{"quotes":[{"text":"On Saturday evening, August 5, 2017, FAPA announced and presented awards to the 2017 medalists at the FAPA President’s Book Awards Banquet that was held in the Hilton Hotel at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Captain Hank Backer’s book “Suppressed I Rise” is the true story of Adeline Perry and her daughters’ saga in Nazi Germany. Evading evil forces that almost proved to be overwhelming, it begins when she left South Africa, her native country, and accompanied her German husband to a strange, foreboding and foreign country. Adapted from Adeline Perry’s original notes and manuscripts and her daughters’ reflections, Captain Hank Bracker, originally from Germany, reveals how the young mother survived through bombings and dangerous situations with her two children. “Suppressed I Rise” was recognized with three awards at the FAPA Banquet: a Bronze Medal for “Nonfiction for Young Adults,” a Silver Medal for “Political/Current Events” and the coveted Gold Medal for “Biography.","author":"Captain Hank Bracker","tags":["awards","biography","nazi-germany","woman-s-strength"],"id":11419,"author_id":"Captain+Hank+Bracker"},{"text":"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly charismatic leader. They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment, for the next twelve tempestuous years.","author":"William L. Shirer","tags":["history","nazi-germany"],"id":51880,"author_id":"William+L.+Shirer"},{"text":"The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But this time the torture surpassed the bounds of the endurable. At the same time the thermometer hovered between 5 and 15 degrees below zero. From morning till night we scraped, shoveled, and pushed wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of snow to the brook. The work detail consisted of more than 1,000 clergymen, forced to keep moving by SS men and Capos who kicked us and beat us with truncheons.We had to make rounds with the wheelbarrows from the assembly square to the brook and back. Not a moment of rest was allowed, and much of the time we were forced to run.At one point I tripped over my barrow and fell, and it took me a while to get up again. An SS man dashed over and ordered me to turn with the full load. He ran beside me, beating me constantly with a leather strap. When I got to the brook I was not allowed to dump out the heavy snow, but had to make a second complete round with it instead.When the guard finally went off and I tried to let go of the wheelbarrow, I found that one of my hands was frozen fast to it. I had to blow on it with warm breath to get it free.","author":"Jean Bernard","tags":["catholicism","catholics","concentration-camps","good-friday","nazi-germany","nazis","nazism","priest","priesthood","priests","ss","suffering","torture"],"id":77280,"author_id":"Jean+Bernard"},{"text":"I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.","author":"Ralph Webster","tags":["germany","history","hitler-s-germany","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-literature","holocaust-survivors","jewish-identity","memoir","nazi-germany"],"id":152488,"author_id":"Ralph+Webster"},{"text":"It was a glorious experience for the children to travel by rail and the panoramic views of Africa through the big glass window in the rear of the last car of the Blue Train, were beyond description. It was just as you would expect it to be, as described in a vintage National Geographic magazine, with springbok and other wild animals abounding. The distance is approximately the same as from New York City to Chicago and took an overnight. Adeline and Lucia talked late into the night as the children tried to hear what was being said. There was a lot of catching up to do, but it had been a long and exhausting day and the next thing they all knew, it was the following morning and the train was approaching Cape Town or Kaapstad in Afrikaans, affectionately known as the “Tavern of the Seas.","author":"Captain Hank Bracker","tags":["history","nazi-germany","woman-s-strength","world-war-ii"],"id":158164,"author_id":"Captain+Hank+Bracker"},{"text":"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["1930","1930-s","1930s","antihero","antiheroes","antiheroine","antiheros","exile","exiled","exiles","exilio","feminism","feminist","feminist-memoir","historical","historical-perspective","history","history-of-religion","history-of-the-united-states","history-repeating-itself","humanity","jew","jewish","jewish-diaspora","jewish-identity","jewish-question","jews","nazi","nazi-german-1945","nazi-germany","nazis","nazism","past","politics","social","society","woman","woman","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-charm","woman-s-secrets","woman-s-strength","woman-to-woman","womanhood","womanism","women","women-and-men","women-empowerment","women","women-s-fiction","women-s-inspirational","women-s-rights","women-s-strength","women-writers","womens-rights"],"id":183144,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.From a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education.","author":"William L. Shirer","tags":["education","might-makes-right","nazi-germany"],"id":230861,"author_id":"William+L.+Shirer"},{"text":"Even the poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfanger VE301, a mass-produced radio stamped with an eagle and a swastika, incapable of shortwave, marked only for German frequencies.Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if toward the lips of God.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["historical-fiction","history","nazi-germany"],"id":231065,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"There is a gaping hole in the history of the Holocaust. Between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Mengele there was a hierarchy of scientists whom were responsible for writing the infamous racial legislation of the Third Reich. These scientists, doctors, and legislators enjoyed prestigious positions in the various institutions within Hitler's Germany. To be more precise, many of the ghastly experiments credited to Mengele were ordered by this group of high-ranking scientists and doctors. Mengele was following their orders, yet many of these German doctors and scientists were set free after being captured by the Allies.  Previously unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and conveniently forgotten publications reveal professional and political relationships as well as shared scientific convictions between high-profile American Progressives, British Fabian Socialists, and their German counterparts. The mounting evidence points to the long-standing designs and machinations of 'scientific racism', a still poorly understood aspect of history.  This book documents the hundred year trajectory of the history of 'scientific racism' from its initial intentions to create 'a race of masters' to the Holocaust, which resulted from Hitler's conviction to create a 'master race'. These scientific prejudices and political dogmas are as relevant today as they were leading up to WWII. A thorough understanding of the origins of this movement is in order.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["adolf-hitler","darwin","darwinism","eugenic-legislation","eugenicist","eugenics","hitler","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-survivors","joseph-mengele","master-race","nazi","nazi-germany","nazism","race-hygiene","race-of-masters","racism","scientific-racism","third-reich","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":237861,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression.","author":"Erik Larson","tags":["america","history","jews-and-judaism-in-europe","nazi-germany"],"id":273448,"author_id":"Erik+Larson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}