Holocaust category: 1392 books
Nazi Germany and the Jews
Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises...
by Steve Buchsbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Against a backdrop of rival empires and shifting borders, the Buchbaum and Heller families lived in the foothills of the Carpathians mountains for centuries.
Follow Steve Buchsbaum as he visits the Polish and Hungarian villages and towns where his ancestors lived and traces the details of their...
by Andrew Curry
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Liberated concentration visited sites- Auschwitz more than 65 years ago, the Nazicamp is one of Eastern Europes most and most fragile. Can or should be saved? The answers may surprise you.
The Curtain
Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people — the memories were just too painful. Years later, Henry and Corrie began to piece...
by Joanie Schirm
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"The ornately painted Chinese Boxes loomed just out of reach throughout my childhood...but my brother and sister and I paid no attention. The twin, red boxes were part of the familiar-to-the-point-of-being-invisible landscape, like that big tree outside your window with a botanical name you never...
Someday You Will Understand
My Father's Private World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A daughter’s account of her father’s escape from the Nazis—and his journey back to Europe with the US Army to bring them to justice.
The scion of a Jewish merchant family, Walter Wolff fled Germany for Brussels, Belgium, when the Nazis came to power. But his new home was no refuge. On the...
Klaus Barbie
The Butcher of Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The true story of one of Hitler’s most feared and brutal killers: his life and crimes, postwar atrocities, and forty-year evasion of justice.
During World War II, SS Hauptsturmführer Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie earned a reputation for sadistic cruelty unmatched by all but a handful of his...
Children of Nazis
The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time,...
In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a...
by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
With the Nazi invasion of Hungary underway, the German army was determined to round up as many Jews as they could and place them into concentration camps. “A Doctor in Auschwitz” is a harrowing tale of survival. It follows one Jewish doctor who was spared and forced to perform experiments on his...
1924
The Year That Made Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster
Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical...
by Timothy W. Ryback
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler...
Into That Darkness
An Examination of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the five Nazi extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final solution.
School for Barbarians
Education Under the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Published in 1938, when Nazi power was approaching its zenith, this well-documented indictment reveals the systematic brainwashing of Germany's youth. The Nazi program prepared for its future with a fanatical focus on national preeminence and warlike readiness that dominated every department and phase...