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.
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.
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.
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.
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.