In 1096, Anna, a German Catholic girl, and Leah, a German Jewish girl, strike up a remarkable friendship and make surprising discoveries about each other.
aspects of behavior, attitudes, and customs in the German-speaking world
Flippo, Hyde
1997
A guide to understanding how Germans think, act, and work that includes explanations of seventy-seven different traits held by people living in German-speaking countries.
Harry Haller, a joyless, reclusive intellectual, finally learns to reconcile the warring parts of his personality after meeting Hermine, a woman who knows how to enjoy life.
The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.
Based on the true story of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple who defied the Third Reich, tells a story of Otto and Anna Quangel who launch a personal resistance campaign against the Gestapo after their only son is killed at the front.
A biography of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and, later, the German nation and whose ambitions led the world to war.
love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
Larson, Erik
2011
William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.
Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.