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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000, 2001
Language
English
Description
The documentary tells the story of a group of children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia who were fortunate enough to escape the unfathomable horror of the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people during WWII. They were saved by the Kindertransport, which took 10,000 children to the safety of England in the late 1930s. (The United States government, which could have sponsored a similar program, declined to do so.) Assuming that the broad...
Series
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Prelude to War: began as a training video for U.S. Troops compares the "free" world to the "slave" world--the dictatorships of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Used widely as a propaganda piece, the film endures as a study of how governments survive to justify wars to those who fight them.
The Nazi strike: Capra's documentary depicts Germany's diplomatic and military betrayals leading up to the 1939 invasion of Poland and the events that finally led France...
904) One-third nerd
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
906) The seed woman
Author
Series
Seed traders' saga volume 1
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the last month of 1849, Hannah, pregnant by a traveling seed trader, arrives in a small village in the Swabian Mountains to find the father of her child. Helmut is due to be married to the town beauty in January and Hannah is determined to win his love for herself but the longer she stays, the more attached she becomes to both the town and to Helmut's fianc�ee.
907) Never look away
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Colonel Robert Hogan and his gang of merry saboteurs have a whole new season of subterfuge to unleash on the German war machine and the POW camp's incompetent commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After a school trip to Israel, Johanna discover's that her German grandfather acquired a clothing store during the Nazi regime according to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich rather than starting it himself as her family has always stated. She struggles with whether to keep silent or to question her family's history.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"The stunning memoir of a girl coming of age in Hitler's Germany, her subsequent imprisonment in the Russian Gulag, and her posthumously discovered love letters to a mysterious soldier on the front-written during the final siege of Berlin."--Book jacket.
911) Where eagles dare
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An American general is shot down over Germany during WWII and captured. Unknown to the Germans, he has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. British Intelligence puts together a team to rescue him, but an American is in the squad for reasons unknown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Truman State University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Loren Schmidtberger grew up in a Volga German community in Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He carried the legacy and lessons of his childhood with him when he left the farm and became a teacher in the eastern U.S."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Profiles three royal cousins--George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia--whose actions shaped the course of twentieth-century history, drawing on hitherto unpublished diaries and letters.
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