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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, risking death to bring the SS...
2) Mein Kampf
Author
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hitler's life and his social and political philosophy. Hitler also states very clearly how he intends to overthrow the German government, as well as outlines his program for the German, and the world's people.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families, friends and lovers. Its creation, and its sudden collapse...
4) Adolf Hitler
Author
Language
English
Description
A biography of Adolf Hitler, based in part on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with people directly involved with his life.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, the war had reached its climax in continental Europe. News of secret diaries kept by Italy's former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women-a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite-risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key evidence against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Just...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the White Rose, a group of students in Nazi Germany who were active undercover agents of the resistance movement agaiainst Hitler and his regime"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months later, working with a group of students, he picked up a spade... and tunneled back in. The goal was to tunnel into the East to help people escape. They spend months digging, hauling up carts of dirt in a tunnel ventilated by stove pipes. But the odds are...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Language
English
Description
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that...
18) The berlin Wall
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A history of the much hated wall that for nearly thirty years divided Berlin and created two separate countries.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In Nazi Saboteurs, Samantha Seiple brings readers into the high-stakes world of Hitler's most trusted team of saboteurs as the eight men are hand-selected by top Nazi officials to be trained in spycraft and sabotage. With black-and-white photos and fast-paced storytelling, readers follow the men to the coasts of New York and Florida, where they work to establish secret identities for themselves in America, identify the country's key military targets,...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of Adolf Hitler, and describes his troubled childhood, service in World War One, entrance into politics, and how he was able to maneuver himself into becoming the most powerful dictator of the twentieth century.