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German Railroads, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution
By Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, Raul Hilberg†. 2019
Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in…
Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the “machinery of destruction” but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German Railroads, Jewish Souls centers around Hilberg’s seminal essay of the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage of an Allied Convoy That Defied the Nazis
By William Geroux. 2019
An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the…
Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel-the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance, even as they avoided joining the fight in Europe while the Eastern Front raged. The high-level politics that put Convoy PQ-17 in the path of the Nazis were far from the minds of the diverse crews aboard their ships. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was to be a first taste of war; aboard the SS Ironclad, Ensign William Carter of the U.S. Navy Reserve had passed up a chance at Harvard Business School to join the Navy Armed Guard; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. All the while, The Ghost Ships of Archangel turns its focus on Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, playing diplomatic games that put their ships in peril. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave no respite from bombers, and the Germans wielded the terrifying battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed The Big Bad Wolf. Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis. As a newly forged alliance was close to dissolving and the remnants of Convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic in one piece, the fate of the world hung in the balance.No Surrender: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier's Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Evil
By Douglas Century, Christopher Edmonds. 2019
Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds,…
a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives-then and now.Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was the highest-ranking American soldier at Stalag IXA, a prisoner of war camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Roddie was a simple, soft-spoken man of deep inner strength and unwavering Christian faith. Though he was driven to the limits of endurance, Roddie refused to succumb to Nazi brutality toward the Jewish-American GIs with whom he was serving. Through his inspiring leadership and bravery Roddie saved the lives of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen in those perilous final days of the Second World War. His fearless actions continue to reverberate today. Growing up, Pastor Chris Edmonds knew little of his father's actions in the war. To learn the truth, he followed a trail of clues, a journey that spanned seven decades and linked a sprawling cast of heroes, both known and unknown, from every corner of the country. In No Surrender, Pastor Chris, joined by New York Times bestselling co-author Douglas Century, chronicles his odyssey to tell the unforgettable story of his father and his remarkable valor. He also provides startling details (and vantage points) of some of the major events of World War II and United States Army initiatives that helped the Allies win the war, including the Battle of the Bulge, the massacre at Malmedy, and the now-little-known Army Specialized Training Program which prepared brilliant young "soldier-scholars"-or "Quiz Kids"-from across the nation to battle the Nazis. As compelling as the number-one New York Times bestsellers Unbroken, Boys on the Boat, Band of Brothers, and Schindler's List, illustrated with photographs and historical documents throughout, No Surrender is an epic story of bravery, compassion, and faith, and an inspiring testament to man's goodness. It is also a clarion call for our narcissistic age-a shining example of the transformative and redemptive power of moral courage.The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (G - Reference, Information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
By Samuel Totten, Henry C. Theriault. 2019
It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United…
Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG). This brief but cogent book provides an introduction to the unique wording, legal terminology, and key components of the convention, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Providing clarity on the distinctions between genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, this book is designed to be an entry into further study of genocide in its legal, historical, political, and philosophical dimensions. Key terms, such as intent and motive, are explained, case studies are included, and a detailed bibliography at the conclusion of the book offers suggested avenues for more advanced study of the UNCG.Hitler’s French Literary Afterlives, 1945-2017
By Manuel Bragança. 2019
This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017. It discusses why, unlike…
what has been observed in the US and in the UK, it has proven problematic for French novelists to write about Hitler in their numerous fictional explorations of the Second World War. It examines the literary and ethical challenges of including historical characters such as Hitler in fiction, and demonstrates how these challenges evolved over time as memories of the Second World War also evolved in France.British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War
By Dennis Deletant. 2016
British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War is the first monograph to examine the activity throughout the…
