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World War II was an extremely violent war. This title examines how Hitler set about expanding German territory by force, first by annexing Czechoslovakia and then by invading Poland. When Hitler's military unleashed the Blitzkrieg campaign on Poland in September 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany and World War II began.

Accessible text details the murderous policies that the Hitler and the Nazis inflicted upon Jews and other "undesirables" in occupied Europe during the Holocaust. The book documents developments under the Nazi regime, including the exclusion of Jews from German life in the 1930s through the systematic murder of millions of European Jews.

During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.

A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Provides a history of the Holocaust during World War II focusing on the destruction of European Jews, and discusses the historical importance of the Holocaust from a contemporary perspective; includes a chronology of events, biographies of major figures, and a selection of primary documents.

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

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.

An account based on the author's personal record of the months during which she hid from Nazis in an underground bunker with seventeen others discusses the characteristics of their unlikely protector and the house fire that threatened everyone's survival.

Ursula Bacon recounts the experiences she had while living in Shanghai after she and her parents escaped the terror of the Third Reich.