Als Gerard Kremer in 1941 huismeester wordt van een kantoorpand aan de Westermarkt 2 (Huize Labor) in Amsterdam, om de hoek van wat we nu kennen als het Achterhuis, heeft hij nog geen idee welke rol hij zal gaan spelen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Door omstandigheden en omdat hij zijn ogen niet wil sluiten voor wat er gebeurt, belandt hij langzamerhand in het verzet. Als in de daaropvolgende periode de Wehrmacht een deel van het pand bezet houdt voor geheime activiteiten en Gerard daarbij nog besluit Joodse onderduikers te huisvesten, speelt hij gevaarlijk spel. Dat wordt hem bijna fataal.0Een waargebeurd verhaal over "De kruidenier van de Westermarkt", die door zijn unieke positie illegaal voedsel kon verstrekken aan de omgeving van het Achterhuis. 0Dit verhaal is gebaseerd op ware gebeurtenissen. Het werpt tevens een geheel nieuw licht op het verraad van het Achterhui.

From Keith Lowe, author of the criticall acclaimed Inferno comes an 'extraordinary, disturbing and powerful' (Daily Mail) new history, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II.The Second World War left Europe in chaos. Landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people killed. Across most of the continent, the institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport,local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and the European population hovered on the brink of starvation.In this groundbreaking study of the years that followed the war, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. He outlines the warped morality and the insatiable urge for vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict. Based on original documents, interviews and scholarly literature in eight different languages, Savage Continent is a window on the brief, chaotic period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. 'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling and plausible picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Excellent', Independent 'Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind', ScotsmanKeith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, and has often spoken on TV and radio, both in Britain and the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife and two children.

Verhandeling over de politieke rol van Lord Londonderry voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Het leven van een Vlaamse jongen in de jaren 1939-1947, waarin tevens een beeld wordt gegeven van het leven in Vlaanderen in een periode van oorlog, collaboratie en strijd om het overleven.

"The information has been methodically collected and divided... [giving] the reader a clear picture...The analysis of the Holocaust period is enriched by accounts from the human aspect, which further our understanding of the individual's action and their motives."--Prof. Dina Porat, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University"A comprehensive work on the third largest Jewish community in Poland during the Nazi occupation...The research constitutes an important contribution to the history of the Holocaust in general and to the history of Polish and Ukrainian Jewry of this period in particular."--Prof. Israel Gutman, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and former Head Historian, Yad Vashem

Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Colonne Henneicke, een groep van zo'n 50 Nederlandse jodenjagers.

Het koloniale en slavernijverleden van Nederland staat meer dan ooit in de schijnwerpers. Het is een geschiedenis die haaks staat op hoe Nederlanders de eigen natie graag zien: tolerant, humanitair, vooruitstrevend. Dat de werkelijkheid in het koloniale rijk dat Nederland opbouwde pijnlijk anders was wordt inmiddels breed erkend. Op die erkenning volgden recent excuses als eerste stap op weg naar 'herstel'. Dat nog vele stappen moeten volgen is zonneklaar. Wat is het Nederlandse koloniale en slavernijverleden nu precies? Waarom juist nu die herontdekking? Wat kunnen we verwachten van excuses en 'herstel'? Wie vraagt daar eigenlijk om? Is er een goede manier om rekenschap af te leggen over dit verleden en zijn 'we' hiermee op de goede weg? Op basis van zijn eigen betrokkenheid en publicaties in de afgelopen veertig jaar, maakt gerenommeerd historicus Gert Oostindie de balans op. Hij loodst ons vakkundig door de storm aan debatten die gevoerd worden over het koloniale en slavernijverleden van Nederland en verkent hoe we over onze schaduw heen kunnen stappen - op weg naar echt herstel.

Dit boek gaat over Dietrich Bonhoeffer, de Duitse theoloog die op 9 april 1945, op 39jarige leeftijd, werd vermoord wegens zijn aandeel in het verzet tegen Hitler.  

