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The rise of the Nazis to power in Germany on 30 January 1933 caused radical changes in the field of publishing in the country. The Nazi regime censored publications that they considered a threat to them, while exercising strict control over libraries in the country. The influence of the Nazis on publishing in Germany was symbolized by the bookburning (Bücher verbrennung) campaign, which took place with the participation of the German Student Union (Deutsche Studenten schaft, DSt). The Nazis' book burning campaign targeted boks that were considered harmful or represented ideologies opposed to the Nazism ideology. In addition to the elimination of publications opposed to the Nazismi deology, publications that glorified the Nazism ideology and aimed at the adoption of the ideas of the Nazism ideology to the German society appeared. Among these publications, there were also books in which the anti-Semitist discourses of the Nazism ideology were included. In the study, how the Nazi regime used the boks for the purpose of propaganda in the adoption of the anti-Semitic discourses of the Nazism ideology to them as was examined in the book called Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud auf seinem Eid (Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath). Within the scope of the study, the visual and written indicators in the book were analyzed by using the semiotics method in the context of Karl Bühler's Organon Model and Claude Lévi-Strauss' Binary Contrasts Model. In the study, it was concluded that the perceptions that Jews were unwanted, marginalized, excluded in German society were created. In the light of the findings obtained in this way, it can be inferred that the anti-Semitist discourses of the Nazism ideology are adopted in German society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Precision Agriculture (PA) has been advocated as a promising technology and management philosophy that provides multidimensional benefits for producers and consumers while being environmentally friendly. In Europe, private stakeholders (farm advisors, farm equipment producers, decision support providers, farmers) and research institutions have been trying to develop, test and demonstrate adoption of precision agriculture solutions with governments financing big projects in these areas. Despite these efforts, adoption is still lagging behind expectations. Whether farmers adopt PA or not is likely to be influenced by several factors. This study intends to identify the main socio-economic determinants of adoption of precision agriculture in Denmark and Germany employing a binary logit model on a cross-section survey data. The results show that farm size, farmer age and demonstration and networking events like attending workshops and exhibitions significantly influence farmers’ adoption decision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industrial child labor laws were the earliest manifestation of the modern regulatory welfare state. Why, despite the absence of political pressure from below, did some states (but not others) succeed in legislating working hours, minimum ages, and schooling requirements for working children in the first half of the nineteenth century? I use case studies of the politics behind the first child labor laws in Germany and France, alongside a case study of a failed child labor reform effort in Belgium, to answer this question. I show that existing structural, class-based, and institutional theories of the welfare state are insufficient to explain why child labor laws came about. Highlighting instead the previously neglected role of elite policy entrepreneurs, I argue that the success or failure of early nineteenth-century child labor laws depended on these actors' social skill, pragmatic creativity, and goal-directedness. At the same time, their actions and influence were conditioned by their field position and the architecture of the policy field. By specifying the qualities and conditions that enable policy entrepreneurs to build the alliances needed to effect policy change, this analysis lends precision to the general claim that their agency matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]