1933-1945

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1933-1945

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.

Kristallnacht

prelude to destruction
2007
Chronicles the events surrounding Kristallnacht, in which Nazi troops and Hitler Youth destroyed Jewish shops and neighborhoods across Germany, and examines how the rest of the world reacted to the act of terror and destruction.

The Holocaust

a German historian examines the genocide
1999
Studies the facts and political decisions that led to the dehumanization and systematic murder of millions of Jews and other ethnic minorities in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II.

New Deal or raw deal?

how FDR's economic legacy has damaged America
2009
A comprehensive look at the economic policies of President Franklin Roosevelt, maintaining that his "New Deal" programs failed to achieve the economic boost the country needed during the Depression.

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