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Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c1975
Language
English
Description
In 1944, as an act of resistance and commitment to their Christian faith, Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Dutch Jews from the Nazi regime. Eventually, Corrie and her family were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Scheveningen and the concentration camp, Vught.
While imprisoned, she communicated with her loved ones through letters filled with stories of unimaginable trials, resilience, and her unfailing faith in the Lord. This collection of deeply...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the early hours of July 13, 1942, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of the German Order Police, entered the Polish Village of Jozefow. They had arrived in Poland less than three weeks before, most of them recently drafted family men too old for combat service--workers, artisans, salesmen, and clerks. By nightfall, they had rounded up Jozefow's 1,800 Jews, selected several hundred men as "work Jews," and shot the rest--that is, some...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Napoleon's surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A German woman recounts her youth during World War II under Hitler's regime in this "richly texture memoir" (Publishers Weekly).
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden-just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat-Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, schoolteachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of a people who embarked on, continued and fought to the end a brutal...
8) Sniper ace: from the eastern front to Siberia; Bruno Sutkus, the autobiography of a Wehrmacht sniper
Author
Publisher
Frontline
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A German sniper in World War II provides a first-hand account of his time on the Eastern Front, based primarily on the sniper log that he entrusted to a Red Cross nurse in 1945 and recovered from her in 1997, after intervening years of more warfare and Siberian exile. Includes 48 p. of portraits, reproductions of the author's personal documents and diary pages from World War II. Includes notes from the German publisher.
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
The author was a keen recruit...
Publisher
Frontline Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war's end as Hitler's bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications. On the Berghof terrace he watched Eva Braun organize parties; observed Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer; and monitored telephone conversations from Berlin to the East Prussian FHQ on 20 July 1944 after the attempt on Hitler's...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The stunning memoir of a girl coming of age in Hitler's Germany, her subsequent imprisonment in the Russian Gulag, and her posthumously discovered love letters to a mysterious soldier on the front-written during the final siege of Berlin."--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A committed Social Democrat and steadfast opponent of Nazism, Kellner went to Laubach to escape retribution from Nazi activists in Mainz. Ironically, his destination was itself a stronghold of Nazism. In the Reichstag election of July 1932, the NSDAP had received 62.9 percent of the votes cast in Laubach, in contrast to the 37.3 percent of the vote attained by the Nazis nationally. The Social Democrats, who in the closing days of the Weimar Republic...
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