, the Soviet Union and other countries, and Jewish and other laborers provided by the concentration camps in "work-to-death" programs.

Starting already in 1940, Ford Werke and Opel also made use of thousands of forced laborers. POWs and civilian detainees, deported to Germany by the Nazi authorities, were kept at private camps owned and managed by the companies.

In the longest section of the book, ten people who were forced to work at Ford Werke recall their wartime experiences in oral testimonies. Their story is vivid and moving.

For more than fifty years, legal and political obstacles frustrated efforts to gain compensation for Nazi-era forced labor. The book briefly reviews that history.

In 1998, former forced laborers filed dozens of class action lawsuits against German corporations in U.S. courts. The first lawsuit was filed against Ford Motor Company and Ford Werke AG, and General Motors was also sued in a wave of litigation that hit nearly every major German corporation, from Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz to Siemens and Bosch.

This was accompanied by a wave of German labor court cases demanding compensation for Nazi-era forced labor, and served to revive controversy over the still-unpaid compensations.

The book's concluding chapter reviews the subsequent, immensely complex negotiations towards a settlement - which involved Germany, the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Czech Republic, Israel and several other countries, as well as dozens of well-known German corporations.

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Profit knows no allegiance.......2001-07-07

War, any war, is a sad and brutal indictment of failed politics and blundered diplomacy, but it always finds its willing supporters: militarists, super patriots, blind loyalists and cynical businessmen whose pursuit of profit knows no moral or ethical barrier. Could any war exist without them? This excellent book revealed many pages of World War II's history that I, and I suspect, many other people did not know existed - or existed on such a vast scope. It is both scholarly AND readable. It documents facts, not speculation. There can be little argument as to what went on during those years. Only someone suffering a massive bout of denial could argue with the facts. Still the book, with all that it reveals, and it reveals much, would not have guts or emotion without the perspective of the little guy. If anyone can read Mareno Mannucci's ordeal of his first night at Ford Werke and not see the pathos, feel his complete and total fear when he awakened alone and lost in the blackness of that night, with the sound of air raid alarms filling the tense night air and the shriek of his panicked voice joining the blaring alarms in a surreal duet of terror and helplessness, then that reader is not human. THAT memory of Mareno Mannucci probably is shared in one form or another by countless millions who experienced the war first hand. I wonder how many times he re-lived that night in the ensuing decades. The world should forever remember all the Mareno Mannuccis, whether they were frontline GIs, or Brits, or Russians, concentration camp prisoners, POWs, or slave laborers, but it won't. There's no profit in it. This is a real history book. Buy it, read it and remember it.

Revealing and meticulously presented essays.......2001-05-20

In Working For The Enemy: Ford, General Motors, And Forced Labor In Germany During The Second World War, Reinhold Billstein, Karola Fings, Anita Kugler, and Nicholas Levis effectively collaborate to present the reader with a revealing and meticulously presented series of essays on the history of German industry within the context of World War II. From airplane manufacture at a General Motors Subsidiary (1939-1945), to forced labor at Ford Werke in Cologne, this compelling and informative contribution to twentieth-century German history is a significant, scholarly, and welcome addition to academic collections and reading lists.

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