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Published June 2024 Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published August 2024
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Lerg, C. A. (ed.)
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
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Published December 2023
Do Not Forget Me
Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
Saltiel, L. (ed)
Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published December 2022
Voices on War and Genocide
Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town
Bartov, O. (ed)
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published May 2023
On the Edges of Whiteness
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Lingelbach, J.
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors.
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies Colonial History
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Published September 2019
Nearly the New World
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Newman, J.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2023
Testimonies of Resistance
Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)
As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—both by themselves and by others—during and since the Holocaust.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published September 2021
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht
Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military
Sait, B.
Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2022
Views of Violence
Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
Echternkamp, J. & Jaeger, S. (eds)
The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published October 2017
The Participants
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Jasch, H.-C., & Kreutzmüller, C. (eds)
Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published November 2018
Microhistories of the Holocaust
Zalc, C. & Bruttmann, T. (eds)
Increasingly, recent historical scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood or family. This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published June 2019
Occupation in the East
The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944
Lehnstaedt, S.
Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. This study provides a nuanced portrait of their lives, as they acclimated to the daily routines of life in the East while helping to lay the groundwork for systematic mass murder.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published August 2017
The Anatomy of Murder
Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
Hildebrandt, S.
Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian and physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression; in some cases, the traditional model of working with deceased bodies gave way to experimentation with the “future dead.”
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published November 2016
Matters of Testimony
Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Chare, N. & Williams, D.
In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando—“special squads” of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published January 2018
The Enemy on Display
The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Bogumił, Z., Wawrzyniak, J., Buchen, T., Ganzer, C. & Senina, M.
Eastern European museums represent the traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the bombardment of Dresden, in ways that cast the enemy in a specific light. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence over the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can play an important role in this process.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published February 2020
To the Bomb and Back
Finnish War Children Tell Their World War II Stories
Saffle, S. (ed)
Between 1939 and 1945 some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation’s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This is the first English-language account of Finland’s war children and their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words.
Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published June 2017
The Greater German Reich and the Jews
Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945
Gruner, W. & Osterloh, J. (eds)
Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published November 2016
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust
Grodin, M. A. (ed)
Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published July 2017
Vanished History
The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
Sniegon, T.
“This book opens up important issues not dealt with extensively in the historiography so far. Unlike with some other post-Communist countries, and Poland in particular, there hasn't been that much interest in the topic of commemoration and historicisation of the Holocaust in post-Communist Czechoslovakia…The author should be praised for the critical distance with which he approaches the historical cultures in both parts of former Czechoslovakia and its actors.” · Michal Frankl, Jewish Museum in Prague
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published June 2016
A Fatal Balancing Act
The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Meyer, B.
“Beate Meyer has chosen to research a serious subject that is by any standard difficult and painful to confront in an honest way… The book is a careful, detailed study of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany.” · Canadian Journal of History
“[The author] keeps the focus on the individual without ever losing sight of the overall crime. This book…can be considered as an essential contribution to the history of the extermination of the German Jews.” · Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt
“Beate Meyer succeeds in producing a nearly complete picture of procedures and decisions within the organization. In addition she describes openly but not without empathy the diverse, often narrow perspectives and possibilities of responsible individuals in their respective situation.” · Sehepunkte
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published May 2015
The Nazi Genocide of the Roma
Reassessment and Commemoration
Weiss-Wendt, A. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published May 2015
The Law in Nazi Germany
Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice
Steinweis, A. E. & Rachlin, R. D. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2015
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War
Goals, Expectations, Practices
Cattaruzza, M., Dyroff, S. & Langewiesche, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2014
Hitler's Plans for Global Domination
Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims
Thies, J.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published November 2014
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Stone, D. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published July 2014
Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography
Priemel, K. C. & Stiller, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published December 2013
Nazi Labour Camps in Paris
Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944
Dreyfus, J.-M. & Gensburger, S.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published December 2013
The Legacies of Two World Wars
European Societies in the Twentieth Century
Kettenacker, L. & Riotte, T. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II
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Published January 2021
The Devil's Captain
Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published September 2013
The Kings and the Pawns
Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II
Rein, L.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published April 2013
Experience and Memory
The Second World War in Europe
Echternkamp, J. & Martens, S. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published August 2012
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Dilemmas and Responses
Nicosia, F. & Scrase, D. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published July 2014
Terror From the Sky
The Bombing of German Cities in World War II
Primoratz, I. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2014
'For Their Own Good'
Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Torrie, J. S.
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II
Subject: History: World War II
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Published February 2014
Refugees From Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States
Caestecker, F. & Moore, B. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2012
The 'Final Solution' in Riga
Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
Angrick, A., Klein, P. & Brandon R.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published October 2010
The Train Journey
Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust
Gigliotti, S.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Memory Studies Transport Studies
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Published December 2008
Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945. (3rd Edition)
A Critical Assessment
Müller, R.-D. & Ueberschär, G.R.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published May 2010
Nazi Paris
The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944
Mitchell, A.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published March 2020
Escape From Hell
The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol
Wetzler, A.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published September 2007
The Arts in Nazi Germany
Continuity, Conformity, Change
Huener, J. & Nicosia, F. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2011
Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder
Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
Kay, A.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published April 2007
France in the Era of Fascism
Essays on the French Authoritarian Right
Jenkins, B. (ed)
Subject: History: World War II
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Published July 2007
Rock of Contention
Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945
Munholland, K.
Subjects: History: World War II Colonial History
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Published January 2006
Networks of Nazi Persecution
Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust
Feldman, G. & Seibel, W. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published November 2004
Sexuality and German Fascism
Herzog, D. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2005
Flight of Fantasy
New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945
Donahue N.H. & Kirchner D. (eds)
Subjects: Literary Studies History: World War II
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Published February 2004
Hitler's Dancers
German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Karina, L & Kant, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2004
Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany
Origins, Practices, Legacies
Nicosia, F.R. & Huener, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published January 2002
'Aryanisation' in Hamburg
The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany
Bajohr, F.
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published October 2001
Theatre and War 1933-1945
Performance in Extremis
Balfour, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published August 2001
Europe in Exile
European Exile Communities in Britain 1940-45
Conway, M. & Gotovitch, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2002
France At War in the Twentieth Century
Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor
Holman, V. & Kelly, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II Media Studies
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Published November 2004
War of Extermination
The German Military in World War II
Heer, H. & Naumann. K. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published January 2000
National Socialist Extermination Policies
Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies
Herbert, U. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published March 2006
European Memories of the Second World War
Peitsch, H., Burdett, C. & Gorrara, C. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published January 2001
The French Defeat of 1940
Reassessments
Blatt, J. (ed)
Subject: History: World War II
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Published July 1996
Forging the Collective Memory
Government and International Historians through Two World Wars
Wilson, K. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published May 1996
Fascism and Theatre
Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Berghaus, G. (ed)
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published August 1997
The Triumph of Propaganda
Film and National Socialism 1933-1945
Hoffmann, H.
Subjects: History: World War II Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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