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Global II: Holocaust Research: Secondary Sources

Example Notes from Background Research

Leni Riefenstahl was a controversial film director who produced the Nazi propaganda films The Triumph of the Will (1935) of the 1934 Nuremberg rally.

Anti-Nazi Movement, July 20, 1944, Operation Valkyrie, Hassel, Ulrich von, Kreisau Circle

Books in the library

There are countless books set aside for this project on a Reserve cart in the Library.

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Spence School Library: Physical Books

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The books in the Spence School library are organized according to the Dewey Decimal System (books with similar subjects are group together). When looking for a book make sure you write down the call # from the online catalog. The call # corresponds to the physical location. If you need help finding a book please see Ms. Kane or Ms. Crow!

 

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Search Terms

Below is a small selection of catalog subject searches that leads to books and other materials on Nazi Germany.

Nazi Germany

  • Antisemitism -- Germany
  • Germany -- Politics and government
  • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
  • Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
  • National socialism

Resistance

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
  • Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Jews -- Netherlands
  • Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising of 1943

Remembrance, Museums, and Memorials

  • Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Exhibitions

Postwar Human Rights and Genocide Prevention

  • Germany--Ethnic relations
  • War criminals -- Germany
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
  • Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946

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