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Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Lily Ren�ee Wilheim, the Jewish girl who escaped from the Nazis through the Kindertransport operation, leaving her parents behind and traveling alone to England, later becoming a comic book artist in New York.
2982) The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan: a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for my parents and for my people." Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult relying on the hypnotic personality of Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This peculiar leadership dynamic resulted in millions of deaths and some of the worst excesses of World War II." "The Devil's Disciples is the first major book for a general readership to examine those...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The bumbling Germans give Hogan and his crew plenty of opportunities to continue their war resistance movements right from their POW war cells. The prisons colonel, Klink, is more concerned with having everything run smoothly and avoiding any trouble with his superiors (especially anything that might result in his being reassigned and sent to the Eastern front) than with being tough on Hogan and his fellow prisoners. Hogan and his men cause as much...
2990) Rapunzel
Author
Publisher
Brighter Child
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents a retelling of a fairy tale about a beautiful girl with long golden hair who is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
Author
Publisher
Gloucester Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Attempts to foresee what might be the political and economic significance of a reunited Germany. Reviews Germany's dark past in two world wars, its division into two hostile states, and the fears of Europeans and others of renewed German independence.
2997) Rapunzel =: Rapunzel
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put a name to it. But when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes on tour through Germany, Bill temporarily hires a new sharpshooter to be part of his "World Wide Congress of Rough Riders." As they travel and perform, Annie must use her newfound knowledge and rare skill to combat creatures of the night scattered across the countryside, who threaten...