entire war of SOE and MI6. It was generally believed in Britain's War Office, after Hitler's occupation of Austria in March 1938, that Germany would seek to impose its will on South-East Europe before turning its attention towards Western Europe. Given Romania's geographical position, there was little Britain could offer her. The brutal fact of British-Romanian relations was that Germany was inconveniently in the way: opportunity, proximity of manufacture and the logistics of supply all told in favour of the Third Reich. This held, of course, for military as well as economic matters. In these circumstances the British concluded that their only weapon against German ambitions in countries which fell into Hitler's orbit were military subversive operations and a concomitant attempt to draw Romania out of her alliance with Germany.The Witness as Object: Video Testimony in Memorial Museums (Museums and Collections #10)
By Steffi De Jong. 2018
In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering…
events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components in narrative and exhibition design strategies. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the "musealization" of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays across Disciplines
By Norman J. W. Goda. 2017
Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice…
in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such varied subjects as literary analysis of Hannah Arendt’s work, the restitution case for Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, and the ritualistic aspects of criminal trials.Y tú no regresaste
By Marceline Loridan-Ivens. 2015
Un libro breve y conmovedor. Una carta abrierta al padre que no sobrevivió a la deportación a Auschwitz-Birkenau. El dolor…
de la pérdida y en el terrible sentimiento de culpa que acompaña siempre a quienes consiguen salir con vida del infierno, pero dejan atrás a los que aman. Hay libros imprescindibles que dejan una marca indeleble, que aun después de haberlos terminado permanecen vívidos en nuestro recuerdo. Este libro breve e intenso es uno de ellos. Marceline Loridan-Ivens, que ha tenido una larga y reconocida carrera como realizadora cinematográfica, fue deportada a Auschwitz-Birkenau en el mismo convoy que su padre el 13 de abril de 1943, cuando contaba apenas quince años. «Tú podrás regresar, porque eres joven, pero yo ya no volveré», le dijo su padre a la joven Marceline cuando fueron deportados. Y ella nunca olvidó esas palabras. Después del horror, de vuelta en París, atenazada por la ausencia de aquel padre benevolente y protector, se quedó sin palabras para explicar lo que había vivido. Con el paso del tiempo, logró adaptarse y se labró una carrera fecunda como documentalista y realizadora cinematográfica junto con su marido, Joris Ivens. Ahora, a los ochenta y seis años de edad, ha plasmado su evocación del dolor en un documento impresionante, escrito a cuatro manos con Judith Perrignon, que ha cautivado a los lectores y a la opinión pública, y que demuestra que hay historias que no pueden dejar de ser contadas y que los libros como éste, lejos de haber perdido vigencia, han adquirido en el presente una gran relevancia. Y tú no regresaste se publicó en Francia a principios de 2015 y obtuvo de inmediato el interés de la crítica y del público lector, que reconocieron en este libro breve y conmovedor un coraje, una lucidez y una coherencia ejemplares, con lo que entró de forma fulgurante en la lista de los más vendidos. Reseñas:«Un libro de rara intensidad.»Mohammed Aïssaoui, Le Figaro «Un testimonio que sin duda golpea con más dureza que otros. Difícil de olvidar.»Nicolas Ungemuth, Le Figaro Magazine «Breve, densa, punzante y conmovedora.»Pierre Vavasseur, Le Parisien «Una fuerza excepcional.»Patrice Trapier, Le JDD «Un libro escrito con el coraje de quien, tanto tiempo después, ni tiene miedo ni se hace ilusiones.»Cordélia Bonal, Libération «Un valiosísimo relato. Un testimonio que, más que nunca, merece ser leído y comprendido.»Elisabeth Philippe, Les Inrockuptibles «Los libros importantes, los que nunca olvidaremos, no necesitan ser voluminosos. He aquí otra prueba.»Maurice SazafranThe War Chronicles of Jerzy Dobiecki
By Ian Hientze. 2019
This tribute to the life of Jerzy Dobiecki, a Polish cavalry captain with the 18-ty Pułk Ułanów Pomorskich – the…
18th Polish Pomeranian Lancers, is a story based on previously archived material, originally written by the Captain in Polish, that has been translated for the first time into English. The Captain’s chronicles bring to life eye-witness accounts of his regiment’s deployments during the Russo-Polish War between 1919 and 1921, one of several little-publicized wars in English and fought between Poland and her neighbors immediately following the 1914-1918 Great War. Eighteen years later, as Poland was invaded by Germany in September 1939, from his position on attachment to the Polish Ministry of Military Affairs in Warsaw, Captain Dobiecki kept a diary of battles as they developed across Poland during the first weeks of the Second World War. The diary records events as he, and what remained of the Polish military High Command, were evacuated to neighboring Romania when Poland was additionally overrun by Soviet forces from the east. His journal sheds light on his subsequent escape from internment across Europe to France and later on to Britain, where he served as a staff officer with the command of the Polish 1st Corps, formed in exile in Scotland. Following the end of hostilities in Europe in 1945 and upon return to Britain after the fighting on the continent, like thousands of other Poles commissioned under the auspices of the Polish Resettlement Corps, Jerzy had to decide whether to return to his native Poland or whether he should try to somehow rescue and bring to England what was left of his family – now trapped behind the iron curtain in eastern Poland, facing an uncertain future and severity under a Stalinist regime.Mussolini's Camps: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943) (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy)
