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1933-1945

Catholic theologians in Nazi Germany

2004
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.

Between dignity and despair

Jewish life in Nazi Germany
1998
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.

To cross a line

1994
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.

To cross a line

1995
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.

Journey to America

1993
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.

The German public and the persecution of Jews, 1933-1945

"no one participated, no one knew"
1996
A collection of essays in which eyewitnesses, scholars, and writers discuss the escalating, step-by-step process in the destruction of German Jewry which led to the systematic extermination of millions of Jews during World War II.

Address unknown

2001
A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Nazi Germany.

Between the wars, 1919-1939

the cartoonists' vision
1992
Collection of world political cartoons published in newspapers or magazines between 1919-1939.

Refuge in hell

how Berlin's Jewish Hospital outlasted the Nazis
2003
Describes how Berlin's Jewish Hospital survived as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish patients throughout World War II without being taken over by the Nazis.

The years of extermination

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
2007
Analyzes the persecution and murder of Jews throughout occupied Europe during World War II, examining German extermination policies and measures and their reliance on the cooperation of local authorities.

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