Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd – the rise of fascism seen through the eyes of everyday people – is a fascinating book. While the analysis part of it lacks a bit, the rest is so well researched and so nicely written that…
A Prisoner of Stalin by Christian Huber – The Chilling Story of a Luftwaffe Pilot Shot Down and Captured on the Eastern Front* is an interesting book, a primary source from two points of view, a primary source for Ehlert’s life that includes him in…
Hitler’s Henchmen by Helmut Ortner* – Nazi Executioners and How They Escaped Justice After WWII was shocking to read. Not because of what the Nazis did, that was to be expected, but what happened in Germany ever since. He is highly critical of the German…
A Judge in Auschwitz by Kevin Prenger* – Konrad Morgen’s Crusade Against SS Corruption and ‘Illegal’ Murder – must be one of the best books I read this year. Unlike most of the books about Auschwitz or the German genocide of Jews, which deal with…
Himmler’s Death Squad by Ian Baxter* – Einsatzgruppen in Action, 1939–1944 contains rare photographs from wartime archives. This is a photograph-based book, very much like another book by him that I reviewed recently on Concentration Camp Overseers. This book is filled with horrifying images, but…
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner – A family’s story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall – was recommended by Kelly. I thank her for telling me about this wonderful book. I loved it, it is such a heartbreaking but beautiful…
The Forgotten German Genocide by Peter C Brown* is an analysis of the Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945–50, as the subtitle describes. The book is very well structured. It starts with details on the Final Solution, how the euthanasia programme started and the gas…