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41) Execution
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Plot to kill Hitler volume 02
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"The action-packed second installment of the series based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters!"--
42) White knights in the Black Orchestra: the extraordinary story of the Germans who resisted Hitler
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"The riveting and tension-filled story of a small group of conspirators who plotted relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. Behind the front lines of World War II, a clandestine war within a war was being waged in Nazi Germany. As the "Final Solution" unfolded and fascism swept across Europe, a network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and a smattering of civilians were doing everything in their power to...
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From 1919 onwards, there were many people who wanted to kill Hitler. But when he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the desire became more urgent. After all, what do you do when the leader of your country has destroyed all political freedoms, annexed all power and is leading all of its people towards destruction? This is a story of all the plots against Hitler, of secret meetings in freezing fields, of bombs in briefcases, of conspiracies against...
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"Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, takes us from Berlin to...
46) Escape
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Plot to kill Hitler volume 03
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English
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After the attempt on Hitler's life, the Hoffmanns must flee Berlin, but they have to leave Father behind at the mercy of the Gestapo.
47) 13 minutes
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During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region. A story of a man who nearly changed the world.
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The year is 1939. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, has invaded Poland. The world is about to enter into the biggest and most terrible war in history. But from the depths of despair rose some very courageous, selfless individuals, such as Sophie Scholl, Violette Szabo and Raymond Aubrac, who risked their lives for the sakes of others in need, often for no gain and with no recognition. Here are some of their incredible stories…
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A heart-stopping survivor story and brilliant historical investigation that offers unprecedented insight into daily life in the Third Reich and the Holocaust and the powers and pitfalls of memory.
At the outbreak of World War II, Marianne Strauss, the sheltered daughter of well-to-do German Jews, was an ordinary girl, concerned with studies, friends, and romance. Almost overnight she was transformed into a woman of spirit and defiance, a fighter...
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Film Movement volume 10, film 1
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Français
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In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
52) Słowik
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Polish
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"Dwie siostry, Isabelle i Vianne, dzieli wszystko: wiek, okoliczności ,w jakich przyszło im dorastać, i doświadczenia. Kiedy w 1940 roku do Francji wkracza armia niemiecka, każda z nich rozpoczyna własną niebezpieczną drogę do przetrwania, miłości i wolności. Zbuntowana Isabelle dołącza do ruchu oporu, nie zważając na śmiertelne niebezpieczeństwo, jakie ściąga na całą rodzinę. Opuszczona przez zmobilizowanego męża Vianne musi...
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"Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces, "--NoveList.
"In November 1942, American spymaster Allen Dulles slipped into Switzerland just before Nazi forces sealed the border. His mission: to report on the inner workings of the Third Reich. Code-named Agent 110 by the OSS, he discovered a network...
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"In March 1945 Hitler ordered his last propaganda command: send all 15 and 16-year old boys to defend the fatherland. 47 DAYS tells the true story of Günter and Helmut, best friends, who dared to defy and disobey. Without knowing how long the war might continue, they spent 47 harrowing days as fugitives on the run. Being caught meant certain execution. 47 DAYS is an excerpt from the novel, SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND--A True Coming-of-age Love Story...
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"Confessions of a Nazi Spy may have been the first cinematic shot fired by Hollywood against Nazis in America, but it by no means marked the political awakening of the film industry's Jewish executives to the problem. Hollywood's Spies tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who paid private investigators to infiltrate Nazi groups operating in Los Angeles, establishing the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the...
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"On July 20, 1944, a one-eyed, one-armed veteran of Rommel's Afrika Korps smuggled a briefcase full of high explosive into a conference room in the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's East Prussian command headquarters. Finally, after ten years of intrigues and reversals, disappointment and vacillation, the German officer corps had turned against its master, Adolf Hitler.".
"Operation Valkyrie - the code name for the military coup d'etat - was underway. The authors...
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"Berlin, 1932: Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious teenager, forced to live a double life when her father and boyfriend become Nazis. She finds refuge with her beloved elderly neighbor, Isaac Zarco, and his friends, most of whom are Jews, ex-circus performers, and underground activists. They form a secret resistance group called the Ring. When a series of forced sterilizations, brutal murders, and "disappearings" to concentration camps decimates...
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Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II. Idealistic, serious, and sensible, Hans and Sophie Scholl joined the Hitler Youth with youthful and romantic enthusiasm. But as Hitler's grip throttled Germany and Nazi atrocities mounted, Hans and Sophie emerged from their adolescence with the conviction that at all costs they...
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