HIST2134. The Third Reich through Documents, 1933-1945 Readings’ List References GUTMAN, I. (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1990. LAQUEUR, W., The Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2001. ROZETT, R. and S. Spector (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 2000 SNYDER, L.L., Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, 1998. TAYLOR, J. and W. Shaw, Dictionary of the Third Reich, 1997. Readings containing primary sources ADAMTHWAITE, A., The Making of the Second World War, 1979 BAYNES, N. H. (ed.), The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-1929, 2 vols., 1942 BONHOEFFER, D., No Rusty Swords: Letters, Lectures and Notes, 1928-1936 (= Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Vol. 1), 1965 CHAMBERLAIN, N., In Search of Peace, 1939 DAWIDOWICZ, L.S. (ed.), A Holocaust Reader, 1976 DEGRAS, J. T. (ed.), Soviet Documents on Foreign Policy, 1917-1941, 1953 DELZELL, C. F., Mediterranean Fascism, 1919-1945, 1970 DOBROAZYCKI (ed.), The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, 1984 DOCUMENTS on British Foreign Policy, 1919-39 DOCUMENTS on German Foreign Policy, 1918-45 DOMARUS, M. (ed.), Hitler: Speeches and proclamations: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship, 4 vols. EHRENBURG, I. and V. Grossman (eds.), The Black Book, 1981 FOREIGN Relations of the United States: 1900, etc. (FRUS) GERMANY and the Second World War. Ed. by Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, 1990-. GRAHAM, M.W., New Governments of Central Europe, 1924. GRIFFIN, R. (ed.), Fascism, 1995 HAFFNER, S., Defying Hitler: A Memoir, 2002 HILBERG, R. (ed.), Documents of Destruction: Germany and Jewry, 1933-1945, 1971 HILBERG, R. (ed.), The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow, 1979 HITLER, A., Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1939. HOESS, R., Commandant in Auschwitz, 1959 JUNGE, T., Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary, 2004 KAES, A., M. Jay, and E. Dimendberg (ed.), The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, 1994. KERTESZ, G.A., Documents in the Political History of the European Continent, 1815-1939, 1968 KIRK, T., The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany, 1995 (includes Weimar Republic and Rise of Nazism) 8 KLEE, E. et al., The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders, 1991 LANGER, H. J., The History of the Holocaust: A Chronology of Quotations, 1997 LATTIMER, J. K., Hitler and the Nazi Leaders – A Unique Insight into Evil, 1999 LAVER, J., Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, 1991 LENGYEL, O., Five Chimneys, 1995 LEVI, P., Surviving in Auschwitz, 1958 LIVINGSTONE, A., The Peace Ballot: The Official History, 1935. LOCHNER, L.P. (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943, 1948. MANZ, B., A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich, 2000. METELMANN, H., A Hitler Youth: Growing up in Germany in the 1930s, 1997. MEYER, W., Tomorrow will be better: Surviving Nazi Germany, 1999. MILLER LANE, B. and L.J. Rupp (eds.), Nazi Ideology before 1933: A Documentation, 1978. MOLTKE, Count H. von, A German of the Resistance, 1946. MOSSE, G.L., Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich: A Documentary History, 1981. MULLER, F., Eyewitness Auschwitz, 1979. NEUBAUER, H. and T. Palmér, The Weimar Republic – Through the Lens of the Press, 2000 NOAKES, J. and G. Pridham (ed.), Nazism 1919-1945, 4 vols, 1983-1998 NOAKES, J. and G. Pridham (eds.), Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1990. OVERY, R. J., The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939, 1994 OVERY, R. J., The Origins of the Second World War, 1998. PERRY, M., M. Berg, and J. Krukones (eds.), Sources of Twentieth-Century Europe, 2000, Chapter 4: An Era of Fascism, and Chapter 5: World War II. PHILIPPS, D.M. Hitler and the Rise of the Nazis (= The Archive Series), 1968 POIS, R. (ed.), Selected Writings of Alfred Rosenberg, 1970 PRANGE, G.W. (ed.), Hitler’s Words (Speeches 1922-43), 1944 RAUSCHNING, H., Hitler Speaks: A Series of Conversations with Adolf Hitler on his Real Aims, 1940 RÖHL, J.C.G., From Bismarck to Hitler, 1970. SCHACHT, H., Account Settled, 1948. SIMPSON, W., Hitler