1933-1945

Recounts the story of the Olympics held in Berlin in 1936, and how the Nazis attempted to turn the games into a propaganda tool for their cause.

Argues that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs deepened the Great Depression, slowed economic growth, and hurt America's future by expanding the federal government, raising taxes, developing Social Security, and making new labor laws.

Examines the Nazis' use of punch card technology and custom-designed machines for the Final Solution, and investigates the extent to which IBM understood what its products were used for--identifying Jews, running railroads, and organizing concentration camp slave labor.

The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.

Examines Italy's foreign policy in the late interwar period, drawing from declassified materials to discuss the nature of Benito Mussolini's relationship with Adolf Hitler and his decision to declare war against England and France in 1940.

The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.

The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anita's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.

Argues that World War II was the direct result of Hitler's racial hatred and was eventually used as a veil behind which Hitler implemented and masked his genocidal ambitions.