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Nuremberg

tyranny on trial
2005
Provides an overview of the Nuremberg Trials in which Nazi leaders were prosecuted for World War II atrocities, looking at the cases of such defendants as Rudolf Hesse and Hermann Goering, talking with witnesses to the proceedings, and discussing the lasting influence of the trials on the world community.

Needless deaths in the Gulf War

civilian casualties during the air campaign and violations of the laws of war
1991

Official secrets

what the Nazis planned, what the British and Americans knew
1998
Draws from documents declassified over fifty years after the end of World War II to describe and analyze the degree to which the Nazis planned and improvised the Holocaust, the attitudes and participation of ordinary Germans in the killings, and the Western allies' knowledge of and reaction to the extermination of the Jews.

Ordinary men

Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland
1993

Inside the concentration camps

eyewitness accounts of life in Hitler's death camps
1996

Tiger Force

a true story of men and war
2010
A true account of the atrocities committed by an experimental fighting unit known as the "Tiger Force" in Vietnam in 1967 and how their actions were covered up by the United States government for almost four decades.

Children of the flames

Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
1992
Victims of Dr. Mengele's medical experiments in Auschwitz discuss their ordeals and life after Auschwitz.

A Mosaic of Victims

Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis
1990
Two beginning essays on the history of genocide and the uniqueness of the Holocaust lends its self to the exploration of Nazi slave labor polices. The book then tells the Nazi policies in the occupied territ- ories of Serbia,Croatia, Belgiun, France, Poland, Yugoslavia, the Ukranine, and the USSR. The remaining chapters examine Nazi treatment of Gypsies, RussianPOW's, homosexuals, Catholic activists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and pacifists as well as Nazi medical experimentation policies.

The "Last" Nazi

The Life and Times of Dr. Joseph Mengele
1986
Biography on Dr. Mengele "The Angel of Death".

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