atrocities

Between 1938 and 1945 the Nazi regime, as part of Hitler's Final Solution, murdered more than 6 million Jews. This title discusses the atrocities committed.

Examines the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, describing how the killings were more widespread than many believed, and explores how those crimes influenced other events in modern history.

A collection of news articles by Seymour Hersh that originally appeared in "The New Yorker" that address a variety of topics related to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Presents diary entries from Mary Berg, which she began at the age of fifteen, and details her first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other horrors brought on by the Nazis during World War II, and describes how she was smuggled out of Warsaw along with her family.

A translation of the account, first published in 1946, of three former prisoners' experiences in Auschwitz; includes a glossary of Auschwitz terminology.

Following the harrowing ritual of selection for death or hard labor, a group of new inmates unsure of their appointed fates begins asking how God could allow for so much suffering. Impulsively, the men decide to put God on trial for abandoning His chosen people. Amid the outside sounds of prisoners being marched to the gas chamber, the trial unfolds. They group address the question: How can there be evil in a universe ruled by an all-powerful, benevolent God?.

A powerful story of the love and renewal that sprang up between the Jewish G.I. and many of the victims of the camps.

Eric Lomax was in Malaya during World War II and was taken prisoner and put to work on the infamous Burma-Siam Railway After the radio he illicitly helped build was discovered, he was subjected to two years of torture. He never forgot the interpreter at these sessions. At the end of the war he returned to England. Fifty years later he learned the interpreter was still alive. Moving beyond bitterness with the help of his wife, and knowing that he had to find some peace, he found out the man was still alive and they met once again.

Presents the idea that the notorious My Lai, Vietnam, massacre that occured during the Vietnam War, was not an isolated incident and that throughout Vietnam American troops systematically killed civilians.