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Time of fear

2005
In World War II more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and relocate to military camps dotted across the western United States. Tells the story of the 16,000 men, women, and children who were sent to two relocation camps in southeast Arkansas - one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America.

D-day

Reflections of courage
2004
Breathes life into the true stories of a day that defined a generation. After twenty-four hours of bloodshed and heroism on June 6th. 1944, the tide turned and a new world was born. Discover the plans, the people, the courage and the sacrifice that led to that unforgettable day.

Kamikaze

death from the sky
1989
American Sailors ran for cover as Japanese Kamikaze pilots came diving from the sky. With suicide on their minds and planes packed with bombs, the doomed pilots became the dreaded terror of U.S. naval carriers in the Pacific.

The Lost Battalion

2001
October 2, 1918, American trops were surrounded by German trops in the Argonne Forest. They managed to hold them off for 5 days until they were rescued without food or water.

The day they bombed Pearl Harbor

1990
See firsthand, in this award-winning documentary by famed filmaker John Ford, the events that led up to and took place during the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor.

Mussolini

1990
He was a ruler with no identity, a man who neither understood himself nor his country. Includes his private war with Adolf Hitler, his march on Rome, and his theatrical personality.

The Wannsee Conference

screenplay by Paul Mommertz; directed by Heinz Schirk; a co-production of Infafilm GMBH Munich, Manfred Korytowski, and Austrian Television O.R.F., and Bavarian Broadcasting Corp
1987
The horror of the Holocaust began on January 20, 1942, when key representatives of the SS, the Nazi Party, and the government bureaucracy met secretly at a house in Wannsee, a quiet Berlin suburb, to discuss "The Final Solution.".

America and the holocaust

deceit and indifference
1994
Documentary on America's anti-Semitic social and political climate in the thirties and forties even in the face of the Nazi persecution in Germany.

The Holocaust

problems and perspectives of interpretation
2003
This volume brings together some of the most important and stimulating contributions to our understanding of Nazi genocide. These readings have been selected for the purpose of acquainting students with a variety of views, some of classic stature, others very recent.

In the shadow of the swastika

1998
He was known as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason.

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