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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grade 9-12 & Adults

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
World War II
Date
1940s
Topic
Eichmann | Hitler | Holocaust | Jews or Jewish
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Nominee for Recognition of Excellence
Format
Book | Ebook

Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Author: Stangneth, Bettina

A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.”

Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself, from the defendant’s box in Jerusalem, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders—no more, he said, than “just a small cog in Adolf Hitler’s extermination machine.” How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding?

Bettina Stangneth, the first to comprehensively analyze more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann’s own recently discovered written notes— as well as seventy-three extensive audio reel recordings of a crowded Nazi salon held weekly during the 1950s in a popular district of Buenos Aires—draws a chilling portrait, not of a reclusive, taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled
social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes with whom to discuss past glories while vigorously planning future goals with other like-minded fugitives.

A work that continues to garner immense international attention and acclaim, Eichmann Before Jerusalem maps out the astonishing links between innumerable past Nazis—from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen—both in exile and in Germany, and reconstructs in detail the postwar life of one of the Holocaust’s principal organizers as no other book has done

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Lexile/Reading Level
950L

Genre/Category
Arts & Recreation | Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
World War II
Date
1940s
Topic
Family Relationships | Hitler | Music
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Family
Award-Winning Book
St. Francis de Sales Award
Format
Book | Ebook

Story of the Trapp Family Singers

Author: von Trapp, Maria Augusta

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold.

Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and their life in America.

Now with photographs from the original edition.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery

Historical Time Period
World War II
Date
1940s
Topic
Choices | Hitler | Murder | Mystery
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Black Orchestra (The Black Orchestra #1)

Author: Toner, J.J.Part of a Series: Black Orchestra

WW2 Germany. The German war machine has invaded Poland and is advancing west toward France. In Berlin Kurt Muller, an Abwehr signalman, discovers a colleague lying dead at his radio receiver. The criminal police dismiss the death as suicide, but Kurt is not convinced. Kurt follows a trail of mysteries, witnessing several atrocities that expose the Nazi regime for what it truly is. When the trail leads him to the German resistance, he faces the most difficult choices of his life. He must choose between his duty and his conscience, between his country and his family, between love and death.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War II
Date
1940s
Topic
Abduction | Hitler | Military and Wars | Spies
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Postcard from Hamburg (The Black Orchestra #3)

Author: Toner, J.J.Part of a Series: Black Orchestra

1943. WW2 is raging in Europe. Kurt Müller is living in London. While working for British Intelligence he discovers a photograph of his girlfriend, Gudrun, among the possessions of a German agent. Then he gets a postcard from Gudrun, posted in Germany, and he knows the Gestapo has taken her…

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Pre World War II | World War II
Date
1930s | 1940s
Topic
Germans | Hitler | Hitler Youth | Politics | War
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany | World Wide
Award-Winning Book
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Format
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Author: Shirer, William L.

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known. In The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer gave us the definitive book on Hitler’s German Empire. Based on his personal experiences as a war correspondent as well as the voluminous documents that came out of Germany after the war, this thrilling account of Hitler’s reign is widely acclaimed to be one of the greatest historical works of our time. Now available as an exclusive anniversary edition, this volume is as compelling as ever. Everything about the period is explained to the fullest, beginning with Hitler’s rise to power, the Nazification of Germany and the march to war. The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war-from Germany’s early successes to her eventual defeat-is must reading

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction | Religion

Historical Time Period
Modern | World War II
Date
1900s
Topic
Biography | Christian | Concentration Camps | Hitler | Holocaust
Geographic Region
Europe | Netherlands
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Corrie Ten Boom: The Watchmaker’s Daughter (Trailblazers)

Author: Watson, JeanPart of a Series: Trailblazers

The story of Corrie ten Boom has inspired millions of people all over the world. Jean Watson is a skilful author and presents Corrie’s stirring life and challenging hope-filled message for young readers.
The Watchmaker’s Daughter traces the life of this outstanding Christian woman from her childhood in Haarlem, through her suffering in Nazi concentration camps, to her world-wide ministry to the handicapped and underprivileged.
This exciting victorious book will allow you to meet this beloved woman and learn of God’s wonderful provision and blessing through adversity.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Religion

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1900s
Topic
Biography | Christian | Hitler | Martyr | Preacher | Resistance | Spies | Theology
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)

Author: Benge, JanetPart of a Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now

Written for readers age 10 and up — enjoyed by adults!

As Dietrich sang the German national anthem, he contemplated the devastation Hitler and the Nazis were perpetrating on Europe. Dietrich would do whatever he could to stop them, even if it meant pulling the trigger on the fuhrer himself. He had thought about it from every angle, and his conscience was clear.

Born into a loving family, Dietrich Bonhoeffer pursued a life as a pastor, teacher, theologian — and spy. He spoke out about the trouble in Germany when Adolph Hitler came to power, urging the Christian church to rescue disparaged people groups and resist Hitler’s evil empire.

Accused of being a troublemaker, Dietrich continued on fearlessly in the midst of wickedness. His work as a spy in the German resistance and participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler led to imprisonment and eventual execution. But the lesson of his life story remains: “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Preschool-1 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern | World War II
Date
1930s | 1940s
Topic
Christian | Hiding | Hitler | Jews or Jewish
Geographic Region
Europe | Netherlands
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book

Corrie Ten Boom: Are all of the watches safe? (Little Lights)

Author: MacKenzie, CatherinePart of a Series: Little Lights

Tells the true story of Corrie Ten Boom and little Dutch watch shop. While she mends watches she is constantly watching out for danger to ensure that her friends in the secret room are safe. Tells the story of God who is the only one who can keep us safe.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 5-9 Grade

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern | World War II
Date
1940s
Topic
Battle of the Bulge | Battles | Comics that teach | Graphic Novels | Hitler | Military and Wars
Geographic Region
World Wide
Format
Book

Battle of the Bulge: Turning Back Hitlers Final Push (Graphic Battles of World War Il)

Author: Cain, BillPart of a Series: Graphic Battles of World War II

The graphic novel by Bill Cain is about stopping the Nazi’s final push and stopping Hitler. It starts off giving background information about the war and the battles and different details about what was happening. Then it goes on to talk about Hitler’s plans, the American’s plans, and it has different stories about events during the war and people during the war.

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Lexile/Reading Level
820L

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern | World War II
Date
1930s | 1940s
Topic
Concentration Camps | Hitler | Holocaust | Survival | World History
Geographic Region
Europe | Poland
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction | Honor | Nominee | Other Awards | Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award | Sibert
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps

Author: Warren, Andrea

Award-winning author Andrea Warren presents a life-changing story of a young boy’s struggle for survival in a Nazi-run concentration camp. In this Robert F. Silbert Honor Book, narrated in the voice of Holocaust survivor Jack Mandelbaum, readers will glimpse the dark reality of life during the Holocaust, and how one boy made it out alive.

When twelve-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is separated from his family and shipped off to the Blechhammer concentration camp, his life becomes a never-ending nightmare. With minimal food to eat and harsh living conditions threatening his health, Jack manages to survive by thinking of his family.

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