Holocaust category: 1392 books
Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial—the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation—neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of “Subsequent Trials”—ignores the unique historical...
The Nazi Genocide of the Roma
Reassessment and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies of France, Austria, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia generate a critical mass of evidence that indicates criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime...
The Anatomy of Murder
Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to...
Displaced Person
A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella E. Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood -- one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream....
World War 2 Women: Incredible Stories And Accounts Of World War 2 Women Spies, Heroes And Informers
World War 2 Women, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Clichéd though it may be, a human being’s true strength of character is reflected in the most difficult of times. The world had to sit up and take note of just how strong a woman could be when the two world wars hit.
Even taking the side of the traditionalists, one could deny that women...
The Scene of the Mass Crime
History, Film, and International Tribunals
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been crucial...
by Wulf H Utian
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
From 1881 to 1914, more than 2.5 million Jews migrated from Eastern Europe to countries like the United States, Cuba, and South Africa. This short book is a pictorial record of a search for information about the roots of two young brothers who were part of that migration. They left Pasval, Lithuania,...
Being Present
Growing Up in Hitlers Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
“Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted...
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.
Based primarily oninterviewswith...
Final Solutions
Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Final Solutions offers a ground-breaking and genuinely unique analysis of modern genocide. Sabby Sagall draws on the insights of the Frankfurt school and Wilhelm Reich to create an innovative combination of Marxism and psychoanalysis. He argues that genocide is a product of an ‘irrational’...
Accident of Fate
A Personal Account, 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
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Lika
Imre Rochlitz and Joseph Rochlitz
Germans reported to be approaching small village in Lika region where my family and I have taken refuge. After heated disagreement on what to do, Uncles Robert, Julius and I continue our escape; Aunt Camilla and Uncles Ferdinand and Oskar stay behind and are murdered by SS troops soon afterwards.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Routledge History of Genocide takes an interdisciplinary yet historically focused look at history from the Iron Age to the recent past to examine episodes of extreme violence that could be interpreted as genocidal. Approaching the subject in a sensitive, inclusive and respectful way, each chapter...
I Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp
The incredible story of a war survivor
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
May 1940. Edmond Vandievoet is 34 and wishes only one thing: to serve his country.Enrolled in the Belgian army, he will escape captivity a first time and will flee to Paris, where he will specialize in the passing of men and equipment between Brussels and the French capital.Arrested several times, evaded...
The Investigation
A True Story from Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
On January 30 1933, a German-Jewish civil servant is sitting at his desk at the Baumeisterstrasse Tax Office, in central Hamburg. He has just signed a number of documents and is looking out of the window when one of his staff rushes into the room without knocking and announces that Adolf Hitler...