検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

It is 1940 and Britain is fighting alone against the Germans. With the RAF fighting above the skies of England, it is down to the Commandos to go back to France and cause as much trouble to the Germans as possible. When the Italians join in alongside the Germans, it seems that Britain is about to sink beneath a sea of Fascists.

East London, 1940. At the outbreak of war, hopeless romantic Prue Carmichael and her sister must leave their rural parish behind when their father is posted to a church in Stepney. To Prue, the blitz-ravaged streets of London seem an unlikely place for love to bloom – until a chance encounter throws rakish engineer Jack Quinn into her path. But as their connection deepens, his troubled past begins to emerge, and Prue realises Jack has secrets to hide.

Dezember 1948: Wer war Minna Schaade? Als Kriminalkommissar Heinrich Klemmer die grausam zugerichtete Leiche der Medizinerin im Berliner Tiergarten zum ersten Mal erblickt, erkennt er sofort: Ein gewöhnlicher Raubmord war das nicht. Bei seinen Ermittlungen in den Ruinen der Stadt gerät der junge Westpolizist schon bald in ein Netz aus Intrigen – und ins Visier des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes. Heinrichs Vorstöße werden immer leichtsinniger, er ermittelt im Ostsektor und damit auf verbotenem Terrain.

Calliope Adham—young, strong-willed, and recently widowed—is schoolmistress in the village of Molyvos when Hitler's army invades Greece in 1941. Well-read and linguistically gifted, she is recruited by the Germans to act as their liaison officer. It is the beginning of a personal and national saga that will last for several decades. Calliope's wartime duties bring her into close contact with Lieutenant Lorenz Umbreit, the Wehrmacht commander. The schoolmistress is an active member of the Greek Resistance, yet her friendship with the German blossoms against all odds.

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise—until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as Japanese warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history.

There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller’s mother, Rain, didn’t live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix’s life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain’s unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation.

1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother's belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack's mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she came to Cork alone as a Jewish refugee from Vienna. She died when Jack was young, and he never learned of his father's identity. So, who wrote these love letters to Rebekah and why did she keep newspaper clippings about a famous Austrian footballer player? Who was 'The Paper Man'?

It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend, Elena, and dodging her overbearing father. On her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds—a source of unexpected joy amid the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation.

It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft is a shy nineteen-year-old law student living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands with ambitious goals for her future. But dreams die in wartime, and Hannie’s closest friends are no longer safe as fascism insidiously rises in her country. Hiding them is not enough. Hannie may be young but she can’t stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip. Driven by love and moral outrage, Hannie soon becomes an armed member of the Dutch Resistance movement.

In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone—a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own.

Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. Three beloved authors share stories of the Alnwick family through the generations, revealing how love and war can change a place—but only its people can unshackle it from the misdeeds of the past.

März 1944. Die deutsche Wehrmacht besetzt Ungarn. Als Jude wird der gerade mal 20-jährige Carl Laszlo mit seiner Familie aus seiner Heimatstadt Pécs nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert. Dort werden 45 seiner Familienmitglieder sofort bei ihrer Ankunft in den Gaskammern ermordet. Doch Auschwitz ist erst der Anfang. Bis zu seiner Befreiung durch heranrückende sowjetische Truppen im Frühjahr 1945 durchlebt Laszlo die Hölle der nationalsozialistischen KZ-Vernichtungsmaschinerie in vier weiteren Lagern: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf und Theresienstadt.

"Aquella vida que traté de ocultar hoy resuena como un murmullo en mi interior". Un relato que combina un secreto oculto, un amor imposible y un periplo trágico entre guerras. En el Palamós (Girona) de 1995, Marina se reencuentra sesenta años después con un amor de adolescencia, Hans, un nazi que luchó en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una devastadora revelación pone a prueba el valor de los protagonistas en el momento más decisivo de sus vidas. Esta es una historia que desafía el poder de la memoria y la fuerza de los sentimientos.

Das Leuchten über der Heide. 1943: In den Wirren des Krieges wächst die Bäuerin Alma über sich hinaus. Als ihr Bruder Franz eingezogen wird, führt sie den Hof allein weiter - unterstützt von dem französischen Kriegsgefangenen Robert. Trotz aller Widerstände verlieben sich die beiden ineinander. Alma wird schwanger und damit im Dorf noch mehr zur Außenseiterin. Als der Krieg vorbei ist, kehrt Robert nach Frankreich zurück. Alma führt ihren Hof auch allein durch die Nachkriegszeit - bis ihr Bruder heimkehrt und sie wieder in den Hintergrund drängt. Doch damit will sie sich nicht mehr abfinden.

Arthur Norris colpisce immediatamente l'alter ego di Christopher Isherwood, il giovane William Bradshaw, che lo incontra nello scompartimento di un treno diretto in Germania. Col tempo Norris si rivelerà un avventuriero incline al misfatto e allo sperpero, un simpatizzante comunista che folleggia disinvolto nel basso ventre della Berlino dei primi anni Trenta. In pratica l'amico perfetto per William, approdato a Berlino per vivere una vacanza prolungata, lontana dalle costrizioni della famiglia. Finché, nell'inverno del 1933, il gioco inizierà a farsi troppo serio...

December 1940. Down Street underground station, in the heart of London's Mayfair, is now a secret retreat for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet from the relentless air raids overhead. In this supposedly secure location, the body of a woman is found, stabbed in the heart. The victim, fortune-teller Lady Za Za, did not see this one coming. Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called to investigate but whispers of treason and corruption succeed in muddying the waters of the case.

In einer Sommernacht des Jahres 1941 beobachtet die 18-jährige Sofieke, wie ein Fallschirmagent in den besetzten Niederlanden landet. Der Student Gerhard soll für die Engländer spionieren. Er wird jedoch sofort festgenommen. Gerhard entgeht der Hinrichtung nur, indem er sich zum Schein bereiterklärt, als Doppelagent für die deutsche Spionageabwehr zu arbeiten. Arthur Seyß-Inquart, der mächtigste Nazi in den Niederlanden, ist Gerhards Nennonkel. Seine fröhlich-naive Tochter Dorli zeigt ihm den Palast, in dem sie jetzt wohnt.

Le 23 janvier 1951, le navire-hôpital Jutlandia quitte le port de Copenhague. Molly Dahl, une jeune infirmière engagée, embarque de justesse à bord du bateau. Durant la période de libération du Danemark, Molly a accumulé une grande expérience sur le terrain en s’occupant de patients mourants ou gravement blessés par balles. Cependant, Molly porte dorénavant un bagage rempli d’un grand nombre d’expériences personnelles terribles.

Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor, loved ones in Stalin's purges, and war looms once more on the horizon. These daughters of Ukraine will face devastation and loss as they fight to survive and protect the ones they love.

Dashing and well-connected, Lanny Budd has earned the trust of the Nazi high command. To Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, the American art dealer is a “true believer” committed to their Fascist cause. But Lanny is actually a secret agent serving as President Franklin Roosevelt’s eyes and ears in Germany. When he learns of the Führer’s plans for conquest, Lanny’s dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other reluctant European leaders fall on deaf ears.