Eischeid, Susan J.
Summary: This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FINManvell, Roger
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MANSummary: Narrated by Udo Kier, the film asks what the Nazi cinema of the Third Reich reveals about its period and its people. About 1,000 feature films were made in Germany in the years between 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, and war films. Only a few were overtly Nazi propaganda films. But by the same token, even fewer of them can be considered harmless entertainment. How did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Hett, Benjamin Carter
Summary: "A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In [this book], Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 HETConfino, Alon
Summary: "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 CONSummary: World War II saw the first full-scale aerial battles, as well as an unprecedented degree of air attacks against civilians. This program looks at both the Royal Air Force's attacks on Berlin, and the Luftwaffe's retaliatory bombing of London. Along with footage of dogfights, the program also looks at Germany's formidable anti-aircraft guns. At the behest of the Nazi party, the German military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pen & Sword 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERWyllie, James
Summary: "Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann-names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men-complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 WYLChilders, Thomas
Summary: A series of 12 half-hour lectures on a college course level. Covers the rise of the Nazi party and the Third Reich in power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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Fritzsche, Peter
Summary: "Over just a few months in spring 1933, Germany transformed from a deeply divided republic into a one-party Nazi dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche offers a probing new account of the dramatic and pivotalperiod when Germans became Nazis and the Third Reich began. Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 FRIUllrich, Volker
Summary: "A comprehensive new biography of Hitler focusing on the dictator's personality"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITLER, ADOLPH ULLKershaw, Ian.
Summary: This first book of a two-volume account of Hitler's domination of the German people brings readers closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITLER, ADOLF KERMiller, Scott
Summary: "Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULLES, ALLEN MILKershaw, Ian.
Summary: Drawing on many previously underutilized resources--including the diaries of Joseph Goebbels--a portrait of Hitler encompasses events preceding World War II as well as the war years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITSummary: Through their own words and their stories Ultimate Price highlights the witness of seven men and women compelled by their Christian faith to resist the idolatrous Nazi regime. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbis Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ULTSummary: Documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian who was one of the first to openly resist Adolf Hitler. Features photographs, archival footage, and interviews with family members, friends, students, and associates of Bonhoeffer, including the last interview with Bonhoeffer's close friend and historian, Eberhard Bethge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journey Films 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BONSummary: "On May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his Thousand Year Reich were crushed to extinction between Russia and the Allied forces. Join The History Channel in a look back at the individuals and events surrounding this watershed day. It captures both the celebrations and the heartbreak of the end of the European war; chronicling our reentry into a post-Hitler world that could never be the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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Summary: "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014