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[2016]
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Nazi Germany's Holocaust has become something of a benchmark for all other genocides. This instructive volume offers readers insight into the background of its mastermind, Adolf Hitler, and sets the stage for the appalling fates of so many minorities, including Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other allegedly "inferior" groups of people in Germany, who were tortured, held captive, and slaughtered. Readers will also learn about their lives...
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[2011]
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Tells the story of a single day that forever transforms the people of Burgdorf, Germany, in which an otherwise gifted and passionate teacher becomes seduced by Hitler's propaganda during the early months of his regime and encourages her ten-year-old students to join the Hitler youth.
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2011
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Explains why the Nazis were able to gain power in Germany in the early twentieth century, features excerpts from speeches, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials that provide insights into the rise of the Nazis in the wake of World War I, and includes photographs and opinions from historians.
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2022.
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"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
31) Hitler Youth
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2004
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The recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933. Michael Kater traces the history of Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversation, and the subsequent fate of young recruits.
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[2002]
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IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 11
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For most people, the name Adolf Hitler represents the darkest, most abominable possibilities of human nature. To this day, almost sixty years after his death, Hitler is a figure who inspires anger, fear, and hatred. A brilliant politician, Hitler held the entire German nation in his sway with promises of renewal and prosperity, even as he devised a strategy to dominate most of Europe. As he systematically carried out his plan, he set World War...
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When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers tell...
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In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports--but it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable...
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1991
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In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union-where the vast majority of German troops fought-to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of...
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