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Courage in the face of fascism: the warnings of history

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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück  by Lynne Olsen is an extraordinary telling of a little-told Nazi horror story, barely hinted at by the subtitle, “How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp.”  This goes beyond any book you’ve read or movie you have seen. The S.S.-run Ravensbruck hard labor camp …

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More winter reading – pt. 2, non-fiction books

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Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown is the story of Japanese American patriots fighting for the U.S. in World War II while their parents and siblings were incarcerated in concentration (euphemistically termed relocation) camps in the West and South. In this intensely moving and deeply researched narrative, Brown lays out in grueling detail the …

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