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Other Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"One of the most important authors and historians of the Federal Republic of Germany shares the story of his childhood and youth during which he experienced the war in a German household opposed to the Nazis and was forced to come to terms with his father's strong political convictions. Original."-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world's most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Wendy Lower's account of the role of German women on the Eastern Front-not only as plunderers and witnesses but as actual killers-powerfully revises history. Lower, drawing on twenty years of research and fieldwork, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with witnesses, presents compelling evidence that these women took part in the shooting of Jews and uncovers the stories of SS wives-with children of their own-whose brutality is as chilling...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his...
Publisher
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses suffered brutal persecution. The reason: they stood firm in their beliefs and boldly spoke out against the cruelty of Nazism. For this, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses were thrown into Nazi concentration camps. In this video, 10 European and American historians and more than 20 Witness survivors of the period, join in relating their story of courage and triumph...
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English
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"The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors...
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Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate timeline, World War II never takes place. Instead, a plan is put into effect by Hitler and the Nazi party to drain the Mediterranean Sea. They promise fertile land, millions of jobs and endless energy. New land to be settled. Living space for a crowded continent. All of Europe came together and signed a treaty to realize this new world, it was called 'The Atlantropa Articles'. By promising to bring endless energy through hydro-electricity...
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Series
Publisher
referencePoint Press, Inc. ®
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Describes how children were impacted by the events of the Holocaust, discussing how some children were hidden or smuggled out of Nazi occupied countries and how others caught by the Nazi's faced persecution and annihilation.
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particularhow steeped they were in the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.-- Provided by publisher
"Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The...
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