The "frank, tragic, bittersweet, brutal, emotional" true story of the Third Reich's so-called she-devils of the League of German Girls (Gerry Van Tonder, author of Berlin Blockade).They were ten to eighteen years old: German girls who volunteered for the war effort, and were indoctrinated into the Nazi youth organizations, Jungmädelbund and Bund Deutcscher Mädel. At first they were schooled in a very narrow education: ho...

From the author of Hitler's Girls comes the revealing true story of the aftermath of WWII—told by the Third Reich's fallen "Angels of Death" themselves.In the wake of Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 and Japan's subsequent surrender later that July, the Allied press proclaimed across the world "Victory! War is Over!" The truth for many Germans, particularly the teenage girls of the former Bund Deutscher Mädel, was that a new war was just begin...

Funny, poignant, charming and deeply sad at times, this is a fascinating insight into a teaching life.With his sharp wit and poet's eye, Tim Heath writes of a forty-year career, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa. He's worked in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence School, in primary schools and in secondary schools. He's been a principal and a deputy principal.Teaching wasn't his first choice, but once in the classroom he ...

A historian seeks to answer "What created Hitler's Germany?" by examining personal stories and first-hand accounts of post-World War I German families.Germany's defeat in the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that followed were national disasters, with far-reaching consequences not just for the country but for the world itself.Weaving the stories of three German families from the beginning of Germany's territorial aspirations of the First World W...

"An intriguing, but also shocking insight into the thoughts of those young German women and how they saw their part in Hitler's thousand-year Reich." — ArmoramaThe women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did?We hear from women who issued typewritten dictates from above thr...

“… has a good number of photos of the actual weaponry and the effects it had on Allied planes etc.” – A Wargamers Needful ThingsFrom the outbreak of war in 1939, German Luftwaffe armament designers and technicians pioneered many revolutionary concepts in the barrelled armaments of their military aircraft, particularly as the threat posed by the combined US and British Allied strategic bombing campaign grew in intensity from 1943. Desperate solutions were sought in ...

Sex under the Swastika is a journey through the dark secretive corridors of the Third Reich’s powerbase and it’s near-pathological sexual obsession with young women, sex, Satanism and the occult.Based on interviews, eyewitness accounts and using newly revealed material from the sons and daughters of former SS officers who were part of Adolf Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich’s personal staff, we learn about the sexual conduct, affairs, scandals and fetishes of some of Hitler’s m...

Explores Nazi and Japanese WWII human experimentation, revealing the horrifying abuses, motivations, and post-war consequences, including evasion of justice. Among the most appalling cruelties perpetrated throughout the course of the Second World War was undoubtedly that of human medical and military experimentation conducted upon both living and deceased human beings. The various Nazi human experimentation programs were initially carried out not so much in the pursuit of any particular sc...

As the last flames of the Second World War flickered and died, Germany emerged into an apocalyptic wasteland, where the Hitler Youth generation would be cursed with the running sore of National Socialism. With the uncaged bear of the Soviet Union flexing its muscles and the escalating tensions between East and West providing some distraction from the funeral pyre of the Third Reich, those living in West Germany soon understood that they were the geological bulkhead, a component in the prev...

This WWII history chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Prussia as well as the ill-fated exodus of its civilian refugees in 1945.Seen as an agricultural utopia within Hitler's Germany, Prussia is thought to have gone untouched during the Second World War. Yet the violence of the National Socialist regime was widespread throughout the German state.As the Red Army advanced on its borders in 1945, nearly ten thousand civilians evacuated the region aboard the MV

Chronicles life under East Germany’s GDR, the Berlin Wall’s rise, and citizens’ struggle for freedom.At midnight of 12 August 1961 East Germany became partitioned from the West by an ideological barrier that would remain a chancroid rash upon the political landscape of post WW2 Europe for some forty-five years. Initially little more than rolls of barbed wire, this barrier soon became the concrete monolith known the world over as the Berlin Wall.Prior to the...

Austria's Anschluss - its 'annexation' - saw no gunfire, no bloodcurdling screams of Stukas overhead or the rumble of heavy artillery when German troops marched in on 12 March 1938. It was no 'Blitzkrieg' on the contrary, some Austrians even welcomed the 'invaders' and the opportunity to unite the ethnic German peoples under the rule of Austria's most infamous son, Adolf Hitler. Austria's wealth of natural and mineral resources were especially useful to support the Third Reich's aggression...