Recommended Reading

This is the shocking account of how a unit of average, middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

A revisionist history of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April - May 1943.

Bukey examines popular opinion in Hitler's native country after the Anschluss (annexation) of 1938. He uses evidence gathered in Europe and the United States to dissect the reactions, views, and conduct of disparate political and social groups.

Over three days in November 1941, in Sosenki Forest outside the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads supported by local collaborationists murdered some 23,500 Jewish men, women, and children. Often remembered as "the second Babi Yar," the massacre was one of nearly a hundred similar German-sponsored, large-scale, anti-Jewish killing operations perpetrated in Soviet zones during the early months of World War II on the Eastern Front.

At a time of deep distress over the stability of democracy in America and elsewhere, Benjamin Carter Hett’s chronicle of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler could not be more timely. “The Death of Democracy” makes for chilling reading precisely because it deals with Hitler’s early years, when he was a fringe politician exploiting disaffection with German democracy to gain an institutional foothold and then leveraging the bitter divisions among the established political parties.

Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view. She focuses on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the camps, and considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.