Lynn H Nicholas: 2 books
Cruel World
The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison,...
The Rape of Europa
The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told...