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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...

Profiles sixty women and men who were caught up in the Holocaust, including Nazi perpetrators and their victims, world leaders and policy makers, and those who showed their humanity and courage by resiting Hitler's reign of genocidal terror.

This program explores the career of Ilse Koch, a Nazi war criminal from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Describes the most famous German accused of having committed atrocities during World War II. Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the lampshade made from human skin. Puts her career in context of the German Nazi era. As the wife of a concentration camp commander, she was to grow accustomed to a privileged existence....

Documentary that examines Martin Bormann's rise to power as Hitler's "most faithful party comrade" during the Third Reich, and explores conflicting theories about what happened to Bormann after the defeat of Hitler.

Describes the crimes of Nazi perpetrators and their efforts to escape retribution, development of the Nuremberg Trials, and the subsequent hunt for and trials of Nazi leaders.