Recommended Reading

Trunk examines the role of the Judenrat, or Jewish Councils, in the ghettos. While Jews were forced to live in ghettos during the Holocaust, Nazis appointed Jews living in these ghettos to carry out Nazi directives against other Jews, to supply forced labor, and eventually to cooperate in the Final Solution.

A chillingly thorough study of how the Nazi extermination of Jews was foretold in Ukrainian pogroms 20 years earlier.

Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp, less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism.

A meditation on Austria’s capitulation to the Nazis. The book won the 2017 Prix Goncourt.

An in-depth study of Adolf Hitler's unit during World War I, the List Regiment. Through the stories of Hitler's fellow soldiers, Weber argues that the story of Hitler's experience during the war was a myth propagated by Hitler himself. In doing so, Weber challenges the belief that the First World War led naturally to Nazism.

In this book Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives. These discoveries clarify the relations between National Socialism and the Vatican. This book illuminates the thinking of the popes, cardinals, and bishops who saw themselves in a historic struggle against evil.