1933-1945

The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.

Examines Italy's foreign policy in the late interwar period, drawing from declassified materials to discuss the nature of Benito Mussolini's relationship with Adolf Hitler and his decision to declare war against England and France in 1940.

The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.

The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anita's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.

Argues that World War II was the direct result of Hitler's racial hatred and was eventually used as a veil behind which Hitler implemented and masked his genocidal ambitions.

Profiles five Catholic theologians who were born during the Kulturkampf, grew up during the Hitler era, and had a major influence on Catholicism in the English-speaking world.

Draws from memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men in an attempt to understand how encroaching fascism and antisemitism affected Jews in their daily lives in pre-World War II Germany; and discusses how the Jewish people coped with the loss of friends, careers, businesses, and hope.

In 1938, after a minor traffic accident, seventeen-year-old Egon Katz joins an increasing number of German Jews desperately trying to find a way out of the country.