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Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the "most powerful pieceof propaganda ever produced." Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer .
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What paths did true believers take to Nazism? Why did they join what was initially a small, extremist, and often violent movement on the fringes of German politics? When the party began its election campaigning after 1925, why did people vote for it only grudgingly, though in the Great Depression years, make it the largest in the country? Even then, many millions withheld their support, as they would, if covertly, in the Third Reich. Were the recruits...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Language
English
Description
A cultural history tracing the Volkswagen Beetle from its origins in Nazi Germany to its role in the postwar West German economic miracle to its popularity in midcentury Europe and the U.S., second career in Mexico and Latin America and revival in the late 1990s.
6) Mein Kampf
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hitler's life and his social and political philosophy
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told story of Eric Roberts, who infiltrated a network of Nazi sympathizers in Great Britain in order to protect the country from the grips of fascism June 1940: Europe has fallen to Adolf Hitler's army, and Britain is his next target. Winston Churchill exhorts the country to resist the Nazis, and the nation seems to rally behind him. But in secret, some British citizens are plotting to hasten an invasion. Agent Jack tells the incredible...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader. In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of...
Author
Language
English
Description
During the Second World War two Jewish sisters -- Janny and Lien Brilleslijper -- run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While the last remaining Jews are being hunted in The Netherlands, the lives of dozens of hideaways kept going for better or for worse, right under the noses of their National Socialist neighbors. Eventually, the nest is exposed and the Brilleslijper family put on one of the...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Shortly before World War II, a new teacher arrives at an English finishing school for the daughters of upper-class German families and starts investigating what happened to his suddenly disappeared predecessor.
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 12,...
13) Seeking refuge
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Marianne escapes Nazi Germany to the safety of Britain, but she does not speak English, she is not welcome in her sponsors' home, and she misses her mother terribly, which all add up to a difficult struggle to survive.
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World...
14) The blood years
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II"--
"The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels' descent into antisemitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler's inner circle and where he shaped a brutal campaign of Nazi...
17) Eichmann's men
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available in English, Hans Safrian's path-breaking work on Adolf Eichmann and his Nazi helpers chronicles the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitic policies beginning in 1933 and during World War II to the "final...
18) Look away: a true story of murders, bombings, and a far-right campaign to rid Germany of immigrants
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, three teenagers-a woman and two men-became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of a job. At first, the three friends spent their nights lingering in train stations, smoking, drinking, and looking for trouble. Then, they began attending far-right rallies with people called themselves National...
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