Holocaust category: 1392 books

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s...

OBJECTIVE: EXTERMINATION “There were in reality three Auschwitz camps… Auschwitz I...with its two ovens and the mild death rate of a thousand or so per day. Auschwitz II...where the death rate was stepped up to six thousand per day, with a world record of twenty-two thousand deaths...

Born 1902 in Warsaw and a law student in Warsaw and Paris, author Jerzy Gliksman became active in the Bund’s youth organization and in its political party in 1917, eventually becoming a member of the Bund’s Central Committee. He was voted in as one of the Bund’s councilmen in Warsaw during the...

Edith Eger was 16 jaar oud toen ze in 1944 naar Auschwitz werd gedeporteerd. Haar ouders werden direct naar de gaskamer gestuurd, Edith werd gedwongen om voor Mengele te dansen. Haar onverschrokkenheid hielp haar en haar zusje te overleven, al waren ze nog maar nauwelijks in leven toen het kamp eindelijk...

A groundbreaking study of what happened to children—of all nationalities and religions—living under the Nazi regime. Drawing on a wide range of new sources, Witnesses of War reveals the stories of life under the Third Reich as never before. As the Nazis overran Europe, children were saved or damned...

Eichmann... THE MAN, THE CRIMES. This book is a documentary presentation of the case prosecuting attorneys could present against the greatly captured Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. Using affidavits, testimony from the Nuremberg trials, captured German documents, statements...

BnF collection ebooks. "Où allez-vous, jeunes gens, où allez-vous, étudiants, qui courez en bandes par les rues, manifestant au nom de vos colères et de vos enthousiasmes, éprouvant l'impérieux besoin de jeter publiquement le cri de vos consciences indignées ? Allez-vous protester...

Nazism opened the door to global terrorism. It designed a structural evil in which no one was safe, not even the German people themselves. The enemy: anyone able to think freely for themselves, in a manner contrary to rules dictated by the Nazis. The Aryans were merely "manufactured individuals," designed...

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent...

In 'Het verboden boek' onderzoekt schrijver en historicus Ewoud Kieft 'Mein Kampf', een boek waar velen een mening over hebben, maar dat vrijwel niemand heeft gelezen. Door onverwachte gebeurtenissen raakte Kieft verstrikt in wat ooit de bijbel van het nationaalsocialisme was. Hij besloot 'Mein Kampf'...

This uninhibited memoir by controversial writer/sexologist Gloria G. Brame, Ph.D. spares no details about the transformation of a girl into a woman. Naked Memory paves a new path in sex history, fearlessly depicting the true psychological landscape of sex, from the shocking sexual revelations of puberty...

“An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther’s anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich.” —Contemporary Church History Quarterly The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews...

Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of Adolf Hitler, the twelve years of the Third Reich were one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the Nazi Party rose to a position of absolute power in Germany, bringing with it the militarization of society, the apparatus...

"A rogues gallery of social misfits formed the Nazis' inner cirlce. They hated and conspired against each other, but were held together by their admiration for the Führer, and step by step they dragged their nation towards the abyss. Drawing on a wide range of sources, author Paul Roland unravels the...