prisoners and prisons, german

A World War II escape narrative, telling the story of how Jan Baalsrud, a member of a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos who were ambushed on their way to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance, managed to evade the Nazis and make his way to a small arctic village whose residents were determined to save him.

Recounts the stories of astonishing escapes and escape attempts made during World War II from Colditz Castle, the POW camp reserved by the Third Reich for the most ingenious, persistent escape artists from lesser camps.

Describes the little-known Gypsy holocaust during World War II through the fictional characters Roman Mirga and the Lowland Gypsies of his "kumpania.".

Presents a concise history of Auschwitz, and describes how it became a center of the mass killing of thousands of Jews during World War Two.

Tells the story of World War II paratrooper Joseph Beyrle, an American soldier presumed dead after D-Day, who, through a series of captures and escapes, became the only man to fight for both the U.S. and Russia against the Nazis.

Chronicles the experiences of American G.I. Dale Aldrich during the Second World War, during which he served as a ball turret, or belly gunner, on a B-17 bomber, flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and spending more than a year interned in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp.

Recounts the true story of a group of Allied airmen who planned a daring escape from a German prison camp during World War II.

The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans.

Black and white photographs capture the Nazi concentration camps as they exist today--quiet, empty, and crumbling.