By Carlo Spartaco Capogreco. 2020
This book—which is based on vast archival research and on a variety of primary sources—has filled a gap in Italy’s…
historiography on Fascism, and in European and world history about concentration camps in our contemporary world. It provides, for the first time, a survey of the different types of internment practiced by Fascist Italy during the war and a historical map of its concentration camps. Published in Italian (I campi del duce, Turin: Einaudi, 2004), in Croatian (Mussolinijevi Logori, Zagreb: Golden Marketing – Tehnička knjiga, 2007), in Slovenian (Fašistična taborišča, Ljublana: Publicistično društvo ZAK, 2011), and now in English, Mussolini’s Camps is both an excellent product of academic research and a narrative easily accessible to readers who are not professional historians. It undermines the myth that concentration camps were established in Italy only after the creation of the Republic of Salò and the Nazi occupation of Italy’s northern regions in 1943, and questions the persistent and traditional image of Italians as brava gente (good people), showing how Fascism made extensive use of the camps (even in the occupied territories) as an instrument of coercion and political control.El niño de Schindler
By Leon Leyson. 1972
La conmovedora historia de Leon Leyson, el más joven de los mil judíos que Oskar Schindler salvó del Holocausto Leon…
solo tenía diez años cuando el ejército nazi invadió Polonia y su familia fue trasladada primero al gueto y, más tarde, al campo de concentración. Sobrevivió gracias a su valentía y determinación, pero solo un acto de bondad desinteresada pudo salvarlo: la lista de personas que creó Oskar Schindler, el empresario alemán cuya gesta se llevó a la gran pantalla en La lista de Schindler. Estas memorias, el único testimonio que tenemos de esta historia real, retratan a la perfección la inocencia de un niño que sufrió lo inimaginable y, aun así, supo conservar la dignidad, la esperanza y la fe en la humanidad.El presente libro describe la experiencia del gran contingente español confinado en uno de los más terribles campos de concentración…
nazis, el complejo de Mauthausen. Entre los cientos de miles de prisioneros enviados a este campo, los siete mil españoles que llegaron allí eran republicanos refugiados en Francia que habían luchado en la Guerra Civil y que, tras la invasión nazi, fueron arrestados por las tropas alemanas. Su historia sirve en parte para presentarnos un microcosmos de la experiencia colectiva, pero es al mismo tiempo una experiencia única. Esta cuarta edición ha sido revisada por el autor y ampliada con dos anexos: una lista de los españoles de Mauthausen fallecidos por causas no naturales y una extensa coda que incorpora sus avances en la investigación durante los últimos diez años. Opinión:«Con este solo libro se aprende más que comprendiendo la mayoría de los libros que hay en el mercado.»Gabriel JacksonThe Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
By Neal Bascomb. 2016
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about…
the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. 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 have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth? Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb--and alter the course of the war.“Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature…
of World War II.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of FranceFrom the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forcesAs far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the top-secret espionage operation to "set Europe ablaze." The agents infiltrated Nazi-occupied territory, parachuting behind enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but forcefully recruiting, training, and arming local French résistants to attack the German war machine. SOE would not only change the course of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Of the many brave men and women conscripted, two Anglo-American recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and saboteurs they led.While both brothers were sent across the channel to organize against the Germans, their fates in war could hardly have been more different. Captain George Starr commanded networks of résistants in southwest France, cutting German communications, destroying weapons factories, and delaying the arrival of Nazi troops to Normandy by seventeen days after D-Day. Younger brother Lieutenant John Starr laid groundwork for resistance in the Burgundy countryside until he was betrayed, captured, tortured, and imprisoned by the Nazis in France and sent to a series of concentration camps in Germany and Austria. Feats of boldness and bravado were many, but appalling scandals, including George's supposed torture and execution of Nazis prisoners, and John's alleged collaboration with his German captors, overshadowed them all. At the war's end, Britain, France, and the United States awarded both brothers medals for heroism, and George would become one of only three among thousands of SOE operatives to achieve the rank of colonel. Yet, their battle honors did little to allay postwar allegations against them, and when they returned to England, their government accused both brothers of heinous war crimes.Here, for the first time, is the story of one of the great clandestine organizations of World War II, and of two heroic brothers whose ordeals during and after the war challenged the accepted myths of Britain's wartime resistance in occupied France. Written with complete and unrivaled access to only recently declassified documents from Britain's SOE files, French archives, family letters, diaries, and court records, along with interviews from surviving wartime Resistance fighters, They Fought Alone is a real-life thriller. Renowned journalist and war correspondent Charles Glass exposes a dramatic tale of spies, sabotage, and the daring men and women who risked everything to change the course of World War II.This is not just another book about Pearl Harbor. It is the story of Joseph Grew, America&’s ambassador to Japan, and…
