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The Swiss, the gold, and the dead

1998
Discusses the role of Swiss banks in the financing of German efforts during World War II, arguing that Swiss banks laundered money taken from Holocaust victims and provided loans and ammunition to German forces.

Hitler's willing executioners

ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
1996
A study of how and why the Holocaust occurred, presenting the author's conclusions about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, German antisemitism, and the nature of German society during the Nazi period, arguing that the German people were willing participants in the brutalization and murder of Jews.

Wallenberg

missing hero
1995
Biography of the young Swede who rescued over a hundred thousand Jews during World War II using special passports and working permits. He disappeared behind the Russian Army lines at the end of the war and his fate is still unknown.

All but my life

1995
The author tells of the three years she endured as a slave laborer of the Nazis during World War II.

Resource guide

a comprehensive listing of media for further study
1998
Annotated lists of books and other materials, including videos and CD-ROMs, that support study of the Holocaust.

Maus

a survivor's tale
1986
A memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Things we couldn't say

1994
Story of Diet Eman and her fianc?, Hein Sietsma, who during World War II aided the resistance and helped rescue hundreds of Dutch Jews.

Ideology of death

why the Holocaust happened in Germany
1996
Examines the historical influences that led up to the Holocaust, showing that German anti-Semitism was not just a product of Nazi fanaticism, but was born of a racist ideology that has its roots in the Napoleonic era.

Strange and unexpected love

a teenage girl's Holocaust memoirs
1993

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