and Germany, 1991 SNYDER, L.L. (ed.), Hitler’s Third Reich: A Documentary History, 1981. SOVIET Documents on Foreign Policy, 1917-41. SPEER, A., Infiltration, 1981. SPEER, A., Inside the Third Reich, 1997. STACKELBERG, R. and S.A. Winkle (eds.), The Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts, 2002. STEINHOFF, J., Voices from the Third Reich: An Oral History, 1994. TAYLOR, F. (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941, 1982. TREVOR-ROPER, H., Hitler’s Table Talk: Hitler’s Conversations recorded by Martin Bormann, 1953/1988. TREVOR-ROPER, H., Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His private conversations, 2000. WEINBERG, G.L., Hitler’s Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, 2003 9 WELCH, D., Modern European History, 1871-2000, 2nd ed. 1999, Chapter: Nazi Germany, and Chapter: The approach to the Second World War. WIEDER, J. and H. Graf von Einsiedel, Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments, 2003. WILLIAMSON, D.G., The Third Reich, 2002. ZIENEF, G. A., Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi, 1942. Secondary Sources History is all about different interpretations of events. When preparing projects and seminars for history coursework it is essential to form your own critical opinion of other’s arguments – and then work out your own position. Because of this, no single ‘textbook’ is recommend for this course. Nonetheless, you are expected to read intensively and regularly in order to prepare properly for classes. You can rely on the following books for good background information and thought provoking arguments. They are: General Readings BERGHAHN, V.R., Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the 20th century, 2nd ed. 1987 BLACKBOURN, D., The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918, 1998 BOEHME, H., An Introduction to the Social and Economic History of Germany: Politics and Economic Change in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1978. BRAUN, H.J., The German Economy in the Twentieth Century. 1990 CARR, W., A History of Germany, 1815-1945, 4th ed. 1991. CONRADT, D. P., The German Polity, 1996. CRAIG, G.A., Germany, 1866-1945, 1978. DAVIES, N., Europe: A History, 1996, pp. 897-1056. DINE, P. J., A History of Germany, 1968. FULBROOK, M., A Concise History of Germany, 1990. FULBROOK, M., Germany, 1918-1990: The Divided Nation. 1991. HAFFNER, S., The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler, 1991. HIDEN, J., Germany and Europe, 1919-1939, 1993. KITCHEN, M., A Military History of Germany, 1975. KOLKEY, J.M., Germany on the March: A Reinterpretation of War and Domestic Politics Over the Past Two Centuries, 1995. MANN, G., The History of Germany since 1789. 1968. OVERY, R. J., The Economic Development of Germany Since 1870, 1997. PULZER, P., Germany 1870-1945: Politics, state formation, and war, 1997. SCHULZE, H., Germany: A New History, 1998. TAYLOR, A.J.P., The Course of German History, 1961. WILLIAMSON, D.G., Germany since 1815: A Nation Forged and Renewed, 2005. Special Readings ALLEN, W.S., The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 19301935, 1966 ALY, G., Final Solution: Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews, 1999 BANKIER, D., The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism, 1992 10 BARBER, J.D., The Book of Democracy, 1995 BARTOV, O. (ed.), The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath, 2000 BECKER, H. P., German Youth, 1976 BELL, P.M.H., The Origins of the Second World War in Europe, 1997 BESSEL, R. (ed.), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The Fascist Style of Rule, 1995. BESSEL, R., Germany after the First World War, 1993. BESSEL, R., Life in the Third Reich, 1987. BOEMEKE, M.F. etc., The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years, 1998. BOTWINICK, R.S., A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilation, 2001 BRACHER, K., The German Dictatorship, 1971 BRAHAM, Randolph L. (ed.), The Vatican and the Holocaust: The Catholic Church and the Jews During the Nazi Era, 2000 BREITMAN, R., German Socialism and Weimar Democracy, 1981. BROSZAT, M., The Hitler State: The Foundation and Development of the Internal Structure of the Third Reich, 1981 BROSZAT, