Recommended Reading

Ian Kershaw examines a core of die-hard fanatics, an obedient and still functioning state structure, and a compliant public that did nothing to interfere with the dying regime's final murderous acts.

From his birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the twentieth century.

Brown University Professor David Kertzer examines the history of the Vatican during the Holocaust, written with access to the recently opened Vatican archives. Kertzer looks at the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini and how Pope Pius XI accommodation of Mussolini helped Hitler gain power in Europe.

A novel about fourteen-year-old Gyorgy Koves' experience being deported from his home in Budapest to Auschwitz.

A novel about "the commissioner's" trip to a nondescript town in a middle-European country, which turns into an ominous journey.

Translated by Martin Chalmers. Life during the Holocaust is illustrated in the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew whose life was spared because of his marriage to an "Aryan." His diary documents the gradual loss of his rights, his friends, his possessions, and ultimately his dignity as a Jew in Nazi Germany. Through personal and detailed accounts of daily life, the banalities of the Third Reich are revealed.