Resources

There are thousands of books about World War II and the Holocaust, enough to overwhelm anyone. I was lucky in that, for a time, I lived only hours from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Many resources were in German, but I was fortunate to get the English translations.

If you’re interested in learning more, below are a few books (in English!) you may want to check out. Some are out of print, but you might get lucky at your local library. If not, abebooks.com is a fantastic site for reasonably-priced second-hand and out-of-print books.

The Lebensborn Project/Children in Nazi Germany

Children to a Degree: Growing Up Under the Third Reich, Horst Christian
Gold is Where You Hide It, W. Stanley Moss
Hitler’s Forgotten Children, Ingrid von Oelhaffen and Tim Tate
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
Master Race, Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman
Of Pure Blood (AKA Children of the SS), Mark Hillel and Clarissa Henry
Tales of the Master Race, Marcie Hershman
Ten Thousand Children, Anne L. Fox and Eva Abraham-Podietz

Women in the Third Reich

Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics, Claudia Koonz
Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany, Cynthia Crane
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich, Alison Owings
The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Edith Hahn Beer

Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military

Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army, Georg Rauch
Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, Bryan Mark Rigg

General (Nazi Germany)

The Nazi Seizure of Power, William Sheridan Allen
The Order of the Death’s Head, Heinz Hohne
Confront! Resistance in Nazi Germany, John J. Michalczyek
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer
In Hitler’s Germany, Bernt Engelmann

And finally…there’s a wealth of information on the Internet, including: