Hitler S Girl

Author : Lauren Young
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062936752

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Hitler's Girl by Lauren Young Pdf

A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy—using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today’s turn toward authoritarianism. Hitler’s Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi sympathies among the British aristocracy, as significant factions of the upper class methodically pursued an actively pro-German agenda. She reveals how these aristocrats formed a murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on the complacence and complicity of the English to topple its proud and long-standing democratic tradition—and very nearly succeeded. As she highlights the parallels to our similarly treacherous time, Young exposes the involvement of secret organizations like the Right Club, which counted the Duke of Wellington among its influential members; the Cliveden Set, which ran a shadow foreign policy in support of Hitler; and the shocking four-year affair between socialite Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler. Eye-opening and instructive, Hitler’s Girl re-evaluates 1930s England to help us understand our own vulnerabilities and poses urgent questions we must face to protect our freedom. At what point does complacency become complicity, posing real risk to the democratic norms that we take for granted? Will democracy again succeed—and will it require a similarly cataclysmic event like World War II to ensure its survival? Will we, in our own defining moment, stand up for democratic values—or will we succumb to political extremism?

Author : Tim Heath
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526705341

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Hitler's Girls by Tim Heath Pdf

The “frank, tragic, bittersweet, brutal, emotional” true story of the Third Reich’s so-called she-devils of the League of German Girls (Gerry Van Tonder, author of Berlin Blockade). They were ten to eighteen years old: German girls who volunteered for the war effort, and were indoctrinated into the Nazi youth organizations, Jungmädelbund and Bund Deutcscher Mädel. At first they were schooled in a very narrow education: how to cook, clean, excel at sports, birth babies, and raise them. But when Hitler called, they were trained, militarized, and exploited for the ultimate goal of the Third Reich. From the prosperous beginnings of the League of German Girls in 1933 to the cataclysmic defeat of 1945, Hitler’s Girls is an insightful, disturbing, and revealing exploration of their specific roles: what was expected of them, and how they delivered, as defined by the Nazi state. Were they unwitting pawns or willing accessories to genocide? Historian Tim Heath searches for the answers and provides a definitive voice for this unique, and until now, unheard generation of German females. “An essential account of the women who served Hitler during his years of power. Stunning photographs but a chilling narrative, in view of what they were required to do.” —Books Monthly

Author : Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781561456819

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Eleanor's Story by Eleanor Ramrath Garner Pdf

An engrossing coming-of-age autobiography of a young American caught in Nazi Germany during World War II. During the Great Depression, when Eleanor is nine, her family moves from her beloved America to Germany, from which her parents had emigrated years before and where her father has been offered a job he cannot pass up. But when war suddenly breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, they realize returning to the United States isn't an option. They arrive in Berlin as enemy aliens. Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She and her brother are enrolled in German schools and in Hitler's Youth (a requirement). She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy. This compelling story is heart-racing at times and immerses readers in a first-hand account of Nazi Germany, surviving World War II as a civilian, and immigration.

Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780730491941

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Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French Pdf

Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year for Young Readers Did Hitler's daughter, Heidi, really exist? - What if she did? The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler's daughter really exist? And i you were Hitler's daughter, would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do things that happened a long time ago still matter? MORE ACCLAIM FOR HITLER'S DAUGHTER First published in 1999, Hitler's Daughter has sold over 100,000 copies in Australia alone and has received great critical acclaim, both in Australia and the twelve counties where it has been published. Hitler's Daughter has also won or been shortlisted for 23 awards, both in Australia and internationally, including winner of the 2000 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Younger Readers. Hitler's Daughter has also been adapted into an award-winning play by the MonkeyBaa theatre.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798350000160

