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Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for political prisoners, subject to police authority and due process. The camp began its irrevocable transformation from one to the other following the execution of four Jewish detainees in the spring of 1933. Timothy W. Ryback's ... historical narrative focuses...
Author
Series
Holocaust ; 4
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Explores the unique aspects and events in the period of the Holocaust between January 1942 and June 1943, blending historical narrative and primary sources.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In this truly remarkable book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, irreligious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933-1939. Publisher Fact Sheet. Describes his family; the life they led; and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner. He explores his own ambivalent feelings--then and now--toward Germany and the Germans. This insightful account is a significant contribution to the history of German Jewry and to the art of autobiography....
Author
Language
English
Description
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are absolutely crucial for understanding the rise of antisemitism...
17) The great escape
Series
Criterion collection ; 1027
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom." --
18) Irmina
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina...
19) The Great Escape
Language
English
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Description
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
Author
Publisher
Lake Avenue Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"It was the summer of 1938. The Anschluss had joined Germany and Austria, and Nazis were raising havoc among Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. Howard Hughes flew around the world to promote peace. And Americans were dancing to Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Martha Nicklas, of Erie, Pennsylvania, was sailing to France on the Normandie, the greatest ocean liner ever built. She was on her way to teach English at a school for girls in Aix-en-Provence....