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  • Sylvia Maultash Warsh The best Holocaust memoirs to understand what real people experienced Book cover of Album of My Life Book cover of If Only It Were Fiction Book cover of After Long Silence Book cover of The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Book cover of My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
  • Erik Brouwer The best books about Auschwitz you’ve probably never heard of Book cover of Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from Within the Camp Book cover of People in Auschwitz Book cover of Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano Book cover of Jazz Survivor: The Story of Louis Bannet, Horn Player of Auschwitz Book cover of Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival
  • Herlinde Pauer-Studer The best books on Nazi perpetrators Book cover of Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience Book cover of Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes and Trial of a Desk Murderer Book cover of The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive Book cover of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Book cover of An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office
  • Antony Polonsky The best books on the tragic fate of the Jews of East-Central Europe during the Holocaust Book cover of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Book cover of Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto Book cover of The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Book cover of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Book cover of East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
  • Ettie Zilber The best books about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe Book cover of The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal Book cover of The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews Book cover of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust Book cover of Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust Book cover of A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, a Search for the Truth
  • Michael Berenbaum The best books about the Holocaust and the horror it inflicted Book cover of The Destruction of the European Jews Book cover of Night Book cover of Survival in Auschwitz Book cover of Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology Book cover of Why? Explaining the Holocaust
  • Giles Milton The best books on the insanity of the Cold War Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Book cover of The Cold War: A World History Book cover of Bridge of Spies Book cover of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Book cover of 1946: The Making of the Modern World
  • Richard N. Lutjens Jr. The best books about the Holocaust and how humanity failed Book cover of Why? Explaining the Holocaust Book cover of The Nazi Conscience Book cover of The Years of Extermination, 1939 – 1945 Book cover of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Book cover of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
  • Patrick Hicks The best books about the concentration camps of the Holocaust Book cover of Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers Book cover of The Last Jew of Treblinka Book cover of Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps Book cover of Night Book cover of Survival in Auschwitz
  • Thomas A. Kohut The best books that seek to understand Nazi Perpetrators Book cover of A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide Book cover of Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives Book cover of Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience Book cover of The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators Book cover of Life and Death in the Third Reich
  • Matthew Jefferies The best recent books on Bismarck and Imperial Germany (1871-1918) Book cover of Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914 Book cover of Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 Book cover of Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 Book cover of German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures Book cover of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
  • Mirla G. Raz The best books about the Holocaust and remembering the world's failure Book cover of On the Borderline of Extermination: A Narrative of Inhumanity Book cover of Survival in Auschwitz Book cover of The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive Book cover of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 Book cover of Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
  • David Roman The best books on the batshit-crazy history of Nazi Germany Book cover of 1889-1936 Hubris Book cover of Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS Book cover of The Coming of the Third Reich Book cover of Lying about Hitler Book cover of I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
  • Geoffrey Parker The best books on the 17th Century Book cover of Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Book cover of The Death of Woman Wang Book cover of The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 Book cover of The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age Book cover of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
  • Michael Hickins The best books about the Holocaust and generational trauma Book cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History Book cover of Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany Book cover of The Glassmaker's Son: Looking for the World my Father left behind in Nazi Germany Book cover of The Girl Who Counted Numbers Book cover of Escaping the Whale: The Holocaust is over. But is it ever over for the next generation?
  • Derek Niemann The best books about the Holocaust from a variety of perspectives Book cover of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Book cover of The Long Night: A True Story Book cover of East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Book cover of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Book cover of Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
  • Keith Lowe The best books on the immediate aftermath of World War 2 Book cover of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Book cover of In the Ruins of the Reich Book cover of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Book cover of The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War Book cover of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
  • Kevin P. Spicer and Rebecca Carter-Chand The best books on German Protestantism in Hitler’s Germany Book cover of Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis Book cover of Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich Book cover of For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler Book cover of Faith and Fatherland: Parish Politics in Hitler's Germany Book cover of European Mennonites and the Holocaust
  • Edward B. Westermann The best books about perpetrator motivation in the Holocaust Book cover of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Book cover of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Book cover of An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office Book cover of Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka Book cover of A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944
  • Andrew Leigh The best books on populism from an economist and politician Book cover of The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era Book cover of The Authoritarian Dynamic Book cover of How Democracies Die Book cover of Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends Book cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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