Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood
In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world’s largest Christian center. […]
Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946
This book documents the experiences of the Jews of Greece who returned home after having been in hiding, combatants, deportees and refugees during World War II. These are stories that […]
Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution
Through unparalleled historical detective work, noted scholars Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman reveal the inspiring tale of Eduard Schulte, the Breslau…
Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia
The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global conflict. The Third Reich’s attack, mounted without consulting its Italian…
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution
Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy,…
Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village
Stark Decency is a window into the events of two vastly different worlds: German combat veterans captured in North Africa and Normandy, and the small New Hampshire logging town which […]
The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War
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French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914–1918 / 1940–1944
An engaging synthesis of recent research as well as highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France—a unique chronicle of the…
World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II
The purpose of Weinberg’s text is to suggest a way in which the dramatic events of World War II may be seen. Weinberg argues that the war must be seen…
