prisoners and prisons, german

"For decades the story of Ravensbr?ck was hidden behind the Iron Curtain, and today it is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War and interviews with survivors who have never talked before, Sarah Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved. Far more than a catalog of atrocities, however, Ravensbr?ck is also a[n] ... account of what one survivor called 'the heroism, superhuman tenacity, and exceptional willpower to survive.' For every prisoner whose strength failed, another found the will to resist through acts of self-sacrifice and friendship, as well as sabotage, protest, and escape"--Amazon.com.

When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

A biography of the German Protestant pastor whose resistance to the Nazi regime led to his imprisonment and execution.

How buried WWII memories brought a boy and his grandfather together.

Chronicles the experiences of American prisoners of war who, in late 1944, were sent to the brutal slave-labor camp at Berga-an-der-Elster in Germany.

Marta Nederman escapes a Nazi prison camp and meets Paul, an American soldier, but their plans for a life together end after Paul's plane crashes, leaving Marta alone and pregnant and forcing her to marry a British diplomat who brings Marta happiness and security, until a ghost from her past exposes a Communist spy in their midst.

Combines historical narrative and analysis, first-person accounts, and photographs from official and private collections to tell the story of the liberation of German concentration camps as experienced by American soldiers and other eyewitnesses.