In dit boek staat het complete verhaal van Anne Frank. Op veel gestelde vragen wordt een antwoord gegeven: Waar kwam Anne Frank vandaan? Waarom moest ze onderduiken? Wat schreef ze in haar dagboek? In 'Het verhaal van Anne Frank' staan veel niet eerder gepubliceerde foto's van de familie Frank. Zij laten zien hoe Anne Frank leefde voordat zij moest onderduiken.

Historisch overzicht van de Holocaust, de volkerenmoord op het Europese jodendom in de periode 1941-1945.

Alle oorlogsfoto's van de Nederlandse oorlogs- en verzetsmusea, herinneringscentra en het Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie ( NIOD ) zijn bijeengebracht in één unieke databank die voor iedereen online beschikbaar is. Dit boek presenteert een gevarieerde selectie van aansprekende foto's en affiches uit Beeldbank WO 2.

Hoe Oorlogen Beginnen van A.J.P. Taylor onderzoekt de oorzaken van oorlogen, met een focus op de Eerste en Tweede Wereldoorlog. Taylor stelt dat oorlogen vaak beginnen door een combinatie van misverstanden, verkeerde inschattingen en ondoordachte beslissingen van politieke leiders, in plaats van door een vooraf bepaalde planning. Hij benadrukt dat veel oorlogen het gevolg zijn van onbewuste acties en de persoonlijke fouten van diplomaten en militaire leiders, die de situatie laten escaleren. Het boek biedt een analyse van de complexe interacties tussen landen, politieke ambities en de onvoorspelbaarheid van menselijke beslissingen in tijden van crisis.

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It identifies major policy-makers and explores major crises in the post-1945 period. The author also looks at how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the USA and Soviet Union. Material new to this edition includes: a rewritten post-1989 final chapter, the rewriting of the events in the 1950s, the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Reagan presidential years; and a stronger focus on Soviet/Russian developments

Tijdens de Duitse bezetting stonden de drukpersen niet stil. Integendeel: aan beide kanten waren artistiek en ideologisch gezien zeer goede en zeer foute ontwerpers uiterst productief. Sommige vormgevers, uitgevers en drukkers vochten voor het behoud van intellectuele en artistieke vrijheid, anderen voedden juist de op volle toeren draaiende Duitse propagandamachine. Ondanks de erbarmelijke omstandigheden was de vormgevingssector in deze periode springlevend. Tussen 1940 en 1945 werden zo'n 1000 clandestiene uitgaven geproduceerd, onder vele anderen door De Bezige Bij, H.N. Werkman en Helmut Salden. Tegelijkertijd verschenen talloze bruine boeken, brochures en posters. Voor het eerst brengt Alton W. Purvis in Goed fout de grafische vormgeving gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog, met beeldbepalende vormgevers als Fré Cohen, Frans Duwaer, A.A. Balkema, Willem Sandberg en Lou Manche, in haar volle omvang in beeld. Exhibition: Bijzondere Collecties, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April - September 2015).

Opstellen over Nederlandse schrijvers voor, tijdens en na het fascisme en de Duitse bezetting. Wat gebeurde er in de crisistijd die voorafging aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog? En hoe reageerden Nederlandse schrijvers op het Italiaans fascisme, de Duitse besetting en de daarop volgende zuivering van het culturele leven onder het Militair Gezag van na de Bevrijding?

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions of innocent people. From the bestselling historian Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History draws on original British and German sources, including recorded interviews, as well as contemporary diaries, memoirs and newspapers. Its narrative focuses on the day-to-day experiences of the men and women in both countries trapped in this disastrous chain of events and not, as is so often the case, the elite. Their voices, concerns and experiences lend a uniquely intimate flavour to this often surprising account, revealing a marked disconnect between government and people; few ordinary citizens in either Britain or Germany wanted war. Precisely for that reason, 1939: A People's History is also an interrogation of our capacity to go to war again. In today's Europe, an onset of uncertainty, a looming fear of radical populism and a revelatory schism are dangerously reminiscent of the perils of the autumn of 1938. It is both a vivid and richly peopled narrative of Europe's slide into the horrors of war, a war that nobody wanted, and, in many ways, a warning; an opportunity for us to learn from our history and a reminder that we must never take peace for granted.

Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for the Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter�s zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians � even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke�s reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.

