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Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust 48 reviews
Richard Rhodes
Vintage, 2003
Not An Easy Book to Read or Stomach
+ Puts the Holocaust in a broader perspective
+ Terrible but true
+ A hard slog.
+ A book that every history student or teacher should read.
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Things We Couldn't Say 20 reviews
Diet Eman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999
A Christian at War
+ Amazing!
+ An account of valour
+ Excellent
+ Harrowing experience
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The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and other Civilians in the East, 1939-1944 5 reviews
Hamburg Institute
New Press, 1999
A Shocking Portfolio of Evil Incarnate In the Wehrmacht!
+ Wehrmacht Complicity in Eastern Front Genocide & War Crimes
No one who views this book can any longer doubt the complicity and cooperation of the general German armed forces, or Wehrmacht, in the murderous acts of Germany's ignominious Third Reich. Literally hundreds of graphic and horrific photographs show average German soldiers shooting, hanging, ...
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Surrender on Demand3 reviews
Varian Fry
Johnson Books, 1997
Must Read!
+ Educational, Exciting, and worth recommending to friends
+ The way things were during Nazi-occupied France;
Varian Fry's Surrender on Demand Varian Fry closely takes you through his first hands experiences of often times (thought not all) resorting to not only illegal but ethically questionable methods in order to carry out the ethically correct end of saving a great number of lives not his own. There ...
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Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess 11 reviews
Constantine Fitzgibbon, Rudolf Hoess, ...
Phoenix Press, 2000
A Lone Wolf Writing His Diabolical Story in Prison
+ Fascinating & Disturbing
This is an eerie book. I suppose I expected to find a monster leering at me from page one, but the book has more layers to the story than that. It was creepy to start off by feeling drawn into the story of his childhood.
I had a sense that Hoess enjoyed the process of writing. After everything ...
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account49 reviews
Arcade Publishing, 1993
Gripping Horrific Account of Life in the Auschwitz Death Camp
+ Bone-chilling account of Aushwitz-Birkenau
+ Great description of events!!
Dr. Miklos Nyiszli has written (1960) a graphic, gruesome, first-hand account of his time working as a doctor in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Due to his previous medical training in medicine and pathology, Dr. Nyiszli was spared by the hideously inhuman Dr. Josef Mengele, to be the medical ...
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Playing for Time5 reviews
Fania Fenelon, Marcelle Routier
Syracuse University Press, 1997
Playing for Time
+ The madness of the camps and the masters spotlighted
+ The Perfect Book
+ this is a book about courage and the will to live.
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80629: A Mengele Experiment14 reviews
Gene Church
Route Sixty Six Publishing, Limited, 1995
Lest We Forget ! Read It....Please !
+ A Soul, Mind and Heart Experience...
+ Excellent read, well written!
+ Excellent Book!
+ A Mengele Experiment - Man's Inhumanity to Man Personified
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Escape from Sobibor15 reviews
Richard Rashke
University of Illinois Press, 1995
As gripping as any novel, but unfortunately it isnýt fiction
+ Lest we forget...
+ MUST READ ALONG WITH MOVIE
+ personal bond between the reader and human lives involved
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The Avengers: A Jewish War Story42 reviews
Rich Cohen
Knopf, 2000
Is it Resistance or Terrorism?
+ True Stories are Still the Most Riveting
+ Excellent book about courage and resistance
+ An Amazing Testimony of Courage
+ One of the most engaging and horrifying books I have read
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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders16 reviews
William S. Konecky Associates, 1996
Going along for the ride
+ A Difficult Read, But Necessary to Understand the Holocaust
+ Revealing
+ The vanilla ice cream was exceptional and the company very civilized. Oh, by the way... we also liquidated some 200 Jews...
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Alicia: My Story122 reviews
Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Bantam, 1988
An irrepressible spirit of survival
+ Thank you for sharing the tragic story of heroic struggle to live
+ Determined to survive and succeed...
+ Irrefutable Eye Witness to the Holocaust
+ Alicia
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945101 reviews
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Picador, 2000
Incredible story!
+ Incredible journey!
+ Survivor Literature
+ Gripping account, timeless
+ Uplifting!
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Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir, Second Edition12 reviews
David Faber, Anna Vaisman, ...
Faber Press, 2005
Amazing
+ A good book on the holocaust
+ A Great Book.
+ Amazingly written book.
+ Because of Romek
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On Burning Ground: A Son's Memoir 5 reviews
Michael Skakun
St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
Powerful, gripping, resourceful, amazing, yet true.
+ This Guy Has Guts!
+ A suspenseful narrative of survival by wits in the Holocaust
What can I add to the above? Not much. I rarely read Holocaust memoirs, but this one was amazing. Michael's father, Joseph, a Talmudic scholar with blue eyes and blond hair, who tried to save his mother in Navaredok/Novogrudek Poland, failed, and fled to the forests and to Vilna. As a ...
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Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter7 reviews
Kazik (Simha Rotem)
Yale University Press, 2002
Great First Person Account!
+ An account from one of the survivors
+ The young man that survived
Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter, written by one of the surviving members of the ZOB was a well-written account of not only life as a resistance fighter but also what life was like for the few that fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This is an easy read and I would recommend it to anyone who ...
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Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz37 reviews
Olga Lengyel
Academy Chicago Publishers, 1995
"Life" in Auschwitz; Nazi Genocidal Ambitions beyond Jews and Gypsies
+ Invaluable heartbreaking truth!
+ Like watching a car wreck when you know you shouldn't gawk
+ Everyone should read this
+ heartbreaking tale that needed to be told
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Schindler's List102 reviews
Thomas Keneally
Touchstone, 1993
Phenomenal!
+ Even More Compelling & Incredible Than The Movie
+ Vivid, detailed and important. One of my most favorite book... ever...
+ an amazing record
+ Who Would Dare to Do What He Did? [41]
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The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-19444 reviews
Radu Ioanid
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000
A Compelling New History Based on New Documentation
+ The Holocaust in Romania.
+ Thank goodness this is history, not current events!
+ An important contribution to Holocaust Studies.
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Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival4 reviews
Sam Kessel
Cooper Square Press, 2001
Hung before 25,000 witnesses. A gripping story of survival.
+ An Unbelievable Truth
+ "Hanged" Is A Triumph
+ Remarkable Man, Remarkable Story
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