Tuesday, March 24, 2009

WWII in Books and Movies

Movies
Valkyrie – a recent movie about an attempted coup by high ranking German officers planning to kill Hitler and take control of Nazi Germany. It is set near the end of WWII.

The Sound of Music – a musical following the plight of a family living in Austria in 1938

Books
The Sunflower – a two part story, in which the author Simon Wiesenthal tells his experience of the concentration camps. The second part is a collection of replies from various people answering the dilemma presented when a dying Nazi asked Simon for forgiveness.

A Separate Peace – a story about two high school boys during the early years of WWII.

Maus I - a graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman on his father's experience of the Holocaust.
And now, I have also read Maus II

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