atrocities

Provides information about war criminals hiding in the United States and other countries.

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.

Contains a biography of Heinrich Himmler, the chief architect of implementing Adolf Hilter's plan to kill 11 million Jews during World War II, including information on his rise through the ranks of the SS, his betrayal of Hitler, and his attempt to escape justice.

Presents a short history of Adolf Eichman, the Nazi SS officer charged with orchestrating the killing of millions of Jews during World War Two, and describes the efforts of Nazi hunters to locate him and bring him to trial.

Presents volume one in an eight-volume series featuring Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Adolf Eichmann played in the systematic extermination of over six million Jews during World War Two and provides information on his youth, his rise in the Nazi Party, and escape, capture, and execution in 1962.

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor imprisoned at Auschwitz, tells of his experiences serving under Josef Mengele, during which he was forced to perform experiments and autopsies on fellow inmates and treated the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who were routinely executed after four months of forced labor in the crematoria.

Describes how gypsies were persecuted by the Nazis during World War II and explains why Nazi policies towards the gypsies was confused and changeable.

Offers a general history of the Holocaust and addresses many of the core issues and debates surrounding it.

Tomiko Higa tells the story of how she survived the Battle of Okinawa during World War II at the age of seven after she became separated from her family.