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"Das ist so'n zweischneidiges Schwert hier unser KZ ..." "Das ist so'n zweischneidiges Schwert hier unser KZ ..." Annette Leo Ausgezeichnet mit dem Annalise-Wagner-Preis 2008. Die Darstellung von Brüchen und Widersprüchen in Geschichte und Erinnerungsprozessen ist für die Jury Beispiel für einen neuen Ansatz des Gedenkens i… OL12827038W
Se questo è un uomo Se questo è un uomo Primo Levi This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was lib… OL16234842W
The accidental captives The accidental captives Carolyn Gossage In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. The passengers were pulled from the waters and transported to Nazi-o… OL16509164W
A Prisoner's Progress A Prisoner's Progress David James (1919 - 1986) This book, which was originally published by Blackwoods Magazine, in two parts, describes how the author became a war-time officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in charge of a Motor Gun Boat o… OL169313W
Tunnelling To Freedom Tunnelling To Freedom John Fancy xxii, 234 p. : 20 cm OL17393734W
Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboys Adventures With The French Resistance And Other Escapades In Occupi… Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboys Adventures With The French Resistance And Other Escapades In Occupi… Ted Fahrenwald A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, the author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the gro… OL17494942W
The Priest Barracks The Priest Barracks Guillaume Zeller At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics—… OL17762899W
El Holocausto de Los Republicanos Españoles El Holocausto de Los Republicanos Españoles Eduardo Pons Prades De los diez millones de seres humanos que fallecieron en las cámaras de gas y los hornos crematorios de los campos de concentración nazis, unos veinticinco mil eran españoles, de los que sobreviviría… OL17811424W
Boldness be my friend Boldness be my friend Richard Pape 'Boldness Be My Friend' is a gripping first-hand account of wartime bravey by Richard Pape, a Royal Air Force Warrant Officer Manager from Bomber Command. His memoirs here cover the three-year period… OL17883598W
Almost a great escape Almost a great escape Tyler Trafford Novelist Tyler Trafford reconstructs the story of his mother's life--from her youth as a Montreal debutante to her final days as a casualty of an unhappy marriage--as he uncovers the mystery of her r… OL17902807W
Sky Sky Hanneke Ippisch The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans. OL1929065W
Meine Erlebnisse in den KZ-Lagern Dachau und Buchenwald 1938-1945 Meine Erlebnisse in den KZ-Lagern Dachau und Buchenwald 1938-1945 P. Konrad Just Klappentext Wie außer Atem geschrieben mutet an, was P. Konrad Just unmittelbar nach seiner Befreiung aus 7jähriger KZ-Haft zu Papier brachte. Man spürt aus jeder Zeile die Nähe des Erlebten und E… OL19853030W
The prisoners of Breendonk The prisoners of Breendonk James M. Deem This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and sur… OL20007234W
We die alone We die alone David Howarth Jan Baalsrud's escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway is one of the most exciting escape narratives to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II chronicles . In March 1943, a team of e… OL20072093W
The interrogator The interrogator Raymond F. Toliver,Raymond T. Toliver,Hanns Joachim Scharff How a Luftwaffe interrogator achieved extraordinary success in extracting information from American Air Force pilot POWs. OL2037749W
Birds in a cage Birds in a cage Derek Niemann This is the inspiring story of how a passion for birds enabled four young men to escape the horror of internment in a German PoW camp - and brought about an extraordinary moment of cooperation and mu… OL20923606W
Derrière les lignes ennemies Derrière les lignes ennemies Carol Matas Sam Frederisksen, 18 ans, vient des Prairies. Il est mitrailleur à bord d'un bombardier pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Lorsque son avion est abattu par l'ennemi au-dessus de la France, il survi… OL21411411W
Came the day Came the day Grenville John Davies "Grenville J. Davies was taken Prisoner at the beginning of WWII. Held in Stalag XXA and XXB, POW Forced Labour Camps in Poland and Germany, he was able to keep a diary on scraps of paper obtained wh… OL24252816W
A foreign field A foreign field Ben Macintyre In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, w… OL2618444W
The simple sounds of freedom The simple sounds of freedom Taylor, Thomas "The Simple Sounds of Freedom, the true story of the first American paratrooper to land in Normandy and the only soldier to fight for both the United States and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.… OL2990580W
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