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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 Witold Pilecki's Report is a powerful document. It is powerful not because of its cadences of prose or striking imagery, but because it illuminates the brutally perverted world of Auschwitz in a way that only someone who has firsthand experience of it could do.
#2 The Report is powerful, because it highlights an aspect of Auschwitz that is less well known outside...
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#1 The author has made a career out of attempting to make the Holocaust accessible and memorable. He brings to this book his unusual training as an economic historian, which helps him see the importance of numbers and their significance.
#2 This is not a book about the Holocaust, but rather a book debunking the myths surrounding it.
#3 The term antisemitism is a misnomer,...
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#1 Secularization has recently accelerated in most countries. It is caused by the fact that, for many centuries, a coherent set of pro-fertility norms evolved in most countries that assigned women the role of producing as many children as possible. These norms are no longer needed for societal survival, and are rapidly giving way to individual-choice norms.
#2 The rise...
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#1 I was about to meet one of the few survivors from the first transport of women to Auschwitz, a woman who had kept her story to herself for nearly 50 years. I was nervous about the task at hand.
#2 I met with Rena, and within thirty minutes, I knew I would do whatever I could to help her. She had accepted me into her heart, for the rest of her life.
#3 I had planned...
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#1 When the police found Thomas Wu, he was in the barnlike Puh-Chi, conducting an exorcism. The police captain understood the priest's message to be that he had found the wanted man.
#2 The storehouse was an inferno. With a tearing crash, the roof caved in. The flames shot up triumphantly and licked the outside walls, burning and consuming ravenously.
#3 During the...
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#1 Bonhoeffer wrote this final paragraph at the end of 1942 or in autumn 1943. It was never completed, but it was planned as part of After Ten Years. The German text does not appear in the new German edition of Letters and Papers, but in Gesammelte Schriften II, p. 441.
#2 I am fine, and I am grateful for the small things in prison. I am anxious about my fiancée,...
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#1 Ben-Gurion International Airport is a brash, beautiful, and strikingly confident construction that serves as a testament to Israel's self-ascribed position as a bastion of social and technological advancement amid a sea of inchoate enemies.
#2 I visited the village of Um al-Nasr in northern Gaza, which was flooded when Israel refused to allow the importation of pumps,...
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#1 Theology is the study of God, and it is a complex, highly rational discipline that only exists in Christianity. The East lacks theologians because those who might otherwise take up such an intellectual pursuit reject its first premise: the existence of a conscious, all-powerful God.
#2 The Bible does not condemn astrology, and the story of the Wise Men following...
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#1 Your worldview is the framework you use to interpret the world and your place in it. It is like a set of glasses that you look through to bring what is happening in the world into mental focus. Your worldview is not just common sense, but also your intuitive answers to the basic philosophical questions of what is real, how we can know it, and what is right and wrong.
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#1 The Rockefeller family, one of the 13 Satanic bloodlines that rule the world, exerts immense influence over religion in the United States. They provide a large share of the money that seminaries and universities need to operate.
#2 The Sealantic Fund was a Rockefeller Foundation-funded organization that donated money to manipulate Protestant concerns. In 1964,...
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#1 I was a pianist in the Café Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the Warsaw ghetto. The afternoon was best for smuggling, as the police were less alert then. Small black figures would rush towards the openings in the wall, where they would haul consignments of goods through.
#2 The Nowoczesna was a café in the ghetto that was frequented by the rich. They...
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#1 The death of Pope Benedict XV in 1922 was the result of a persistent cough that had begun to bother him two weeks earlier. He took last rites, and died the next morning. Giacomo Della Chiesa, a cardinal who had only been elected three months earlier, was chosen to replace him.
#2 The death of Pius X in 1922 brought about even more unrest in Italy. The country...
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#1 The ancient Egyptians believed that everything in the natural world was divine. They gave animal heads to human bodies to demonstrate the interdependence of everything in the world.
#2 The gods are important to us now because they embody certain higher principles and are the spiritual exemplars and way-showers who can give us the guidance we need. We know we are born...
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#1 The truth is that you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. But is it possible that if you don't know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage. As a boy, I learned that if someone found out the truth, I might get in trouble or not get chosen. So I learned to tell the truth.
#2 The past is what is real and true, while history is merely...
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#1 The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the body in charge of promoting and safeguarding the doctrine on faith and morals throughout the Catholic world. It is one of nine Vatican congregations, and it generates plenty of rulings of its own.
#2 The Congregation has a long history with the Inquisition, which was the Church's effort to deal with its perceived...
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#1 The author and his crew survived a gale at Cape Horn, endured a four-day hailstorm, and survived a shipwreck off the coast of Juan Fernandez. They then made it to California and were greeted by friends and family.
#2 First voyage to California. Second voyage to California and back to Boston. Third voyage to California, then north to Mackinac Island and down the Great...
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