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This unique record of action in the Pacific is the personal journal of a young American soldier, Sy Kahn. Written under trying conditions and contrary to military regulations, the diary provided the writer both sanity and sanctuary - a foxhole of the mind - in an often violent, irrational world. A bookish nineteen-year-old who was the youngest soldier in his company, Kahn recorded in almost daily entries ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Copies at USHMM RG-54.001M and RG-54.004M

This book examines the extraordinary personality of Claus Count Stauffenberg, a key figure in the 1944 coup attempt against Hitler. Stauffenberg's personality is thrown into relief by a study of his two brothers and other family members and friends. The three Stauffenberg brothers, Berthold, Alexander, and Claus, were inseparable both emotionally and intellectually. Their view of human existence was ...

Discusses diverse versions of the "Madagascar plan", proposed by adherents of racial antisemitism, which developed in the second half of the 19th century. In 1885 the idea of settling all Jews on the island of Madagascar arose. This notion of a "territorial" final solution of the "Jewish question" was supported by antisemites in many European countries and propagated until the Nazi period. The plan ...

Historian Bernard Wasserstein offers the first serious, full-length history of a century of convulsive change. It is a history of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental blight, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression and of individual rebirth. Wasserstein provides both a narrative of the main contours of the political, diplomatic, and military ...