nazis

As the Minister for Propaganda and Culture, Joseph Goebbels shaped the German people’s perception of the Nazi Party, drumming up public support for anti-Semitism and the war effort through films, speeches, and restrictions on the press and other media. This biography covers his life and the progression of his career from a brilliant young student prejudiced against Jews to a powerful leader who worshipped Hitler and fervently supported the Holocaust. Goebbels’ legacy as a master of propaganda is explored, while sidebars include features on Holocaust remembrance events and the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht.

This contextualized narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia explores the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's 'chief social philosopher'. It also chronicles the hunt for the diary, which was lost for almost three quarters of a century.

When wealthy Chicago philanthropist Elliot Rosenzweig is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, he hires attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, and to her he reveals his Polish families history involving an abandoned child named Otto Piatek.

"Cory Woodford, aka 'The Kid', is determined to live up to his intimidating family legacy of bravery. While his father is off fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Cory and his friends spend the summer building go-carts, drawing comics, playing baseball ... and tracking down Nazi spies. Right and wrong are more complicated than in Cory's beloved comics, and he and his friends soon learn that the world isn't as black and white as they thought. In an age when friendships are deep and complex, Cory makes mistakes and hurtful decisions. Based on the author's personal experience and research..."--Provided by publisher.

Hitler implemented ordered the construction of thousands of camps that removed Jews from society, worked them to death, and murdered them in gas chambers.

"Kalinka is in danger. She is alone on the frigid, snowy Ukrainian steppe. She is pursued by Nazis. Tracked like prey. The cold is strangling her, and the hunger won't go away. No food, no warmth, no help. Except for a loyal dog and two remarkable horses she is trying to save, against all odds. Her only allies. Are they enough?"--from back cover.

Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.

Gretchen Muller and her family were family friends of Adolph Hitler before he became a monster. After escaping Germany, Gretchen developed three rules for staying alive--blend in with her surroundings, never reveal her true identity, and never, under any circumstances, go back to Germany. However, when her new life is threatened, she must break rule three and risk everything to go back home.

"The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.