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When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he feels the old man is haunted by a secret from his past. Sure enough when Josef gives him his teenage diary to read, Daniel discovers a shocking story of rebellion and struggle. The diary tells how Josef left the Hitler Youth for a gang called The Edelweiss Pirates. Their uniform: long hair and cool clothes. Their motto: freedom! At first the Pirates are only interested in hanging out and having...

Staying behind in territory occupied by the Allies, the Werewolf guerrilla movement's mission was to carry out acts of sabotage, arson and assassination, both of enemy troops and of 'defeatist' Germans. The author has researched the movement exhaustively and details their operations. The USSR remained conscious of them well up into the 1950s.

Publisher's description: Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries in that citizens have the power to say virtually anything without legal repercussions. But, in the case of white supremacy, does the First Amendment demand that we defend Nazis? In Must We Defend...

Traces the history of the Holocaust from the order given by Adolf Hitler to the man, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, who devised the plans for the destruction of the European Jews.

Two swing-music loving friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.

Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomas Masaryk. Across the border, the Third Reich is menacing—and plotting to invade. In the Czechoslovak heartlands, vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestigious sporting contest: the Grand Pardubice steeplechase. Notoriously dangerous, the race is considered the ultimate...

Discusses how several of Hitler's minions during World War II were never brought to trial for their crimes and presents the idea that they tried to carry on a postwar ideological campaign against Jews.

Biographical account of Adolf Eichmann, known as the engineer of death for his involvement with Hitler's regime during World War II. Also documents his escape, capture and punishment.

In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in the English seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea to learn the language and be ambassadors heralding the rise of National Socialism. Posing as a teacher, undercover British secret service agent Thomas Miller ... sees the threat of what is to come and attempts to raise the alarm... but the authorities believe he is the problem.