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Summary of Lauren Young's Hitler's Girl by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Great War, which saw two and a half million Germans die and four million wounded, left a discernible line in the sand between the victors and the vanquished. For Germany, the vanquished, losing the war left the turmoil of economic uncertainty, unbridled violence, and boiling resentment. #2 In the 1930s, the German government passed increasingly harsh laws against any perceived threats to the accelerating power of the Nazi machine. This included anti-Semitic art, which was exhibited in Munich in a show called Degenerate Art. #3 The Weimar Republic, which was established following World War I, was a disaster for Germany, seeing two and a half million Germans die and four million wounded. The process of brutalization brought by the paramilitary groups resulted in street violence and the mass killing of civilians, as well as prominent German politicians and members of the Communist Party. #4 The streets of German cities were marked by violence and disability following the Great War, while the streets of London were deceptively calm. The British Empire was beginning to feel the strain of maintaining a far-flung empire and the cost in human life and economic drain of fighting a total war.

Author : Trudi Kanter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451696592

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Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler by Trudi Kanter Pdf

“ FOR EVEN IN NAZI VIENNA, Trudi realized, women still looked in the mirror. . . . She knows that even in the bleak darkness, we feel, love, desire. She left no child (she and Walter tried, with no success); her hats are long lost, but her book is her legacy, discovered once again.” —From the introduction by Linda Grant, a uthor of The Clothes on Their Backs, The Thoughtful Dresser and We Had It So Good In 1938 Trudi Kanter, stunningly beautiful, chic and charismatic, was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She frequented the most elegant cafés. She had suitors. She flew to Paris to see the latest fashions. And she fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape. In prose that cuts straight to the bone, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe. It was her courage, resourcefulness and perseverance that kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion and that make this an indelible memoir of love and survival. Sifting through a secondhand bookshop in London, an English editor stumbled upon this extraordinary book, and now, though she died in 1992, the world has a second chance to discover Trudi Kanter’s enchanting story. In these pages she is alive—vivid, tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.

Author : Emma Tennant,Hilary Bailey
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939293329

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Hitler's Girls by Emma Tennant,Hilary Bailey Pdf

Adolf Hitler’s secret mistress, an upstanding member of the British aristocracy, gives birth to a daughter. The child is whisked away at infancy and raised as an orphan. She is protected from the truth concerning her origins, but that doesn’t prevent the remnants of Hitler’s scattered empire from seeking her out as part of a plot to reignite their dream of conquering Europe. Enter into our drama the starchy, conservative Jean Hastie, an art historian and official for the Scottish National Trust. When her best friend Monica is murdered she is determined to avenge her death and to rescue Monica’s granddaughter, Mel, who is missing and the prime suspect in the crime. She soon finds herself embroiled in the neo-Nazi’s conspiracy. Jean sets off to find Mel, traversing crime-ridden London housing projects, the Paris apartment of a former Nazi lawyer, and a chateau in the South of France where a quaint village camouflages a sinister political conclave. In Hitler’s Girls, Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey’s wry, atmospheric prose conjures a whirlwind adventure full of international intrigue, subtle humor, and terrifying, timely, political speculation.

Author : Timothy B. Benford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595006639

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Hitler's Daughter... Wants to Occupy the White House by Timothy B. Benford Pdf

On a dark night in May, 1945, a pregnant woman is spirited out of Europe on a U-boat. Now, more than five decades later, proof has been found by White House aide Ted Scott that the silent but central architect of the resurgence of neo-Nazism in the United States is Adolf Hitler’s daughter. Suspected: Sharon Franklin, an ambitious, attractive and nationally known TV anchorwoman. She is rumored to have been the bedmate of the Secretary of State; Congresswoman Leona Crawford Gordon, ruthless, and a strong contender to become the first woman president or vice president of the United States; and Susan Benedict, wife of the incumbent vice president. In a dangerous and explosive race against time, Ted Scott travels back to that dark night in 1945 to discover who is HITLER’S DAUGHTER?

