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Series
History undercover volume AAE-72429
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This video travels the country to tell the little-known story of these formerly top-secret facilities. Find out how US planners prepared for a few thousand detainees and ended up being flooded with as many as 7,200 a week. Hear from former Nazi prisoners and their American guards about life in the camps, where kangaroo courts, secret murders and violent factions thrived in the absence of adequate (or often any) supervision. The program also shows...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explores the 65-year effort to identify, prosecute, and punish the 20th century's most notorious murderers. In the face of apathy, obstruction, and violence, the men and women who pursued Nazi fugitives not only brought a measure of dignity to the victims of the Holocaust, they also reminded the international community that enemies of humanity must be punished, if humanity is to survive.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Leibowitz, who witnessed the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, a man charged with being complicit in the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population.
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Profiles five men who held positions of power in Hitler's regime, reviewing their service to the Third Reich and pointing out the personality defects that made them invaluable to their leader.
Author
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomas Masaryk. Across the border, the Third Reich is menacing - and plotting to invade. In the Czechoslovak heartlands, vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestigious sporting contest: the Grand Pardubice steeplechase. Notoriously dangerous, the race is considered the ultimate...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact,...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler?s administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler?s public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals...