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WWII/Holocaust/Occupation Books
Posted on 5/23/17 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 5/23/17 at 3:42 pm
Suggestions? I've already got a list of warfare-centric WWII books I'm working through, but novels or non-fiction about occupied life, or life in the camps, is what I'm focused on.
For example, I recently read The One Man and All the Light We Cannot See. I've read Night but may read it again soon. Others?
For example, I recently read The One Man and All the Light We Cannot See. I've read Night but may read it again soon. Others?
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Posted on 5/23/17 at 3:55 pm to Pettifogger
Treblinka - Jean Francois Steiner (about Treblinka, a concentration camp where there was a Jewish revolt).
The Ninth of November - Hannele Zürndorfer (first hand account of the Kristallnacht)
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Himmler - Robert Gerwarth (detailed biography about the author of the Final Solution).
I took a holocaust literature class at LSU and those are the three that stood out to me. If I could find my reading list I'd have a bunch more...
The Ninth of November - Hannele Zürndorfer (first hand account of the Kristallnacht)
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Himmler - Robert Gerwarth (detailed biography about the author of the Final Solution).
I took a holocaust literature class at LSU and those are the three that stood out to me. If I could find my reading list I'd have a bunch more...
Posted on 5/23/17 at 5:31 pm to SetTheMood
Thanks!
Posted on 5/23/17 at 8:57 pm to Pettifogger
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:11 pm to Pettifogger
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom was fascinating to me. It detailed life in the concentration camp but also the Netherlands before the occupation and how normal life was for her and her family then how suddenly it all changed. I guess I assumed it would have been a more gradual change. They had to suddenly make decisions to about how to react to the changes. Do you help people you don't know or focus on keeping yourself and your own family safe when neighbors were turning each other in?
Ordinary Men is on my stack to read but I haven't read it yet.
Ordinary Men is on my stack to read but I haven't read it yet.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:43 pm to Moxie
Any good ones that cover the Battle of Berlin?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:36 pm to Pettifogger
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All the Light We Cannot See.
Really enjoyed.
Check out The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, has a bit of everything!
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:43 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Battle of Berlin?
The Fall of Berlin Anthony Beevor is the gold standard.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:03 pm to Lakeboy7
Thanks!! I'll have to check it out.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:25 pm to Pettifogger
Tigers are burning.
Russian POV of the battle of kursk. (Largest armored battle ever)
Also, Night by elie wiesel should be a mandatory book for everyone to read. His journey from the Jewish ghettos to auschwitz and burkanau til his liberation.
It will make you cry.
Russian POV of the battle of kursk. (Largest armored battle ever)
Also, Night by elie wiesel should be a mandatory book for everyone to read. His journey from the Jewish ghettos to auschwitz and burkanau til his liberation.
It will make you cry.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:30 pm to Moxie
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Ordinary Men
One about reserve police battalion 101? Wonderful book. Plays Devils advocate.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 3:26 pm to beerJeep
Masters of Death
About Einsatzgruppen (?) on the Eastern Front
About Einsatzgruppen (?) on the Eastern Front
Posted on 5/26/17 at 3:53 pm to 14&Counting
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Einsatzgruppen (?) on the Eastern Front
Read The Kindly Ones man, I mean brutally graphic detail.
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