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In this ten minute film, Julien Bryan, the last neutral reporter remaining in Poland on September 1, 1939, records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack on Poland. Through actual footage taken during the siege, Bryan poignantly describes the frightening chain of events that finally resulted in the capitulation of Warsaw and Poland. During the early stages of the blitzkrieg, civilians ...

Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944
 
 The Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU was established by the Germans as a company for the handling of Jewish businesses, in accordance with the law in the Netherlands; the NAGU was, in actual fact, a body that served as a middleman ...

Sounds of artillery and grainy pan of trees and German soldiers. The narrator says that the infantry is entering Kaluga [USSR]. In the town itself: dead horses in the street, destruction. German soldiers moving along a street. They do house-to-house-searches. Civilians on the street (brief close-ups) as a long column of German soldiers moves through, some pushing bicycles. More destruction caused by ...

Publisher description: Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, ...

"The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands was a complex, varied and bloody affair. Well- documented is the initial capture by the Gestapo of a secret Dutch Special Operations Executive radio-operator who thereafter lured several parachuted agents to their deaths, but, the actual scope and complexity of the occupation was much greater than this. Large-scale civil resistance against the occupation began ...

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss ...

This collection contains four pictures portraying members of the Kosterich family, including: Max Kosterich, Hedwig Goldschmidt, Walter Joseph Kosterich, Manfred Kosterich, Oskar Kosterich and Hans Kosterich.

Describes the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Soviet Zone of occupation and in the GDR, commenting that the number of actual war criminals was small in proportion to those suspected of opposing the communist regime. Soon the GDR declared that it had completed the purge of Nazis. In 1965, however, it was discovered that a country doctor, Horst Fischer, had been an assistant to Wirths, the head ...