It's April 1940 & German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down & stay out of trouble But Bamse & his daring friend Anton can't resist playing the occasional practical joke on the invading soldiers When it becomes clear that the trouble isn't just going to pass them by the people of Denmark decide to take action & Bamse & his eccentric family are about to take part in one of history's most dramatic rescues
- smuggling Denmark's Jewish population across the water to Sweden & safety Many of the characters are based on Sandi's own family including her father Bamse & the book was inspired by the stories her told to her
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&A prizewinning novel for readers of 8 – 12 told through the voice of a contemporary child as she weaves a story about a secret child of Hitler The bombs were falling the smoke was rising from the concentration camps but all Hitler’s daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold & infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi her father Was it just a story? Did Hitler’s daughter really exist? If you were Hitler’s daughter would it all be your fault? Could you still love your own father if he had done what Hitler did? Mark a contemporary child starts to question his own beliefs as he listens to the story that Anna weaves A wonderfully sensitive & gripping time-slip novel that will sit well with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Number the Stars & Big Tom WW2 is a major historical topic studied in in UK primary & secondary schools but this novel also deals with questions children so often ask of the ‘ What if?’ variety& ...

' More than 70 years ago I was a "gift" for Adolf Hitler I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments Lebensborn'; The Lebensborn programme was the brainchild of Himmler an extraordinary plan to create an Aryan master race leaving behind thousands of displaced victims in the wake of the Nazi regime; In Hitler's Forgotten Children Ingrid von Oelhafen shares her incredible story as a child of the Lebensborn a lonely childhood with a distant foster family; her painstaking & difficult search for answers in post-war Germany; & finally being reunited with her biological family
- with one last shocking truth to be discovered
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In September 1943 at the height of World War II the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried in vain to retain control of the island Over the course of two short months
- from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943
- almost 1500 men lost their lives & hundreds more ended up in Prisoner-of-War camps In this book Julie Peakman a modern-day resident of Leros brings to life the story of the men caught up in the battle based on first-hand interviews & written accounts including diaries letters & journals She tells of the preparations of the soldiers leading up to the battle the desperate h&-to-hand fighting & the suffering endured from continual bombings She also shows the extent of the men's despair at the allied surrender the many subsequent daring escapes as well as the terrible years of incarceration for those who were captured & imprisoned Many of the heart-rending accounts of the battle are told here for the first time providing a unique eyewitness take on this forgotten corner of World War II

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On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos
- Russian troops have reached Berlin All over the country people are on the move
- concentration

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During the Second World War the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful & daring operations such as the capture of the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael in 1940 & the invasion of Crete in 1941 Hitler's Sky Warriors is a detailed examination of all the battles & campaigns of the Third Reich's airborne forces illustrated throughout by many previously unpublished photographs Hitler's Sky Warriors

Includes:: detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions especially in Italy where their epic defence of Monte Cassino entered military legend As well as being a comprehensive account of Fallschirmjger battles & campaigns Hitler's Sky Warriors

Includes:: information on the specialist weapons & equipment developed for Germany's airborne forces These include the paratrooper helmet the FG 42 automatic rifle the so-called 'gravity knife' the different jump smocks parachutes & harnesses transport aircraft & gliders Hitler's Sky Warriors also contains biographical details on all the main parachute commanders such as Kurt Student Bernhard Herman Ramcke & Richard Heidrich &

Includes:: appendices that contain information about divisional orders of battle & Knight's Cross winners In this way Hitler's Sky Warriors builds into an extensive & exciting account of one of the elite formations of military history





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A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns relations with the Nazi regime & complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945 it was generally believed that the German army professional & morally decent had largely stood apart from the SS Gestapo & other corps of the Nazi machine Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources & recent scholarship to convey a much darker more complex picture For the first time the German army is examined throughout the Second World War across all combat theaters & occupied regions & from multiple perspectives its battle performance social composition relationship with the Nazi state & involvement in war crimes & military occupation This was a true people's army drawn from across German society & reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis Without the army & its conquests abroad Shepherd explains the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews prisoners of war & civilians in occupied countries The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes & why some soldiers units & higher commands were more complicit than others Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army's early battlefield successes & its mounting defeats up to 1945 the latter due not only to Allied superiority & Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief but also to the failings-moral political economic strategic & operational-of the army's own leadership ...

Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled & his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true That question is How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society & its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945 The author marshals fresh primary evidence
- including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators
- to show that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as they did (they knew they could refuse without retribution) yet they killed willingly & zealously

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This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians The volume brings together the most important & influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler & the Final Solution popular opinion & the Jews in Nazi Germany & the Final Solution in historiography-and Kershaw provides an introduction & a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich & he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes & consequences of Nazi policy His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped & did not shape Nazi policy This volume presents a comprehensive multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership & of the attitudes & behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play History is always written by the victors this is the other side of the coin This is the ultimate overview of World War II as seen through the eyes of the losing side; the men who fought for Hitler This unique 3 DVD collection

Includes:: Personal accounts by the men who fought on the side of Hitler Extensive archive footage & rare war time photographs Draws extensively from the footage of the German news crews DVD 1 THE U BOAT WAR DVD 2 THE DESERT WAR DVD 3 STALINGRAD

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