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The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal
By Silvia Foti. 2021
A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war…
hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal. Silvia Foti&’s mother was dying. Wanting to preserve family history, Silvia&’s mother asks her to write a book about Foti&’s grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a famous WWII hero. Foti&’s grandmother tries to intervene - begging her granddaughter not to write about her husband. &“Just let history lie,&” she whispered. Foti had no idea that in keeping her promise to her mother, her discoveries would bring her to a personal crisis, unearth Holocaust denial, and expose an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government that resulted in an internationally-followed lawsuit. Jonas Noreika was a Lithuanian known as General Storm. He led an uprising that won the country of Lithuania back from the communists, only to have it fall under Nazi control. He was an official during the Holocaust and chief of the second largest region in the country during the Nazi occupation, yet he became a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Foti set out to write a heroic biography about her famous grandfather. But as she dug ever deeper, she &“encountered so much evidence proving my flesh and blood &‘hero&’ was a Jew-killer, even I could no longer believe the lie.&” The Nazi's Granddaughter is Foti&’s first-hand account of her journey, which began as an act of family pride and ended with uncovering the secret her family, and an entire nation, had kept hidden for 79 years. It addresses: How should our family&’s past, shameful or noble, shape our identity? How could one man be revered as a hero, having a grammar school named after him, and yet be a villain responsible for the deaths of thousands? Why are some European countries still in denial about their role in the Holocaust? How was this kept secret until now?The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917–91
By Martyn Whittock. 2020
'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its…
incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A Short History of RussiaRepression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies assisted in the establishment of the Soviet state, and helped maintain it in power, but could not, in the end, prevent its collapse.Citizens of the West have, for the most part, been told a very simplified story of the repressive 'totalitarian' state that was the USSR. In fact, it was sustained by more than just policing and force. No amount of revisionist history can erase the reality of millions controlled, imprisoned and killed, but there was much more to the USSR's one-party state than this. Whittock tells a more complex story of the combination of cruelty, co-operation and compromise required to build and run a one-party state. Much of this is the story of the role played by the secret police in creating and sustaining such a form of government, but it is much more than simply a 'history of the secret police'. This is because the 'police state' which emerged (in which dissent, both real and imaginary, was undoubtedly policed, threatened and ruthlessly eliminated) was more than just the product of the arrests, interrogations, executions and imprisonments carried out by the secret police. The USSR was also made possible by a battle for hearts and minds which led millions of people to feel that they really had benefited from the system and had a stake in the new society.Auschwitz Camp of Death
By Underground Poland Speaks. 2019
Auschwitz: Camp of Death, originally published in 1944 as Oswiecim: Camp of Death, is one of the first accounts of…
the Auschwitz (Oswiecim in Polish) concentration camp available to war-time American readers. The book describes the prisoner selection and round-up process in Poland's cities and villages, transportation to Auschwitz, the daily degradations and struggle to survive, and finally, death in the gas chamber. As the author states: “In Auschwitz, wounds never heal.” Included are 2 illustrations and an appendix of known concentration camps in Poland (including names of special camps for clergy members, Jews, women, and children).A Little Village Called Lidice
By Zdena Trinka. 2019
A Little Village Called Lidice, first published in 1947, is an impassioned account of the World War II atrocity committed…
by the Nazis in Lidice, Czechoslovakia. The reprisal was ordered by Hitler following the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942 outside of Prague. On June 9, 1942, Gestapo and other German forces entered the small village of Lidice (chosen apparently at random by the Nazis), rounded up all men and male teenagers 15 and over, and executed them by firing squad (173 in all). Their bodies were placed in a common grave. Some women were also executed, with most transported to concentration camps. A handful of the approximately 100 village children were removed from their mothers to be raised by German families, but over 80 were sent to their death in the extermination camp at Chelmo, where they were placed in sealed trucks and gassed. Following the executions, the village was razed by fire, leveled by explosives, then bulldozed into rubble. The village's famous cherry orchards were also uprooted and destroyed, a small lake was filled-in, and a stream diverted. Grass was planted so that the village was, in effect, obliterated. At war's end, only a few women and 17 Lidice children survived to return to the village. Following the war, houses for a new Lidice were built near the site of the original village, and a memorial erected in honor of those who were killed.Author Zdena Trinka (1892-1967) was a native of North Dakota who wrote a number of additional books, mostly concerning the history of North Dakota. She escaped the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia while on a visit.Innocents Condemned to Death: Chronicles of Survival
By Albert Lazar. 2019
Innocents Condemned to Death: Chronicles of Survival, first published in 1961, is a brief but moving account of the Jewish…
Holocaust in Hungary during World War Two. The book portrays life under the Nazi occupation and provides glimpses into a family's experiences—their separations, deportations to labor camps, interrogations, reuniting, emigration to South America—all interwoven with a powerful faith and will to survive. Included are 4 pages of photographs.German Light Cruisers of World War II: Warships of the Kriegsmarine (Warships Of The Kriegsmarine Ser.)
By Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke. 1994
&“An immensely interesting look&” at the Emden, Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnbergships &“from drawing board to destiny&” (War History…
Online). The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series of six volumes written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with full technical details, and an outline of their service, heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps and a substantial collection of photographs. These have been out of print for ten years or more and are now much sought after by enthusiasts and collectors, so this new modestly priced reprint of the series will be widely welcomed. This volume is devoted to the six ships from Emden to Nürnberg that were built between the wars. They were primarily intended for commerce-raiding, but the war gave them few opportunities for such employment, although they did provide useful support for key naval operations in the Baltic and North Sea. Two were lost in the 1940 Norway campaign, but the remainder survived for most of the conflict. &“A ship-by-ship history of the cruisers. The text is supported by an excellent collection of plans and photographs. Overall this is a very impressive history of a fairly unimpressive set of warships.&”—HistoryOfWar.orgNam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division
By Arthur Wiknik Jr.. 2005
A candid memoir of being sent to Vietnam at age nineteen, witnessing the carnage of Hamburger Hill, and returning to…
an America in turmoil. Arthur Wiknik was a teenager from New England when he was drafted into the US Army in 1968, shipping out to Vietnam early the following year. Shortly after his arrival on the far side of the world, he was assigned to Camp Evans near the northern village of Phong Dien, only thirty miles from Laos and North Vietnam. On his first jungle patrol, his squad killed a female Viet Cong who turned out to have been the local prostitute. It was the first dead person he had ever seen. Wiknik's account of life and death in Vietnam includes everything from heavy combat to faking insanity to get some R & R. He was the first in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill, and between sporadic episodes of combat, he mingled with the locals; tricked unwitting US suppliers into providing his platoon with hard-to-get food; defied a superior and was punished with a dangerous mission; and struggled with himself and his fellow soldiers as the antiwar movement began to affect them. Written with honesty and sharp wit by a soldier who was featured on a recent History Channel documentary about Vietnam, Nam Sense spares nothing and no one in its attempt to convey what really transpired for the combat soldier during this unpopular war. It is not about glory, mental breakdowns, flashbacks, or self-pity. The GIs Wiknik lived and fought with during his yearlong tour were not drug addicts or war criminals or gung-ho killers. They were there to do their duty as they were trained, support their comrades—and get home alive. Recipient of an Honorable Mention from the Military Writers Society of America.Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthäus Hetzenauer (Greenhill Sniper Library)
By Roland Kaltenegger. 2017
Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War IIs most accomplished snipers.Mathus Hetzenauer,…
the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve Battalian 140 at the age of 18 but discharged five months later.He received a new draft notice in January 1943 for a post in the Styrian Truppenbungsplatz Seetal Alps where he met some of the best German snipers and learned his art.Hetzenauer went on to fight in Romania, Eastern Hungary and in Slovakia. As recognition for his more than 300 confirmed kills he was awarded on the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on April 17, 1945.After nearly five years of Soviet captivity Mathus Hetzenauer returned to Austria on January 10, 1950. He lived in the Tyrol's Brixen Valley until his death on 3 October of 2004.This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema’s engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours…
during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman’s confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Łoziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland’s aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.Witness to the Storm: A Jewish Journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920–1945
By Werner T. Angress. 2012
On June 6, 1944, Werner T. Angress parachuted down from a C-47 into German-occupied France with the 82nd Airborne Division.…
Nine days later, he was captured behind enemy lines and, concealing his identity as a German-born Jew, became a prisoner of war. Eventually, he was freed by US forces, rejoined the fight, crossed Europe as a battlefield interrogator, and participated in the liberation of a concentration camp. Although he was an American soldier, less than ten years before he had been an enthusiastically patriotic German-Jewish boy. Rejected and threatened by the Nazi regime, the Angress family fled to Amsterdam to escape persecution and death, and young Angress then found his way to the United States. In Witness to the Storm, Angress weaves the spellbinding story of his life, including his escape from Germany, his new life in the United States, and his experiences in World War II. A testament to the power of perseverance and forgiveness, Witness to the Storm is the compelling tale of one man's struggle to rescue the country that had betrayed him.Caesar's Conquest of Gaul: The Illustrated Edition (Military History from Primary Sources)