This country`s most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy`s book is easily the best account of Europe`s descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element` Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will help him. The West must stop them. If they fail, the world will go to war.

Richard Overy`s dramatic account re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of civilization.

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.

In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.

Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.

Beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de laatste weken van Adolf Hitlers leven.

September 1938. In power more than five years, Hitler unilaterally dismantled the Treaty of Versailles, provision by provision, daring Britain and France to stand up to him. Earlier that year, he forced Austria into his Third Reich without firing a single shot. Now his sights were set on Czechoslovakia.

It was in this dangerous climate that the first anti-Nazi coup was born. The plot was spearheaded by Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Oster, and its members included top German military leaders, the Berlin police, local troop commanders, civil authorities, religious leaders, and a group of resisters whose names have been wiped from the pages of history. Their mission was to kill Hitler and to overthrow the Nazi regime.

Using British and German sources and previously unknown documents in the Military History Institute of the U.S. Army War College, historian Terry Parssinen has documented this conspiracy. Illustrated with photographs and maps, this highly provocative work is narrative history at its best.

Annotation. No historical event has exerted more influence on Americas postWorld War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munichnamely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger warAmerican presidents from Harry Truman through George W. Bush have relied on the Munich analogy not only to interpret perceived security threats but also to mobilize public opinion for military action. In The Specter of Munich, noted defense analyst Jeffrey Record takes an unconventional look at a disastrous chapter in Western diplomatic history. After identifying the complex considerations behind the Anglo-French appeasement of Hitler and the reasons for the policys failure, Record disputes the stock thesis that unchecked aggression always invites further aggression. He proceeds to identify other lessons of the 1930s more relevant to meeting todays U.S. foreign policy and security challenges. Among those lessons are the severe penalties that foreign policy miscalculation can incur, the constraints of public opinion in a modern democracy, and the virtue of consistency in threatening and using force. The Specter of Munichconcludes that though todays global political, military, and economic environment differs considerably from that of the 1930s, the United States is making some of the same strategic mistakes in its war on terrorism that the British and French made in their attempts to protect themselves against Nazi Germany. Not the least of these mistakes is the continued reliance on the specter of Adolf Hitler to interpret today's foreign security threats.

Verslag van het functioneren van de Duitse contraspionagedienst in Nederland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en van het gebruik dat zij daarbij maakten van de Nederlander Anton van der Waals.

Reconstructie van de moord in 1941 op de joodse inwoners van het Poolse dorpje Jedwabne door de Poolse inwoners van het dorp.

One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of the Second World War - Kristallnacht - not only for the Jewish population suddenly identified as a group to be destroyed, but also in terms of the international response it inspired and its larger implications. In Kristallnacht, Martin Gilbert seamlessly combines a moving account of the suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime with a sophisticated analysis of the gradual process, which made the horrors of the Third Reich possible. Broadening his canvas, Gilbert also powerfully depicts how the rest of the world failed Europe's increasingly desperate Jewish population: in the aftermath to Kristallnacht almost every country was asked to help; most would not do so, despite the transport of a staggering 10,000 German Jewish children to Britain.

Verslag van de zoektocht naar het vooroorlogse Poolse stadje Nasielsk, dat de grootvader van de Amerikaanse auteur tijdens een vakantie in 1938 op film vastlegde.

When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city a pearl to which he would give a proper setting. But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland.Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town. In this riveting narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik. Proconsuls like Joseph Buerckel, who hacked Austria into seven pieces, and Baldur von Schirach, who dreamed of making Vienna into a Nazi capital on the Danube--and failed miserably. More painfully, Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a rich Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200,000 Jews through murder, exile, and deportation. Vienna never regained the global role the city had once played. Today, Weyr concludes, only the monuments remain--beautiful but lifeless.This is not only the story of Nazi leaders but of how the Viennese themselves lived and died: those who embraced Hitler, those who resisted, and the many who merely, in the local phrase, "ran after the rabbit." The author draws on his own experiences as a child in Vienna under Nazi rule in 1938, and those of his parents and friends, plus extensive documentary research, to craft a vivid historical narrative that chillingly captures how a once-great city lost its soul under Hitler.