Author : Erika V. Shearin Karres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Germany
ISBN : PSU:000047416925

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A German Tale by Erika V. Shearin Karres Pdf

Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526779557

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Hitler and his Women by Phil Carradice Pdf

This unique biography examines Hitler’s many female relationships, from his mother and sisters to his girlfriends, secretaries, and adoring public. To most of the world, Adolf Hitler was a ranting, evil demagogue whose insane ambitions caused incalculable harm to humanity. But to the women in his life, he was kind, compassionate, and loving—a man to be admired and adored. In Hitler and His Women, historian Phil Carradice explores the Fuhrer’s many relationships with women, from his romantic involvements to his interactions with female staff and the thousands of women who flocked to hear him speak. While many are familiar with Eva Braun, she was not alone in her role as the Fuhrer’s lover. Dozens of women preceded her, including Mitzi Reiter, Henny Hoffmann, and his own niece Geli Raubal. To them and many others, Hitler was the ultimate romantic. From deep familial bonds to a teenage infatuation with a girl he never met, from actresses like Zara Leander to English aristocrat Unity Mitford, Carradice examines how Hitlers relationships with women affected the course of history.

Author : Stanley Marvin Coren
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664161658

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Born Under a Black Cloud and Then I Married Hitler’s Daughter by Stanley Marvin Coren Pdf

The primary reason for writing this book was to describe the difficult circumstances I have encountered in every endeavor that eventually ended my quest for success. Although I never failed in any challenge, the end was always predictable. I was always doomed to be the loser. My attempts to achieve success were always to follow clearly marked paths that numerous people before me had followed and found success. They achieved their goals. It never worked for me. In every endeavor I began with the full knowledge of how I was to proceed and operate until some unforeseen problem interfered. I thought that I was a success in the Race to the moon until that race was cancelled by a war. I was overcome by flood from a broken water main that destroyed my business. A sudden change in the law that at first protected my business and then later denied it. A sudden fire in an adjacent building destroyed the roof of my business. A change in how computers made life amazingly good was replaced by cell phones. It appeared that somehow I was not meant to be a success. My Reason Even before I was born my goal was to be born but that was quickly changed to mere survival. My mother attempted an early abortion by bathing in a tub that was filled with a laundry lye soap that was definitely a method used to kill the unborn child within her, but it ultimately failed, and I was born. Of course, I never knew about this even till much later in my life. I then began my life not knowing that every future opportunity was predestined to not come to fruition. I never understood that my path to success was under the path of my personal Dark Cloud. My first marriage was wonderful until several years later my wife learned of how she was born and the infamous circumstance that permitted her birth was enough to destroy everything two years later. Marvin Coren

Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338233063

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Stolen Girl by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Pdf

A companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family. Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though her adoptive mother says they are safe now, Nadia's flashbacks keep coming.Sometimes she remembers running, hunger, and isolation. But other times she remembers living with a German family, and attending big rallies where she was praised for her light hair and blue eyes. The puzzle pieces don't quite fit together, and Nadia is scared by what might be true. Could she have been raised by Nazis? Were they her real family? What part did she play in the war?What Nadia finally discovers about her own history will shock her. But only when she understands the past can she truly face her future.Inspired by startling true events, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch delivers a gripping and poignant story of one girl's determination to uncover her truth.

Author : Sarah Helm
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748112432

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If This Is A Woman by Sarah Helm Pdf

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivors On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved. 'It not only fills a gap in Holocaust history but it is an utterly compelling read' Taylor Downing, History Today 'A sense of urgency infuses this history, which comes just in time to gather the testimony of the camp's survivors . . . meticulous, unblinking . . . [Helm's] book comes not a moment too soon' The Economist

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061978227

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Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen Pdf

"A textured picture of Hitler's histrionic personality and his insane mission for glory, presaging the genocide to come in the cold-blooded obliteration of one young woman." — Publishers Weekly Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler's apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.

Author : Tim Heath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Girls
ISBN : 1526705354

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Hitler's Girls by Tim Heath Pdf