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Klemperer, Victor
ISBN: 0679456961
Translated by Martin Chalmers. This symphony of voices is ordered by the brilliant, grumbling Klemperer, struggling to complete his work on eighteenth-century France while documenting the ever-tightening Nazi grip. He loses first his professorship and then his car, his phone, his house, even his typewriter, and is forced to move into a Jews' House (the last step before the camps), put his cat to death (Jews may not own pets), and suffer countless other indignities.
Koonz, Claudia
ISBN: 0674018427
Koonz traces how the Nazis developed a rationale for their genocidal policies against the Jews and how they used a range of media to convince the German people of the necessity and indeed, the morality, of those policies.
Kühne, Thomas
ISBN: 0300121865
This work explores how the Nazis used the concepts of community and belonging as a means to promote conformity and solidarity, resulting in mass crime and genocide.
ISBN: 1584657413
Through discussion and analysis of such topics as representation, silence, and denial, Lang examines the philosophical issues inherent in attempting to comprehend the Holocaust.
Lanicek, Jan and Jordan, James
ISBN: 978-0853038757
An in depth look at the 'Jewish policy' of governments-in-exile that were created during WWII.
Large, David Clay
ISBN: 0393058840
Large discusses the Olympics in historical context and exposes the propaganda and politics behind the 1936 games.
ISBN: 030740885X
Larson charts the daily experiences of US Ambassador William Dodd in Berlin from 1933 to 1937.
ISBN: 0521607825
Leff explores why The New York Times failed to inform its readers about the genocide of European Jewry as it was taking place.
Levendel, Isaac and Bernard Weisz
ISBN: 1936274310
Explores how the Nazi and Vichy regimes made use of freelance Jew hunters to track down and round up Jews in Southern France.
Levi, Primo
ISBN: 0684826801
Levi's haunting memories of his ten months in Auschwitz. The author gives an unforgettable description of the systematic cruelty and his miraculous survival.
Levi, Primo
ISBN: 067972186x
This book is an attempt by Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, to understand and explain the phenomenon of Auschwitz. In his quest, Levi tries to answer unanswerable questions about power, disgrace and conspiracy.
Levine, Hillel
ISBN: 0684832518
Levine explores why a little-known Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara risked his career during World War II by issuing transit visas to thousands of Jews fleeing Hitler's troops and concludes that mercy, like evil, often has no visible roots.
ISBN: 0853037280
Explores the myths surrounding Raoul Wallenberg and argues that his rescue efforts must be examined and understood within the historical context of that time.
Lifton, Betty Jean
ISBN: 0312155603
This is a biography of Janusz Korczak, an advocate of children's rights who saved hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. Korczak had an opportunity to escape but chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the orphans in his care.
London, Louise
ISBN: 0521534496