Orem Library

A mysterious SS man offers an insightful glimpse of the life and career of Adolf Hitler, offering a unique perspective on his family, his childhood and adolescence, and the evolution of the man who became the personification of evil.

From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Tolands classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil effect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.

"In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler's administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler's public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals...

In Chaplin's first talking film, both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini are skewered on the sharp spears of ridicule.

Documentary on Hitler's desire to recreate Germany in the artistic style of classical Greece and Rome by banning all modern art and exterminating anyone who did not conform to his ideal image of patriotic Aryans.

The Third Reich : Hitler's Germany: The infamous Third Reich rose from the ashes of World War I, Hitler's answer to Germany's bitter defeat. His vow to restore a devastated people to greatness fanned the flames of hatred into a long and bloody war. The two deaths of Adolf Hitler: features the first-hand accounts of Hitler's secretary and valet, and interviews with the members of the Soviet medical team who autopsied Hitler's corpse and comparative...

It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time. He had put his papers in order -- and left a few notes specifically for Hitler's men to see. Two SS agents climbed the stairs and told the boyish-looking Bonhoeffer to come with them. He calmly said good-bye to his parents, put his Bible under his arm, and left. Upstairs there was proof, in his own handwriting, that this...

A drama that explores the psychology of Adolf Hitler.