By Bob Carruthers. 2012
The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes.…
They lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul. The wars paved the way for Julius Caesar to become the sole ruler of the Roman Republic.Although Caesar portrayed this invasion as being a preemptive and defensive action, most historians agree that the wars were fought primarily to boost Caesar's political career and to pay off his massive debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military importance to the Romans, as these had been attacked several times by native tribes both indigenous to Gaul and further to the north. Conquering Gaul allowed Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine.The Gallic Wars are described by Julius Caesar as himself in this book, which was originally titled Commentarii de Bello Gallico, it is a pertinent and only slightly tendentious and altogether the most important historical source regarding the conflict. This updated edition contains the translated text and various illustrations depicting Roman warfare and key moments in Caesar's journey.Hitler (Routledge Historical Biographies)
By Michael Lynch. 2013
Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became…
a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination. Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a chronological approach to describe the main features of Hitler’s career. Set against the background of developments in Germany and Europe during his lifetime, the text tells the extraordinary story of how an Austrian layabout rose to become Führer of the Third Reich. The chapters incorporate into their narrative the major debates surrounding Hitler’s ideas, behaviour and historical significance. Particular attention is paid to his experience as a soldier in 1914 -18 and to the reasons why his original left-wing sympathies transmuted into Nazism. Arguments over the real character of Hitler’s dictatorship are analysed and a measured assessment is offered on the disputed issues of how far Hitler initiated the Third Reich’s domestic and foreign policies himself and to what extent he was controlled by events. His destructive leadership of wartime Germany is now a subject of close scrutiny among historians and the book’s final chapters deal with this theme and offer a set of reflections on Hitler’s relationship with the German people and his legacy to the German nation. Michael Lynch provides a balanced guide to this most difficult of figures that will be enlightening for students and general readers alikeInside the Mind of a Marine Drill Instructor: Real and Raw
By Kevin McDugle. 2014
Inside the Mind of a Marine Drill Instructor is a book that takes you inside the life of Marine Corps…
Drill Instructor Kevin McDugle. Many fiery moments in recruit training leave lasting impressions for years to come on both the Drill Instructor and the sloppy recruit. Kevin McDugle is just one of the many Drill Instructors who can tell stories of taking lackadaisical civilians and turning them into war-fighting Marines. Inside the Mind of a Marine Drill Instructor is a compilation of those intense and insightful stories by Kevin McDugle. Kevin McDugle served in the Marines from 1988 until 1996. Kevin served in security forces at Bangor, Washington, with 1st Battalion 8th Marines, 2nd ANGLICO and as a Drill Instructor at Paris Island, South Carolina. Kevin is an entrepreneur, inventor and family man. You can read more about Kevin McDugle by visiting kevinmcdugle.com.Los niños de la guerra
By Yury Winterberg, Sonya Winterberg. 2009
Los testimonios de la última generación de supervivientes de la Segunda Guerra mundial. Las vivencias traumáticas que no se superan…
se transmiten de padres a hijos. El sufrimiento provocado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial sigue removiendo antiguas heridas y el miedo experimentado se transfiere como una vivencia grabada a fuego en la memoria de todos aquellos implicados de algún modo en ella, generación tras generación. Los niños ven el mundo con distintos ojos que los adultos; también la guerra. No aciertan a entender la verdadera naturaleza de las desgracias que trae consigo un conflicto bélico, las interpretan a su manera y desde una perspectiva que responde solo a la verdad y que por eso resulta aterradora. En este libro no solo hablan los niños de la guerra alemanes, sino también los de Polonia, los de Francia, los de Inglaterra y los de la antigua Unión Soviética. La visión de cada uno de estos pequeños y la fuerza de sus testimonios construyen un nuevo escenario, una nueva perspectiva sobre el panorama europeo de aquellos años, sobre lo que significó ser niño en la guerra. Los padres de Yury y Sonia Winterberg conservan intactos sus recuerdos de infancia, la ignominia de algunas circunstancias, el desprecio de los nazis, el miedo... todavía hoy. En Los niños de la guerra recogen con un estilo periodístico lleno de claridad y franqueza 52 testimonios que describen el conflicto desde el principio hasta el final y gracias a la fuerza de las historias, de las cartas de los padres a los hijos momentos antes de ser fusilados, de las fotografías de los álbumes familiares y de los dibujos infantiles obtenemos el mapa emocional, la intrahistoria, del que sin duda ha sido uno de los acontecimientos bélicos de mayor impacto del siglo XX.Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)
