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When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the treasure ...

Consists of one memoir, 150 pages, entitled "A Man is Stronger than Iron: My Years Under the Nazis in Ukraine," 150 pages, by Moishe (Michael) Woszczyna, originally of Stepan, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Woszczyna describes the German invasion of his town in 1941, anti-Jewish measures imposed by the Germans and Ukrainians, parachutists dropping on his town, the arrival of partisans, and life in the ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR) had ample knowledge of the persecution and, later, the extermination of the Jews. The CICR refrained from interfering in the issue of Jewish refugees due to fear of "political implications", and in the issue of political and racial prisoners in the concentration camps due to reluctance to "interfere in internal affairs" and the Nazis' refusal to cooperate. ...

In het boek wordt de rol en de positie van de aristocratie ten opzichte van het nazisme onder de loep genomen. Deze biografie over prrinses Dora de Saxe-Cobourg, kleindochter Koning Leopold II van Belgie en zuster van de Duitse keizer Wilhelm II, geeft een goede kijk op de werkelijkheid.

During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription of Hitler's full testimony is included.) At the time, Hitler was still trying to prove his embrace ...

Publié à l'occasion d'une exposition intitulée: Mémoire des camps, conçue et préparée par Patrimoine photographique et présentée à l'Hôtel de Sully, Paris, du 12 janvier au 25 mars 2001. "L'exposition a été conçue et préparée par Patrimoine photographique qui l'a présentée à l'Hôtel de Sully du 12 janvier au 25 mars 2001." P. facing t.p. 246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; ...

"Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds ...

Lit. opg.: p. 163-172.-Met reg. XIII, 178 p., [16] p. ill. : ill., krt. ; 25 cm