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1) The stranger
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Academy Award-nominated thriller follows Franz Kindler, a Nazi fugitive hiding out as a professor in a small Connecticut town. When his new wife begins to suspect his past, a detective sets out to uncover his identity.
2) The debt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission...
3) The reader
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
This is the gripping story of the American army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg. Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as an army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced danger and death on the battlefield, he tended to the battered bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. But at the close of the European theater, with Hitler defeated and scores...
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