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Foundational pasts Foundational pasts Alon Confino "This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It criticall… OL15936448W
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler Peter Longerich Heinrich Himmler, an unremarkable looking man, was Hitler's top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longerich asks, h… OL1739232W
The Third Reich at war The Third Reich at war Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a "people's community to serve a war of c… OL1745834W
My father's keeper My father's keeper Norbert Lebert,Stephan Lebert In 1959 German journalist Norbert Lebert interviewed children of prominent Nazis: Hess, Bormann, Goring, Himmler, Baldur von Schirach (Hitler Youth creator) & Hans Frank (governor of Poland). Not kno… OL18173773W
Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution Ian Kershaw The writings are arranged in three sections—Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography—and Kershaw provides an introduction … OL1924189W
Hitler, 1889-1936 Hitler, 1889-1936 Ian Kershaw Ian Kershaw's HITLER allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese… OL1924194W
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Catherine Epstein "Provides an up-to-date historical synthesis based on the latest research in the field"-- OL20002305W
The German War The German War Nicholas Stargardt "Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who li… OL20010345W
Hitler's compromises Hitler's compromises Nathan Stoltzfus History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Inte… OL20031811W
The plots against Hitler The plots against Hitler Danny Orbach "A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler"-- OL20040300W
Fighting Hitler's jets Fighting Hitler's jets Robert F. Dorr "Fighting Hitler's Jets brings together in a single, character-driven narrative two groups of men at war: on one side, American fighter pilots and others who battled the secret "wonder weapons" with … OL23307687W
Inside the Third Reich Inside the Third Reich Speer Inside the Third Reich is more than a superlative portrait of Adolf Hitler and a remarkable contribution to the annals of World War II. The eminent historian Golo Mann has said that this book "will b… OL265917W
The 12-year Reich The 12-year Reich Richard Grunberger Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer. In this brilliant history of the Hitler era, Richard Grunberger reveals what life was like for an average citizen. The persuasive influence of the Nazi regime reached… OL2931838W
The Nazi Doctors The Nazi Doctors Robert Jay Lifton **The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide** was written by Robert Jay Lifton and published in 1986, analyzing the role of German doctors in carrying out a genocide. In the wo… OL31311W
The Healing Wound The Healing Wound Gitta Sereny "In this memoir spanning more than fifty years, Gitta Sereny confronts Germany's troubled past, investigating the dark moments in the country's history as well as chronicling how her life has been re… OL3484822W
The Rape of Europa The Rape of Europa Lynn H. Nicholas A discussion on the theft and collection of great European art in World War 2. OL3914147W
Berlin diary Berlin diary William L. Shirer Essential Historic Document. This is a most important historic document as it is the only known diary written by a professional journalist while on assignment in nazi Germany from 1933 to 1941. Pri… OL47182W
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler Robert Gellately A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, a… OL4790513W
Crossing the Rhine Crossing the Rhine Lloyd Clark A British military historian offers an in-depth account of two critical offensives led by Allied troops against the Nazi power base on the Rhine, examining the strategies, military leaders, and campa… OL5934917W
My father's keeper My father's keeper Norbert Lebert "In 1959 the German journalist Norbert Lebert conducted extensive interviews with the sons and daughters of prominent Nazis: Hess, Bormann, Goring, and Himmler; Baldur von Schirach, creator of the Hi… OL6216931W
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