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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 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 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 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 Turko-Mongols, a group of tribes that were inspired by the myth of the primitive hunter, invaded Europe and Asia in the fourth century. They were a pack of wolves hunting the cervidae on the steppes.
#2 The religions of central and northern Asia were influenced by many different cultures and religions, but they all shared a characteristic syncretism. They...
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#1 The Stone Age lasted from 2. 5 million years ago to 10,000 BCE. During this period, mankind crafted stone tools for hunting, agriculture, cooking, and the like. The Paleolithic Era began around 10,000 BCE, and it was during this time that mankind first used tools made of bone, ivory, and flint.
#2 The cave paintings in the El Pendo Cave in Cantabria, Spain, were done...
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#1 The Czechoslovak government declared a general mobilization for an impending state of war on September 23, 1938. The children were excited to tell people about the air raid the next day at school. But when the siren went off, the parents were not as happy.
#2 When we saw that there was no danger threatening Prague, we returned home. In the meantime, our president,...
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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 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 Frederick Albert Cook, the second youngest son, was five years old when he saw his father in the coffin. He grew up loving the outdoors, and would spend nights under the stars. He never forgot the struggle to survive, and learned how to swim.
#2 Frederick Cook, the inventor of the milk delivery truck, was a medical student at Columbia University. He was able to get...
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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 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 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 Some Christians still worry that heathen hordes will one day arrive on American shores, armed with guns and knives, to crush our Christian way of life and destroy the American church. But instead of finding any evidence of Christianity in this country, they find the worship of actors, politicians, athletes, and imaginary figures on television.
#2 The heathens are...
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#1 The city of Jerusalem was the center of Jewish life for nearly 500 years, from the Persian period until the Roman Empire destroyed it in 70 C. E.
#2 The house of David and the house of God came together in Jewish tradition. The Second Temple was rebuilt by the returning exiles and the Hasmoneans, and it reached its height of splendor under Herod the Great.
#3 The...
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#1 In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.
#2 The young Jawaharlal...
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#1 The earliest known evidence of the belief in ghosts is from the third millennium bc, when a clay tablet was found that contained the word ghost. However, we must suspect ghostly presences that existed much earlier than this.
#2 The first examples of simple inhumation, the deliberate creation of a space in which to deposit and cover a corpse, are only evident after...
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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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