Ohrdruf. Buchenwald. Dachau.
Category: Nazi Germany
Review: Why? Explaining The Holocaust – Peter Hayes
Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of why such carnage erupted still eludes people
Review: Auschwitz A History – Sybille Steinbacher
They knew
Review: Eichmann In My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler’s Chief Executioner – Peter Z. Malkin
Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands “remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity” (New York Newsday).
Review: Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi – Neal Bascomb
The first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of Adolf Eichmann, based on groundbreaking new information and interviews and featuring rare, never published Mossad surveillance photographs
Review: The Nazi Hunters – Andrew Nagorski
It wasn't all just Simon Wiesenthal
Review: Stalingrad – Antony Beevor
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
Review: The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting. Wannsee and The Final Solution – Mark Roseman
On 20 January 1942 the most murderous meeting in history took place
Review: Masters of Death. The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust – Richard Rhodes
These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.
Review: Out of Auschwitz. The Untold Story – Stanley Goleniewski
With respect to those who died and warning to those still alive
