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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Germans	Gordon Alexander Craig	They have given mankind unique triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are romantic and conservative, idealistic and practi…	OL1218665W
Candy Bomber	Michael O. Tunnell	"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but …	OL15468805W
German history in modern times	William W. Hagen	"This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, cultu…	OL15936681W
To Hope and Back - The Journey of the St. Louis	Kathy Kacer	The tragic true story of the ship St. Louis. It left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba, but was denied port in Cuba, the US and Canada before returning to Europe. w…	OL16794178W
Alexander Schmorell	Elena Perekrestov	At the height of World War II, a small band of students in Munich, Germany, formed a clandestine organization called the White Rose, which exposed the Nazi regime's murderous atrocities and called fo…	OL17636104W
The undivided sky	René Wolf	"This book is an examination of German media attempts to deal with the recent past at a time of heightened Cold War tensions, focusing on East and West German radio broadcasts around the time of the …	OL18604932W
Once upon a Dinkelsbühl	Patricia Lee Gauch	A retelling of the German legend in which the children of medieval Dinkelsbühl confront the leader of the Swedish soldiers plundering their town.	OL1894760W
Historians and archivists	George O. Kent	xix, 349 p. ; 24 cm	OL18956897W
To look a Nazi in the eye	Kathy Kacer	This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers tells the true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz's time in Germany, where she went to witness the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkee…	OL19724663W
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand	Robert M. Citino	"By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: what kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where so…	OL19752172W
Germany	Jean F. Blashfield	Examines the geography, history, and government of Germany, while highlighting its achievements in art, medicine and industry. This revised, second edition explores the history, economy, geography, …	OL19962551W
The astronomer & the witch	Ulinka Rublack	Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus's sun-centered universe, he famously discove…	OL20015705W
The British in Interwar Germany	David G. Williamson	xxi, 337 pages : 25 cm	OL20583500W
Germany	Sarah Tieck	Introduces Germany, describing its history, geography, cities, plants and animals, resources, and culture.	OL21186293W
Mobilizing Black Germany	Tiffany Florvil	In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and c…	OL21685861W
Die Rolle der DDR in Osteuropa	Gert Leptin	121 p. ; 24 cm	OL22504934W
Kunst und Kultur in ottonischer Zeit	Andreas Ranft,Wolfgang Schenkluhn	Aus disziplinübergreifender Perspektive liefert dieser Band neue Forschungen zur Kunst und Kultur des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts. Er ist erwachsen aus den seit 2008 erfolgreich laufenden Vortragsreihen…	OL23141603W
Discovery and distinction in the early Middle Ages	Cullen J. Chandler,Steven A. Stofferahn	xxii, 313 pages : 24 cm	OL23292646W
Only in Munich	Duncan J. D. Smith	"Based on personal experience walking through the capital of the Free State of Bavaria, the author and 'Urban Explorer' Duncan J.D. Smith opens new and unusual perspectives. He reveals the Munich of …	OL24289982W
The trail of the fox	David John Cawdell Irving	The biographical account of one of Hitler's favorite generals who committed suicide on the Fuhrer's orders.	OL2813511W