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"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...
2) Julia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Born to great wealth, the fiercely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting facism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, a friend of Julia's is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
340 p.
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"Gisela must hold on;to hope and love despite all odds in the midst of a war-torn country.Gisela Cramer is an American living in eastern;Germany with her cousin Ella Reinhardt. When the Red Army invades, they must leave their home to escape to safety in Berlin.However, Ella is a nurse and refuses to leave, sending her young daughters with Gisela;During their journey, Gisela meets Mitch Edwards, an escaped British POW. She pretends she is his wife...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xiii, 491 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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A biography based on the diary of a young Jewish woman on the run from the Gestapo in Nazi Germany describes how she went underground after war broke out and was aided by a remarkable resistance organization.
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Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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ix, 410 pages ; 20 cm.
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"War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory. One night, when he braves a storm to complete an ill-fated mission, Rumi's fiancé is lost to the dangerous waters. Broken-hearted, she withdraws from the clandestine group, vowing never to let her loved ones put themselves in the line of fire again. But months later,...
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Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany--in the summer of 1939--will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything. Married to SS officer Gerhardt Schlick, Kristine sees the dark tides turning and fears her husband views their daughter, Amelie, deaf since birth, as a blight on his Aryan bloodline. Now hunted by the...
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IFC Films
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How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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vii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"The riveting and tension-filled story of a small group of conspirators who plotted relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. Behind the front lines of World War II, a clandestine war within a war was being waged in Nazi Germany. As the "Final Solution" unfolded and fascism swept across Europe, a network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and a smattering of civilians were doing everything in their power to...
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In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and hebegins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
11) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
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"Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
13) Flowers in the gutter: the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the Americanleader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
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"Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage--in name only--to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too--atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken...
17) 13 minutes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region. A story of a man who nearly changed the world.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket back.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
375 pages
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"Church of Spies documents this cloak and dagger intrigue in shocking detail. Gun-toting Jesuits stole blueprints to Hitler?s homes. A Catholic book publisher flew a sports plane over the Alps with secrets filched from the head of Hitler?s bodyguard. The keeper of the Vatican crypt ran a spy ring that betrayed German war plans and wounded Hitler in a briefcase bombing. The plotters made history in ways they hardly expected. They inspired European...
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Publisher
Editorial Bamb�u
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II"--Provided by publisher.
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