Lit. opg.: p. 431-434. 438 p. : Ill. ; 21 cm.

In Warhogs, Stuart D. Brandes masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while others sacrifice their lives to protect the nation? Drawing upon a wealth of manuscript sources, newspapers, contemporary periodicals, government reports, and other ...

The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells (#1091) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

Consists of a mixed provenance collection of documentation donated to Fundacion IWO in Buenos Aires, Argentina by survivors starting in the immediate post-war years until the 1970s. Includes documents, photographs, manuscripts and other records.

"During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 'the arsenal of democracy.' Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington ...

The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates. At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel--the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF--continue to play key roles in the global market. ...

"Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"--A perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn't Say Its Name investigates the most recent phase of this conflict, asking why the peace deal of 2003--accompanied ...

A novel set in England at the approach of World War II in which Basil Seal sees an apportunity for profit. [His friend Ambrose Silk is a homosexual].

Describes the deportation of Jews from all the countries under German occupation or influence, in particular the role of the SS-men - mainly Austrians - of Eichmann's Section IV B 4. Most of them began their careers with Eichmann in the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Vienna, where their success, aided by the antisemitism of the populace, brought them the reputation of experts. Subsequently ...

Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964
 
 The Jewish non-profit organization, Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Help to the Child), was established after the war with the aim of taking care of Jewish foster children; the children were hurled into a sensitive situation concerning their Judaism, being that many of them had lived ...

Roy Parker was born Romano Nunzio Voltango Pellegrino on March 9, 1938. His maternal great-grandparents, Abraham Isaak Abraham (known as “Issak) and Olga Freudenthal Abraham, were in the fur business prior to World War I. Members of the Abraham family emigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century and started a fur export/import business with family remaining in Germany. During World ...

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with orders to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, he worked as a double agent, a British ...

The most appalling crime in human affairs is certainly genocide. But perhaps even more shocking is the fact that those who organize and even those who commit mass murder are rarely punished for what they have done. Most, in fact, profit from their crimes. The Splendid Blond Beast is the latest investigation into this seamiest side of the twentieth century, from the author of the award-winning Blowback, ...

USHMM RG-31.017M

Parce qu'elle repose sur l'engagement et se construit sur le secret, la Résistance reste à la fois un mystère et un enjeu de polémiques partisanes. Amorcée dès juin 1940, elle parvint à s'unir à l'ombre de la croix de Lorraine, grâce aux patients efforts de Jean Moulin, tout en affirmant son indiscutable pluralisme. Elle resta néanmoins de bout en bout minoritaire, se préoccupa peu du sort ...

M.52.DARO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Rivne Region
 
 History of the Archives
 
 The archives was established in March 1940 as the historical archives of the region, and as of 1941 it was called the State Archives of the Rovno Region. The material for the archives was collected gradually. At the start, the archives received documents from local institutions and ...

This collection contains organizational records, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. Files are arranged at the folder level. The documents relate to the arrival of survivor artists, correspondence with artists, writers and other personalities in the aftermath of World War II, cultural activities and publishing projects of survivors.

The collection contains correspondence with the Commission of Foreign Currency of the National Polish Bank, as well as the files of the property matters, includes personal documents of Jews emigrated from Poland to Israel.

The Sigtuna Foundation is a private non-profit foundation, established in 1915 in Sweden. The organization is under the leadership of the Executive Director who servers under the board of nine people. The Foundation offers a neutral ground to people of different backgrounds, traditions and/or viewpoints who wish to meet, interact and learn from one another in an atmosphere of mutual respect. After ...

This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader ...

This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader ...

Amschel Rothschild (Erich Ponto) in Frankfurt and his sons Nathan (Karl Kuhlmann) in London and James (Albert Lippert) in Paris are part of an international network of Jewish bankers lending money to powerful people in their respective countries at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Due to their international contacts and ruthless materialistic attitude, the Rothschilds earn money every time ...