any recommendations of books i can read about.....?

Question

I'm realy into reading true stories about the experiences of people living through the nazi era of world war 2.... can you make any recomendations?

Answer 1

I'd recommend the prison diaries of Albert Speer. Speer was one of Hitler's right hand men who got put in prison with a few other Nazis (those who weren't executed) after the war, and the diary charts the years of his imprisonment: 1946-1966. He talks a lot about his relationship with Hitler and the hows and whys of how he got involved with the regime.

Speer also wrote a detailed autobiography called "Inside the Third Reich" which is also very interesting but less personal and spontaneous than the diaries (and less honest, some have claimed).

Anyway, he's just about the only high-ranking Nazi who wrote about his experiences (and he's a good writer too, which helps) so definitely worth a look if you're interested in this kind of thing.

Answer 2

Diary of a Young Girl - Ann Frank

Diary of a Man in Despair - Reck-Malleczewen. A German
aristocrat keeps a secret diary of his contempt for the Nazis.

Diary of Victor Klemperer - a Jew who survived in Berlin because the Germans weren't yet taking Jews married to Germans.

Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning, an examination of a squad of ordinary policemen who became a death squad.

Defying Hitler - S Haffner. A memoir by a man who eventually fled to England to get away from the Nazis.

Answer 3

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Diary of Anne Frank

Answer 4

Anne Franks Diary, Eva Brauns Diary (Hitlers Lover and Secretary), the true Protocol of the nuernberg trials, schindlers diary. if all else fails just go to amazon or any huge bookstore, library, they usually have a huge variety of books from People who suffered through the Nazi regime. And even from People who worked for the regime.

Answer 5

according to probability a Miracle - Brian Strause consume Cake - Jeanne Ray Whispers and Lies - excitement Fielding A thought of Relativity - Jacquelyn Mitchard the myth of You and Me - Leah Stewart Veil of Roses - Laura Fitzgerald The twelve months of Fog - Michelle Richmond Midwives - Chris Bohjalian Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret - Judy Blume The Weir - Conor McPherson Grave Suprise - Charlaine Harris What Are You finding at? : An Anthology of fat Fiction - Ira Sukrungruang the girl With the Silver Eyes - Willo Davis Roberts Fall guy: A Rachel Alexander secret - Carol Lea Benjamin interior the midst of Wolves - Keith Remer A distinctly placed source - Michelle Dally Grief lady - Erin Vincent The Darwin Awards next Evolution - Wendy Northcutt Prince of comments: the numerous Worlds of Neil Gaiman - Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, Stephen R.

Answer 6

Anne Frank's Diary

Answer 7

Elie Wiesel's "Night," a Holocaust classic.

Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning," a psychiatrist victim's concentration camp experience that led to Logotherapy, a psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live.

Answer 8

I Have Lived A thousand years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
In my hands by Irene Gut Opdyke
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

And my website with even more suggestions:

http://bl-books.tripod.com/id124.html

Answer 9

Yes, please look up books on the 2ND world war hero "Desmond T. Doss" who was a conscientious objector (and medic) who pulled his platune to safety while under open fire. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Which is one of the highest honors bestowed by government to the military

Answer 10

Read Colin Powell's book called My American Journey