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Nonfiction Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin Ronen Steinke
Nonfiction Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany Andrew Maraniss
Nonfiction Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg
Nonfiction A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
Essay Max Wisen’s Tailor Shop Christoph Kreutzmüller is the author of Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity 1930 – 1945, a history of the German foreclosure of… Christoph Kreutzmüller March 11, 2016