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Nazi Berlin: 1933–1945
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The capital during Hitler's rise and WWII — a setting of dark historical dramas, resistance tales, and the regime's collapse. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Berlin and 1933–1945 already set.
Open Nazi-Era Berlin on the map10 famous stories set in Nazi Berlin
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Browse 46 books, 34 movies and 6 games set in Berlin.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In 1938 an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it and the missing man is his…
Downfall
In April of 1945 Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin capital of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler…
All the Light We Cannot See
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy…
Race
Based on the story of Jesse Owens the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision…
Conspiracy
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich this group of…
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the…
Ace of Aces
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young…
Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This…
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis her father Arthur Kemper a well-known Jewish journalist has to flee to Zurich. His family Anna her…
The Last Train
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
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