berlin

Examines the effects of World War II on the people of Berlin, with emphasis on the city as the strategic center of Adolph Hitler's Nazi government.

The choice of Germany as the host nation for the 1936 Olympics carried a terrible irony: the 1916 Games had been given to Berlin in a bid to avoid a European conflict. The 1936 Games, awarded before Hitler came to power, were to be a celebration of peace for Germany, proof that the nation had lived up to the Treaty of Versailles. Instead they were distorted into a Nazi propaganda exercise.

Presents a memoir of a child who lived in Berlin during World War II and how it affected three generations of middle-class German women who endured the bombing, Russian and Allied occupation, the Berlin Airlift, and post-war recovery.

Marianne Kohn, a Jewish girl living in Berlin in 1938, watches as the Nazi regime tears her family and community apart, until finally she is forced to leave her mother and her home and travel to safety in England.

Biography of Stella Goldschlag, a beautiful, blond German Jew, who became part of the Gestapo during World War II.

The story of a dozen Jewish men and women who managed to live out the war years in Berlin, often with the help of German friends.

The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.

Henry Oertelt chronicles the experiences he had while being held in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Presents the story of Knut, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, and the efforts of Thomas Dorflein, a zookeeper who nurtured and fed him after the cub's mother rejected him.