germany

A biography of the German architect and Nazi leader who served as Minister of Armaments and Munitions under Adolf Hitler. Covers his childhood and marriage, his membership in the Nazi party, the Nuremberg Trials, and his imprisonment at Spandau.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about significant events and people in the life of German leader Adolf Hitler, as well as his policies, use of propaganda, the Holocaust, and other topics. Includes an introduction, a chronology, and maps.

Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from its early promises through the atrocities and suffering of World War II. Includes segments focusing on the occupation of Poland and on the holocaust and concentration camps, particularly Treblinka.

When seventeen-year-old Regine, a Nazi supporter, falls in love with a Polish prisoner in 1944, she notices for the first time the injustices and horrors going on around her and discovers she can no longer be silent.

Illustrates the people of Germany from the powerful Roman Empire through to the 20th century's division and reunification of Germany.

Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl growing up in a city in southern Germany during the period of Hitler's rise to power.

The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.