Night by Elie Wiesel: The Lessons of the Holocaust: The Nazi Regime
Through Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, the reader gets a sense of what it was like to be a young person caught in the maelstrom of the Nazi Holocaust and the growing darkness that resulted in a never-ending night of prejudice, devastation, and death.
Chronicles the life of Albert Speer, who acted as Adolf Hitler's architect and filled other key roles in the Nazi Party during the Second World War, describing his activities in the Third Reich and his fate after the war, and providing historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.
Primary source documents explain the concept of dictatorship, how it evolved, who is involved, and the modern dictators of today.
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Contains seventeen essays, most previously published in the "New York Review of Books," and the "New Republic," in which the author discusses some of the many academic texts that have appeared on the topics of Hitler, the Nazis, and the Holocaust.
Recreates a sequence of ten decisions made by world leaders, including Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Mussolini, from 1940 to 1941 that changed the course of human history.
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A collection of essays in which the author examines specific aspects of German history in the twentieth century, providing details on the background of World War II, and discussing the Nazi system, and other topics related to the war and its aftermath.
Presents a documented history of Adolf Hitler and how he came to power, and chronicles the control the Nazis had over the German people, Nazi propaganda, the Holocaust, and the fall of Hitler and the Nazi party.
Discusses fascist ideology, Germanic ideology, the problem of German unity, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazis, both World Wars, the Holocaust, the aftermath of National Socialism, and the debate over Hitler's place in German history.
Chronicles the life of Adolf Hitler and discusses the events that made his rise to power in Germany possible, the affect World War I had on his rule, the reasons his ideas were so popular, and other related topics.
Discusses the structure, processes, and personalities that governed the Third Reich's military decision making, and shows how the German army was undermined by poor planning at the highest levels.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the social and political cataclysm that spread throughout Europe between 1914 and 1945; and describes how the world was changed by the events of two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich.
Examines the clandestine and not-so-hidden celebration and continuation of the Nazi cause in Germany, Austria, and around the world, discussing Germans of the old regime and young neo-Nazis, right-wing politicians and intellectuals, denial of the Holocaust, and possible dangers for the future.
Chronicles the life of Adolf Hitler and describes the consequences his quest for German dominance and his hatred of the Jews brought upon the entire world.
Presents a comprehensive narrative account of the destruction of Vienna during the Nazi occupation of 1938, and describes the removal of over two hundred thousand Jews and the changes in government, education, architecture, and culture under the Third Reich.
Chronicles the life of Albert Speer, who acted as Adolf Hitler's architect and filled other key roles in the Nazi Party during the Second World War, describing his activities in the Third Reich and his fate after the war, and providing historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.
An illustrated chronicle of Adolf Hitler's life, describing his childhood and service in the army, his long-held hatred of the Jews, his rise to power, and the destruction he caused during the Second World War through his military aggression and the Holocaust.
With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present....The book concludes with a provocative account of the rise and decline of the twentieth century's overtly racist regimes--the Jim Crow South, Nazi Germany, and apartheid South Africa--in the context of world historical developments.
Examines the activities of some of the prominent men in the world of art who chose to cooperate and collaborate with the Nazi regime; and argues that a network of these experts, rehabilitated after the war, is a key to the looted artworks still unaccounted for at the end of the twentieth century.
Describes the atrocities committed against Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, and other minorities in the German concentration camps, and the many trials which brought to justice some of those who were responsible.