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Adolf Hitler

2016
The one person at whose feet the blame for both the Holocaust and World War II can be laid is Adolf Hitler. Readers will learn how Hitler rose to power and the horrific ways that he made use of that power once he had accumulated it. This biography discusses Hitler’s role in the so-called Final Solution and also touches on the impact Hitler still has today. It offers a wealth of detail about the various stages of the F?uhrer’s life and examines the influence he had on both those in his inner circle and the German public at large. Understanding a despicable person may not be inspiring, but that does not mean it’s not worthwhile.

Adolf Eichmann

2016
This biography of one of the key figures of the Jewish Holocaust is important for understanding the details that led to one of the most grisly periods of human history, as well as for those looking to bear witness to the Holocaust. The biography details Eichmann’s life as a young man, how he moved up the ranks within the Nazi regime, and his eventual self-exile to Argentina, where he hid until he was discovered and brought to trial for his crimes.

The devil's diary

Alfred Rosenberg and the stolen secrets of the Third Reich
2016
This contextualized narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia explores the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's 'chief social philosopher'. It also chronicles the hunt for the diary, which was lost for almost three quarters of a century.

They thought they were free

the Germans, 1933-45
1966
Chronicles the experiences of ten Nazi men after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich.

Prisoner of night and fog

In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.

I am my own wife

studies for a play about the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
2004
A one-man show based on the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East Berlin transvestite who survived World War II and received the Order of Merit from the German government after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Hitler

2002
A biography of Adolf Hitler, chronicling his life from his early struggles as an obscure Austrian artist, and tracing his rise to power as leader of the Nazi party and the German nation, and describing his ambitions that brought the entire world into a military conflict.

The logic of evil

the social origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933
1996
A sociological examination of Nazi Party members that studies who joined the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1933 and why they did; asserts that the major reason for Nazi membership was material self-interest.

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