Alikhan, Salima
Summary: During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes--and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 GADMcCormick, Patricia
Summary: Traces the life of the German theologian and pacifist, whose faith led him to speak out against the Nazis and participate in an assassination plot that targeted Adolf Hitler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BONNelson, Anne
Summary: The "Rote Kapelle," or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo's name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who battled treacherous odds to unveil the brutal secrets of their fascist employers and oppressors. For many members of the Red Orchestra, these audacious acts of courage resulted in their tragic and untimely end. This is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 NELDunkel, Tom
Summary: "The riveting and tension-filled story of a small group of conspirators who plotted relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. Behind the front lines of World War II, a clandestine war within a war was being waged in Nazi Germany. As the "Final Solution" unfolded and fascism swept across Europe, a network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 DUNMiller, 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 MILWest, Nigel
Summary: As the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler’s Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to the Allies and bitter disputes with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) added to a collapse in morale. Most notably was the increasing opposition within the officer ranks of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frontline Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WESSummary: 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 ULTDonner, Rebecca
Summary: Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARNACK-FISH, MILDRED DONHett, Benjamin Carter
Summary: "Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HETGunderson, Jessica
Summary: In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries. In France, groups of anti-Nazi citizens, known as the French Resistance, fought to stop Germany's reign of terror. A brave woman named Nancy Wake became one of the movement's greatest assets as a spy. In her role, Wake often transported Jews to safe locations and rode her bicycle through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023