By Edward B. Westermann. 2021
In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption…
and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims. Westermann argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination.Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.Eva Braun: Una vida con Hitler
By Heike B. Görtemaker. 2010
La biografía definitiva de la amante de Hitler que ofrece un retrato íntimo y paralelo de la vida del dictador…
nazi y del ascenso y caída del régimen que creó. Él era el Führer solitario, el hombre comprometido con una nación: Alemania. Así lo presentaba la propaganda nacionalsocialista, que no dejaba espacio posible para una relación sentimental en la vida de Hitler. Sin embargo, una mujer lo acompañó durante cerca de quince años, en las reuniones decisivas, en los peores momentos, en el Berlín asediado por los soviéticos, en la hora de su muerte. Adolf Hitler tenía una amante cuya existencia permaneció oculta hasta el final del Tercer Reich: Eva Braun. ¿Quién era la mujer con la que se casó Hitler poco antes de su caída? ¿Qué significó para ella vivir con uno de los mayores criminales de la historia? Heike B. Görtemaker ha buscado las respuestas y ha permitido a Eva Braun salir de las sombras para desvelar la intimidad de un dictador durante la época más catastrófica de la historia de Alemania. Reseñas:«Esta biografía de Frau Hitler, la más rigurosa y documentada, cambiará la idea de la rubia tonta impasible ante los asesinatos en masa.»Klaus Wiegrefe «No es posible estar más cerca de Eva Braun.»Die WeltIn Never Enough, Mike Hayes—former Commander of SEAL Team TWO—helps readers apply high-stakes lessons about excellence, agility, and meaning across…
their personal and professional lives.Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He’s jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate’s leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He’s written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they’d ever read. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.Over his many years of leadership, he has always strived to be better, to contribute more, and to put others first. That’s what makes him an effective leader, and it’s the quality that he’s identified in all of the great leaders he’s encountered. That continual striving to lift those around him has filled Mike’s life with meaning and purpose, has made him secure in the knowledge that he brings his best to everything he does, and has made him someone others can rely on.In Never Enough, Mike Hayes recounts dramatic stories and offers battle- and boardroom-tested advice that will motivate readers to do work of value, live lives of purpose, and stretch themselves to reach their highest potential.Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines
By James P. Duffy. 2021
General Douglas MacArthur's bloody campaign to defeat die-hard Japanese forces and liberate the Philippines &“I shall return,&” General Douglas MacArthur promised…
the Filipino people following the Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines in spring 1942. The people there believed MacArthur&’s vow—and even Americans were stirred by his dramatic pledge. Now, two and half years later, MacArthur was ready to fulfill his promise--the liberation of the Philippines was about to begin. It would not be an easy campaign. The more than 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago were the key to taking down the Japanese Empire—and the Imperial forces were prepared to sacrifice every man and every ship to prevent MacArthur from regaining control of them. Covering both the strategic and tactical aspects of the campaign through the participation of its soldiers, sailors, and airmen, as well as its commanders, James P. Duffy leads readers through a vivid account of the nearly year-long, bloody campaign to defeat over a quarter million die-hard Japanese defenders in the Pacific theater. Return to Victory is a wide-ranging, dramatic and stirring account of MacArthur&’s epic liberation of the Philippines.Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy
By Donald R. Burgett. 1967
p No other book on D-Day can approach i Currahee i Among all the accounts by…
officers and war correspondents it stands alone the only account of D-Day by a private soldier who lived through the fighting p Told simply but with total recall this is the combat narrative of a 19-year-old paratrooper who took part in the momentous invasion of Normandy as a PFC in the 506th Parachute Regiment and fought almost continuously for five days and nights in the battle to secure the beachhead p In i Currahee i Burgett tells of killing and heroism the confusion of war and the shock of death as he presents his stunning eyewitness account of D-Day--living through an experience he could never forget pOn the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
By Nadine Fresco. 2021
In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads and local collaborators murdered in…
three days more than 2,700 Jews, the majority of whom were women and children, most men having already been shot during the summer. The murderers took pictures of the December killings. These photographs are among the very rare pictures from the first period of the extermination, during which more than a million Jews from the Baltic to the Black Sea were shot to death. By showing the importance of photography in understanding persecution, Nadine Fresco offers a powerful meditation on the images while confronting the essential questions of testimony and guilt.