"The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! Once Irma Grese was old enough to secure a training spot in the newly-created corps of female S...

Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich’s Insidious Impact on America" is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States from Nazi Germany’s origins to the present. What is most striking about this work is that the long-term effects of Nazi inventions and innovations—from practical inventions (advanced computers, electron microscopes, electro-magnetic tape, et al.) to aviation and avionics (“swept-winged,” stealth ai...

Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich's Insidious Impact on America" is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States from Nazi Germany's origins to the present. What is most striking about this work is that the long-term effects of Nazi inventions and innovations—from practical inventions (advanced computers, electron microscopes, electro-magnetic tape, et al.) to aviation and avionics ("swept-winged," stealth ai...

Indebted America explores the manner in which debt has played in the development of the United States of America and the ways that indebtedness continues to hinder—and often perplex—the nation and its citizens.The first portion of the study focuses on indentured servitude, the origin of bankruptcy legislation, and the problems American leaders and well-known personalities had with debt. The latter section delves into the problems that both the United States as well as its ...

American Chronicle: An Inclusive History explores the manner in which the United States evolved from the arrival of the first Europeans, 471 years prior to Columbus, to the rise of Big Business in the Gilded Age. Along with the major themes of the American experience, this expansive study provides long-neglected components of America's development, including the role language, music, contagious disease, and fashion played in molding the nation.In addition, American Chr...

Indebted America explores the manner in which debt has played in the development of the United States of America and the ways that indebtedness continues to hinder-and often perplex-the nation and its citizens.The first portion of the study focuses on indentured servitude, the origin of bankruptcy legislation, and the problems American leaders and well-known personalities had with debt. The latter section delves into the problems that both the United States as well as its ...

The story of the American people has been traditionally written as "victory history." In this narrative, Euromericans come to the Western Hemisphere, dominate the existing Indigenous peoples, and ultimately create the greatest nation in the world. This version has been misleading, misguided, and occasionally downright wrong."American Chronicle: An Inclusive History" (Volume I) is an in-depth examination of American history from the arrival of Euromericans to the administration of Ru...

The Beautiful Beast documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! Once Irma Grese was old enough to secure a training spot in the newly-created corps of f...

This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a l...

The personal story of a young Jewish girl trapped in Nazi Germany. Separated from her younger sister, Edith and her mother witness the farce of the Red Cross visit to Terezin, escape the gas chambers of Auschwitz, and survive the labor camps of the Russian Front. This is a story of horror and miracles, and of triumph against all odds.

"A poignant and riveting investigation" behind an iconic photograph of the Holocaust in Poland (Elie Wiesel)."An often disturbing, sometimes uplifting but always fascinating and incredible piece of history drawn from a single image. This book is destined to become a classic piece of work on the Holocaust." — The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV)A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A c...

Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings as a barber, a clothes-sorter, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same bodies. In August 1943, there was an uprising at the camp, and Rajchman was among the ...