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Witness to Nuremberg

2006
Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts his interviews with all the top-ranking Nazi criminals during his role as key interrogator for the American prosecution at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1945.

Of German ways

1970
Surveys German history, customs and people and describes the contributions of German immigrants in the United States.

Maria takes a stand

the battle for women's rights
2004
Maria takes up the cause of women's suffrage in Minneapolis near the beginning of World War I and must rely on God to give her the strength to do the right thing.

The Germans

2006
Chronicles the experiences of German immigrants who have come to the United States throughout history and explores how they have shape the culture and achievements of the nation.

Fire on the hillside

2001
Katherine is upset when her family leaves their home in Germany to settle in Fredericksburg, Texas, and then when her father joins a group hoping to make peace with the Comanche, she worries even more.

Foolish Gretel

1997
In 1855 in Galveston, Texas, ten-year-old Gretel and her two spoiled, complaining sisters all hope to be accepted as a companion to Frau Dimpel, the richest German lady in town.

Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offense

1992
Story of Tod T. Friendly, now living in a peaceful American suburb, but who once worked in the medical section of Auschwitz.

German Americans

2007
Chronicles the immigration experience of German Americans from the eighteenth through the twentieth century, provides background on German history and society, explaining why people chose to leave, looks at German communities in the U.S., and includes a time line, glossary, and resources for further study.

Keep smiling through

1996
A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do.

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