his frantic effort in the months before the Pearl Harbor attack to orchestrate an agreement between Japan and the United States to avoid the war he saw coming. It is a story filled with hope and heartache, with complex and fascinating characters, and with a drama befitting the momentous decisions at stake. And more than that, it is a story that has never been told. In those months before the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan and the United States were locked in a battle of wills. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic sanctions were crippling Japan. America's noose was tightening around Japan's neck — but the country's leaders refused to yield to American demands. In this cauldron of boiling tensions, Joseph Grew offered many recommendations to break the deadlock. Having resided and worked in Tokyo for almost ten years, Grew understood what Roosevelt and his administration back home did not: that the Japanese would rather face annihilation than endure the humiliation of surrendering to American pressure. The President and his administration saw little need to accept their ambassador&’s recommendations. The administration&’s policies, they believed, were sure to succeed. And so, with increasing urgency, Grew tried to explain to the President and his administration that Japan&’s mindset could not be gauged by Western standards of logic and that the administration&’s policies could lead Japan to embark on a suicidal war with the United States &“with dangerous and dramatic suddenness.&” Relying on Grew&’s diaries, letters and memos, interviews with members of the families of Grew and his staff, and an abundance of other primary source materials, Lew Paper presents the gripping story of Grew&’s effort to halt the downward spiral of Japan&’s relations with the United States. Grew had to wrestle with an American government that would not listen to him – and simultaneously confront an increasingly hostile environment in Japan, where pervasive surveillance, arbitrary arrest, and even unspeakable torture by Japan's secret police were constant threats. In the Cauldron reads like a novel, but it is based on fact. And it is sure to raise questions whether the Pearl Harbor attack could have been avoided.The Anatomy of the Holocaust: Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship (Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust #8)
By Raul Hilberg, Walter H. Pehle, René Schlott. 2020
Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the historian Raul…
Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from Hilberg’s longtime German editor and his biographer, it not only offers a multifaceted look at the man and the scholar, but also traces the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a diverse and vital intellectual project.Alicia: My Story
By Alicia Appleman. 1988
After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of…
thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality.Priests de la Résistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century
By The Revd Butler-Gallie. 2019
Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild hadn&’t met Father Kir – parish priest and French resistance…
hero, immortalised by the Kir Royale. And they probably weren&’t thinking of Archbishop Damaskinos who, when threatened with the firing squad by the Nazis, replied, &‘Please respect our traditions – in Greece we hang our Archbishops.&’ Wherever fascism has taken root, it has met with resistance. From taking a bullet for a frightened schoolgirl in Alabama to riding on the bonnet of a tank during the liberation of France, each of the hard-drinking, chain-smoking clerics featured in Priests de la Résistance were willing to give their lives for a world they believed in – even as their superiors beckoned them to safety. In this spellbinding new collection, the Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie, bestselling author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, presents fifteen men and women who dared to stand up to fascism, proving that some hearts will never be conquered.Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
By David King. 2011
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own…
reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. The main suspect was Dr. Marcel Petiot, a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma. He was the "People's Doctor," known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free medical care for the poor. Petiot, however, would soon be charged with twenty-seven murders, though authorities suspected the total was considerably higher, perhaps even as many as 150.Who was being slaughtered, and why? Was Petiot a sexual sadist, as the press suggested, killing for thrills? Was he allied with the Gestapo, or, on the contrary, the French Resistance? Or did he work for no one other than himself? Trying to solve the many mysteries of the case, Massu would unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness. When Petiot was finally arrested, the French police hoped for answers. But the trial soon became a circus. Attempting to try all twenty-seven cases at once, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, enjoying the spotlight, responded with astonishing ease. His attorney, René Floriot, a rising star in the world of criminal defense, also effectively, if aggressively, countered the charges. Soon, despite a team of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one ton of evidence, Petiot's brilliance and wit threatened to win the day.Drawing extensively on many new sources, including the massive, classified French police file on Dr. Petiot, Death in the City of Light is a brilliant evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.From the Hardcover edition.