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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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#1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is the largest Mormon church, is located in Salt Lake City. The choir that performs at the temple is representative of the Mormons as a people: chaste, optimistic, and outgoing. But Mormons and Mormon Fundamentalists believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history.
#2 The LDS Church is extremely defensive...
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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#1 On January 30, 1933, the fate of the world was decided in Marshal Hindenburg's study. Hitler had just become Reich Chancellor. Von Papen became Vice-Chancellor and Commissioner for Prussia. The terror immediately descended upon Germany. It manifested itself in riots and street fighting.
#2 On February 1, Hindenburg received the decree for the dissolution of...
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#1 The purpose of this book is to listen to the many different religions around the world and find common themes. We cannot know for sure whether or not the voices we hear blend in strange, ethereal harmony, but we can listen carefully and with full attention to each voice.
#2 The book does not attempt to give a rounded view of the religions considered. Each host...
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#1 I was going to be part of a human evolution project co-managed by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen. In the middle of all the upheaval that comes with taking on a new position, I got a phone call from Nikolai Spassov, the director of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, Bulgaria.
#2 Spassov had found the fossilized...
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#1 Hilde and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, before World War II. Hilde's parents were German Jews, and her aunts were German-speaking Jewish sisters who came of age during the last days of the reign of Wilhelm II and the first years of the Weimar Republic.
#2 Hilde and her family were German Jews who lived in Berlin before World War II. Hilde's family had been...
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#1 Pupetta Lady Camorra Maresca was a cunning liar and a cold-blooded killer, but if you could look beyond that, she was genuinely delightful. She took down the man who ordered the fatal hit on her husband.
#2 Pupetta was a fascinating woman who had many connections to the underground world. She was always listening to radio ads for private home security services, as...
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#1 The Nazi Party's Jewish policy was to remove the Jews from Germany, and they did so by boycott, intimidation, and eventually expulsion. The most important stages in this process were the boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935, and the pogrom of November 1938.
#2 When Heydrich referred to the authorization Göring had given...
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#1 The Illuminati seeks to capture the occult power of powerful occult bloodlines around the world. They have intermarried with American Indians to gain the spiritual power resident within the leading spiritual American Indians.
#2 The families that control Switzerland go back to Venice. The Venetian and Genoese banker/international commerce families have produced some...
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#1 The 13th century was a century of saints and of great note for the Church. It was marked by the establishment of the great orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, and by the death of St. Louis, a victim to his love of Jesus crucified.
#2 The Saint was chosen to assist others during her lifetime by her merits and intercession, as well as by the gift of counsel which...
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#1 I grew up in a family that was Catholic and humanistic. My parents taught me a strict Catholic and humanistic ethic. I knew I would have to make a choice about God and the Catholic Church.
#2 My family always took the opportunity to give me a detailed account of the places where they had come face to face with history. They were simple people who wanted to tell me...
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#1 The Christian denomination I grew up in, the Southern Baptist Convention, was founded on the idea that slavery could coexist with Christianity. While northern white Christians were against slavery, they rarely showed any support for black equality.
#2 I am the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts...
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#1 The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to priceless masterpieces. We must consider the controversies, discussions, and debates around any such masterpieces.
#2 Part One focuses on the art of the body, and how it has been portrayed around the world. It asks what...
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#1 God is a nudge. Not in the annoying sense, but in a gentle, leaning-into sense. We can feel God nudging us beyond our atrophied complacence toward something more oceanic and spacious.
#2 We have trained God to do our bidding outside. We have settled for a partial God, when every minute of every moment is asked to move beyond the mind we have and land on a renewed...
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#1 The next major epoch in Jewish history is referred to as the time of Moses, when he was ordered to throw every Hebrew boy that was born into the Nile River. However, his mother saved him by putting him in a basket and sending him floating on the waters. When the pharaoh's daughter saw him, she took him in and named him Moses.
#2 The burning bush incident was a huge...
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#1 In 1682, the Ottoman Empire was going to war with the Habsburg Empire. The sultan, Mehmed IV, was going to lead the army himself. The presence of the sultan directed the whole force of the empire against their adversary.
#2 The Ottoman war camp, by contrast, was a perfect model city. It was made of broadcloth, canvas, silk, brocade, and embroidery rather than brick...
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#1 The activities of the Israeli air force at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in 1973: A flash of white thigh in dark water. Hair plastered down a smooth back. Ripples glimmering around rocks. Bras and fatigues crumpled on the sand.
#2 The monitors at the radar station that sat above the airfield in Egypt were Israeli soldiers. They had never seen an enemy plane, and they...
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#1 The French were shocked by the speed of the German victory, and how young and healthy the troops looked. They were stunned by the fact that a nation whose military valour was epitomized by the battle of Verdun in the First World War and whose defences had been guaranteed by the supposedly impregnable Maginot line, had been reduced to a state of vassalage in just six...
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