national socialism

"A comprehensive new biography of Hitler focusing on the dictator's personality"--Provided by publisher.

American Mimi Schwartz grew up on her father's stories about life in a small village in Germany where, before Hitler, "everybody got along." She never took the stories seriously. Many years later she heard a story of the Torah, from that very same village, being rescued by Christians on Kristallnacht in 1938. It was then that Schwartz realized what her father's stories meant, and she began a twelve-year quest to search the historical records and talk with those who remembered that time. How, this book asks, do we deal with evil and remain humane, when, as in the Nazi years, hate rules?.

"As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels' descent into antisemitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler's inner circle and where he shaped a brutal campaign of Nazi propaganda. In life and in his grisly family suicide, Goebbels was one of Hitler's most loyal accolytes. Though powerful in the party and in wartime Germany, Longerich's Goebbels is a man dogged by insecurities and consumed by his fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Longerich engages and challenges the careful self-portrait that Goebbels left behind in his diaries, and, as he delves deep into the mind of Hitler's master propagandist, Longerich discovers first-hand how the Nazi message was conceived. This complete portrait of the man behind the message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the holocaust for years to come"--.

Marie Jalowicz Simon was born in 1922 into a middle-class Jewish family. In 1942, during World War II, while living in Berlin, she resolved to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, and disappeared into the city. For years Marie took shelter wherever it was offered---living with circus performers, communists and Nazi loyalists. She learned to leave quickly, melt into the landscape, and be as anonymous as possible. After the war ended, she became a full professor of the literary cultural history of classical antiquity at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She rarely spoke about her past but left an oral history of her wartime experiences with her son before her death in 1998.

Dramatizes the story of Adolf Hitler and his rise to power from the beginning, including the forming of the Nazi Party.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Explores the myths and theories surrounding Adolf Hitler's life, and attempts to explain why he killed thousands of Jews during World War II.

"Describes the geopolitical circumstances that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich"--Provided by publisher.