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"Haunted Laughter is a comprehensive study of film productions that have used comedy to represent Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Author Jonathan Friedman proposes a model and a set of criteria to evaluate the effective use of comedy as a means of representation"--
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Known to his university colleagues as the preeminent archaeologist Dr. Henry Jones Jr., the rest of the world knows him by another name-- Indiana Jones, greatest adventurer of the twentieth century! Indiana Jones faces a race against the Nazis to recover artifacts like the Golden Fleece, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Spear of Destiny. He faces legendary monster, ancient cults and armies of the undead.
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"Gdy świat się rozpadał, one żyły w luksusie, wśród zrabowanych dzieł sztuki, niewolniczej służby, jedząc warzywa i owoce z ogrodów uprawianych przy obozach koncentracyjnych. Tkwiły jednak w nieudanych małżeństwach, znosząc oszustwa i zdrady, samobójstwa, zabójstwa, odrzucenie, a w końcu ubóstwo i uwięzienie. Ich życie było całkowicie podporządkowane sprawom hitlerowskiego państwa, a nieostrożne zachowanie mogło zniszczyć...
493) Souvenirs from Kyiv
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"Larissa is a renowned embroiderer, surviving in occupied Ukraine during World War II as a seamstress in her ruin of a workshop. Surrounded by enemies, she expresses her defiance by threading history into her garments. But at what cost? Mykhailo is a soldier on leave, returning to Ukraine from the front on Christmas Eve. As he travels through his country, he is confronted by the hardship the war has brought to his fellow countrymen. Will what he sees...
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Adolf Hitler and hundreds of high-ranking Nazis escaped to South America at the end of World War II. New evidence suggests that the Allied governments knew he was still alive and helped conceal the truth that he was living in Argentina with his wife, Evan Braun Hitler. Based on the best-selling book, Hitler in Argentina, by Harry Cooper, a renowned WWII expert and researcher who uncovered little known information on the escape of not only Adolf and...
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It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...
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It has been said that if responsibility for the Nazi camps can be laid at the feet of any one man, that man is Reinhard Heydrich. This book describes "Operation Anthropoid"--The Czech plan to assassinate Heydrich in 1942. Retribution for his violent death included several thousand executions and two villages being razed to the ground. Based on previously untouched archive material and interviews with surviving members of SOE and Czech military intelligence,...
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Bohaterami książki są potomkowie nazistowskich zbrodniarzy: Hermanna Gringa, Hansa Franka, Rudolfa Hoessa, Erwina Rommla i Clausa von Stauffenberga, których odszukała i namówiła do opowieści o swoich niesławnych przodkach młoda rosyjska dziennikarka Tatiana Freidensson. Ich historie przedstawiła również w cyklu filmów dokumentalnych prezentowanych w rosyjskiej telewizji. Autorka w każdej z tych osób widzi człowiek. Nie ocenia i próbuje...
500) Kukły
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"Jakub Kania przyjmuje zlecenie od niemieckiej dziennikarki. Jego zadaniem jest rozwiązanie zagadki związanej z pożarem, który miał miejsce krótko przed wybuchem wojny. Ogień doszczętnie strawił jedną z najwspanialszych rezydencji magnackich na Śląsku. Pozostały tylko zgliszcza. Sprawa ma związek z szokującym i makabrycznym odkryciem, jakiego dokonano w tamtejszym kościele. Trop prowadzi do Freudeskreis - istniejącej do dziś, elitarnej...
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