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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings his along his wife, son and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich. She has one affair after another, including one with the first chief of...
4) Adolf Hitler
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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.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Language
English
Description
"From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from the 1939 invasion of Poland through Adolph Hitler's suicide, and provides testimonies from a variety of people, which includes soldiers, Hitler Youth activists, middle-class housewives, and more.
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Language
English
Description
In the first part, "The Final Solution," the author "records the origins and growth of the virulent ideology that underlay the plan to annihilate the European Jews," and in the second part, "The Holocaust," she describes "the Jewish plight under German terror."--Jacket.
10) Hitler Youth
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Blitzkrieg
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Series
Language
English
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An account of the German campaigns and battles in the first year of World War II which resulted in the conquest of most of Europe.
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Publisher
Modern Library
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A professor of modern Jewish history at Hebrew University offers listeners this thoroughly researched testament to the scale and extent of the Holocaust. Wistrich dissects world political and social climates in order to provide reasons why such an atrocity could occur. By tracing the history of anti-semitism in Europe over two millennia, Wistrich illustrates how pervasive the attitude was around the world.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions,"--NoveList.
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they...
14) Mein Kampf
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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
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central...
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
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler"--
"In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. A year later, all political parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged--soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, diplomats, theologians,...
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
This book "is an illustrated documentary history of the Nazis' largely successful effort to eradicate the Jews and other 'undesirables' of Europe, told in the words of its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Drawing on the most current research in the field of Holocaust Studies, and including Michael Berenbaum's insightful commentary, the book covers: The Boycott, The First Regulatory Assault against Jews, Early Efforts at Spiritual Resistance,...