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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After WWI Adolf Hitler attends the meetings of the German Workers Party, a far right political party centred around racism and anti-Semitism; the natural home for Adolf Hitler's political beliefs. He rapidly works his way up and builds a loyal following of the most brutal men in Germany. Capitalising from the broken state of Germany post WWI Hitler sets about his revolution. The infamous Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 was superficially a failure which saw...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
At the end of WWII the Allies declared the Nazi party a criminal organization, and pledged to prosecute and punish the architects and triggermen of genocide. several hundred thousand Gestapo, SS, and Wehrmacht forces had engaged in war crimes and atrocities against civilians. But only a few thousand Nazi criminals and collaborators were convicted at the Nuremberg trials. In the absence of an international manhunt and centralized prosecution, the task...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator-caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power-as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At the war's end, Frankfurt was...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1947
Language
English
Description
This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. Reel 1, Confiscated films from the private collection of Eva Braun show scenes of Nazi life at Berchtesgaden. Reel 2, The International Convention of Variety Clubs presents its humanitarian awards. James F. Byrnes is guest of honor. Reel 3, A Dutch tulip festival and parade in Holland, Mich. Reel 4, A chimp circus at the St. Louis Zoo.
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Series
The 39 clues. Cahill files volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the first Vesper attack on Jan van Eyck's altarpiece at Ghent in the 1600s, then jumps to WWII and young Grace Cahill's desperate bid to save the masterwork from the Nazis.
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English
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"Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, Jürgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jürgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if Jürgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950--Jürgen is one of many German scientists pardoned...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It has been nearly seventy years since Hitler's armies won the war, and sixteen-year-old Zara St. James lives in the Shenandoah hills, part of the Eastern American Territories, under the rule of the Nazis--but a resistance movement is growing, and Zara, who dreams of freedom, may be the key to its success.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1933
Language
English
Description
This Universal newsreel focuses on a Nazi SA parade. Berlin, Germany: An unprecedented display of power and organization by the brown-shirted forces of the German Chancellor marks the final pre-election activities of the Social Democrats, with long columns of uniformed men in spirited procession down Unter den Linden from Brandenburg Gate to the Lustgarten, with Swastika banners fluttering over the Praetorian Guard, the Storm Battalions that back...
13) Max
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nazi Germany. 1936. In the Lebensborn program, carefully selected German women are recruited by the Nazis to give birth to new members of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, literally counting the minutes until he is born and he can fulfill his destiny as the perfect Aryan specimen. Max is taken away from his birth mother soon after he enters the world. Raised under the ideology and direction of the Nazi Party, he grows up without any...
14) Sisu
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
During WWII, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover he is no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu," the legendary ex-commando will embody what it means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And this one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1945
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Courtroom scenes at Dachau, Germany, where a Nazi officer is judged guilty of murdering a prisoner of war. 2. General de Gaulle reviews a parade in Brussels. 3. Scenes of the trial of Pierre Laval in Paris. 4. A U.S. submarine sinks Japanese ships in the Pacific.; Secretary of the Navy Forrestal decorates the submarine commander.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Soviet artillery, tanks, infantry, and ships in action. 2. Canadian soldiers on furloughs to mine coal for the war effort. 3. Supplies delivered via parachute to remote Allied military outposts in India and Burma. 4. A homecoming parade for Australian infantry, rugged veterans of the North African campaign. 5. America bringing aid to war refugees in North Africa. 6. Liberator bombers...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers strike Germany. 2. The destroyer Sullivan is launched. 3. Tanks are tested over an obstacle course. 4. Madame Chiang Kai-shek speaks in the Hollywood Bowl. 5. An Army rescue squad uses a life boat to rescue airmen. 6. Paratroopers jump in practice mission carrying their mascots, boxer pups. 7. Canadian artillery units practice.
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English
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Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?
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