1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459983103321

Autore

Jarausch Konrad <1900-1942.>

Titolo

Reluctant accomplice [[electronic resource] ] : a Wehrmacht soldier's letters from the Eastern Front / / edited by Konrad H. Jarausch ; with contributions by Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy ; foreword by Richard Kohn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-96450-X

9786612964503

1-4008-3632-8

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 392 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

JarauschKonrad Hugo

ArnoldKlaus Jochen <1968->

DuffyEve M

Disciplina

940.54/1343092

B

Soggetti

Soldiers - Germany

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Eastern Front

World War, 1939-1945 - Moral and ethical aspects

Intellectuals - Germany

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

In search of a father : dealing with the legacy of Nazi complicity -- pt. 1. The Polish campaign -- Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 -- pt. 2. Training recruits -- Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 -- pt. 3. War of annihilation in Russia -- Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942.

Sommario/riassunto

Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his



wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs are chilling. They reveal the inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became reluctant accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its suffering victims, a bond that could transcend race, nationalism, and the enmity of war. Reluctant Accomplice is also the powerful story of the son, who for decades refused to come to grips with these letters because he abhorred his father's nationalist politics. Only now, late in his life, is he able to cope with their contents--and he is by no means alone. This book provides rare insight into the so-called children of the war, an entire generation of postwar Germans who grew up resenting their past, but who today must finally face the painful legacy of their parents' complicity in National Socialism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367747703321

Autore

Francini Alessandra

Titolo

Abiotic Stress Effects on Performance of Horticultural Crops / Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039217519

3039217518

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (126 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Horticultural crop yield and quality depend on genotype, environmental conditions, and production management. In particular, adverse



environmental conditions may greatly affect crop performance, reducing crop yield by 50%-70%. Abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, drought, flooding, salinity, nutrient deficiency, and ultraviolet radiation affect multiple physiological and biochemical mechanisms in plants as they attempt to cope with the stress conditions. However, different crop species can have different sensitivities or tolerances to specific abiotic stresses. Tolerant plants may activate different strategies to adapt to or avoid the negative effect of abiotic stresses. At the physiological level, photosynthetic activity and light-use efficiency of plants may be modulated to enhance tolerance against the stress. At the biochemical level, several antioxidant systems may be activated, and many enzymes may produce stress-related metabolites to help avoid cellular damage, including compounds such as proline, glycine betaine, and amino acids. Within each crop species there is a wide variability of tolerance to abiotic stresses, and some wild relatives may carry useful traits for enhancing the tolerance to abiotic stresses in their progeny through either traditional or biotechnological breeding. The research papers and reviews presented in this book provide an update of the scientific knowledge of crop interactions with abiotic stresses.