BOOKS THAT HAVE GONE INTO THE PREPARATION OF

Fräulein: Struggle for Identity

NON-FICTION

Albright, Madeleine. Fascism: A Warning.

Amery, Jean. At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities.

Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City.

Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Applebaum, Anne. Iron Curtain.

Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.

Baldwin, Neil. Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate.

Bannister, Nonna. The Secret Holocaust Diaries.

Bardach, Janusz & Gleeson, Kathleen. Man is Wolf to Man.

Bardach, Janusz & Gleeson, Kathleen. Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag.

Berdyaev, Nicolas. The Destiny of Man.

Borkin, Joseph. The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben.

Browning, Christopher. Remembering Survival. Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp.

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.

Brysac, Shareen Blair. Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra.

Buber-Neumann, Margarete. Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler.

Buergenthal, Thomas. A Lucky Child.

Butler, Robert. An Illustrated History of the Gestapo.

Cohn, Marthe. Behind Enemy Lines.

Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror.

Crasnianski, Tania. Children of Nazis.

De Gaulle, Anthonioz. Genevieve: The Dawn of Hope.

Djilas, Milovan. Conversations with Stalin.

Figes, Orlando. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930’s.

Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.

Gessen, Masha. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.

Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna. Journey Into the Whirlwind.

Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews.

Gregor, Neil. Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich.

Gross, Leonard. The Last Jews in Berlin.

Gutman, Yisrael & Berenbaum, Michael (eds). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.

Haffner, Sebastian. Defying Hitler.

Harran, Marilyn J. & Roth, John (eds). The Holocaust Chronicle.

Hassan, Stephen. The Cult of Trump.

Hedges, Chris. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.

Helms, Sarah. Ravensbrück.

Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer.

Hoffman, Peter. The History of the German Resistance: 1933- 1945.

Ingrao, Christian. The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters.

Isaacson, Judith Magyar. Seed of Sarah.

Johnson, Eric & Reuband, Karl-Heinz. What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany. On Oral History.

Kasparov, Garry. Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.

Kerrigan, Michael. Hitler: The Man behind the Monster.

Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi & Riess, Volker. The Good Old Days: The Holocaust As Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders.

Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner In Chief.

Korner-Kalman, Anneliese. Across the Street From Adolf Hitler: A Memoir.

Larson, Erik. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.

Levi, Primo. If This is a Man.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz.

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can’t Happen Here.

Lichtblau, Eric. The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Man.

Lifton, Robert. The Nazi Doctors.

Lowe, Keith. Savage Continent. (I also had personal communication with him via email.)

Mahlendorf, Ursula. The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood.

Maier-Katkin, Daniel. Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger. Friendship and Forgiveness.

Marcuse, Herbert. One Dimensional Man.

Markovna, Nina. Nina’s Journey: A Memoir of Stalin’s Russia and the Second World War.

Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich. The Communist Manifesto.

Moore, Barrington. Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them.

Moorhouse, Roger. Berlin at War.

Morrison, Jack. Ravensbruck: Everyday Life in a Woman's Concentration Camp 1939 to 1945.

Morton, Frederic. The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait.

Murphey, Cullen. God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.

Morsch, Gunter & Ley, Astrid. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp: Events and Developments. 1936 to 1945.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. Moral Man and Immoral Society.

Ofer, Dalia & Weitzman, Lenore. Women in the Holocaust.

Orwell, George. 1984.

Perechodnik, Calel. Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman.

Reese, Willy Peter. A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941 to 1944.

Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism.

Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.

Satter, David. It Was a Longtime Ago, and It Never Happened.

Schneider Hilton, Ella. Displaced Persons: A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, and America.

Silver, Daniel B. Refugee in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis.

Simon, Marie Jalowicz. Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival In the Heart of Nazi Germany.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. The Gulag Archipelago.

Sorel, Georges. Reflections on Violence.

Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy (including personal communication)

Szpilman, Wladyslaw. The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw. 1939-1945.

Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of the Family and Culture in Crisis.

Vuillard, Eric. The Order of the Day.

Von Schuschnigg, Kurt & Von Schuschnigg, Janet. When Hitler Took Austria: A Memoir of Heroic Faith by the Chancellor’s Son.

Wachsmann, Nikolaus. KL. A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps.

Wiesel, Elie. Night.

Wyder, Peter. Stella.

Zeller, Guillaume. The Priest Barracks: Dachau, 1938- 1945.

HISTORICAL FICTION

Benioff, David. The 25th Hour.

Benioff, David. City of Thieves.

Chukovskaya, Lydia. Sofia Petrovna.

Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Possessed.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.

Dunmore, Helen. The Siege.

Fallada, Hans. Little Man, What Now?

Fallada, Hans. The Drinker.

Fallada, Hans. Every Man Dies Alone.

Fallada, Hans. Wolf Among Wolves.

Goldberg, Paul. The Yid. (I also had personal communication with him via email.)

Hannan, Kristin. The Nightingale.

Harris, Robert. Munich.

Harris, Robert. Fatherland.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Jenoff, Pam. The Things We Cherished.

Kelly, Martha Hall. Lilac Girls.

Kerr, Philip. The Lady From Zagreb.

Kerr, Philip. Hitler’s Peace.

Kerr, Philip. A Man Without Breath.

Kerr, Philip. March Violets.

Koestler, Arthur. Darkness At Noon.

Konar, Affinity. Mischling.

Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

McBride, James. The Good Lord Bird.

McBride, James. Song Yet Sung.

Morris, Margarita. Goodbye to Budapest.

Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise.

Rosenberg, Joel C. The Auschwitz Escape.

Roth, Philip. Indignation.

Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America.

Roth, Philip. Portnoy’s Complaint.

Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader.

Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray.

Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44.

Smith, Martin. Gorky Park.

Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice.

Tertz, Abram (Andrei Sinyavsky). Goodnight!

INTERVIEW

Personal interview with Charles Rotmil, holocaust survivor originally from Strasbourg, France, now residing in southern Maine.

Personal interview with Erich Reitenbach on early childhood in a Displaced Persons lager.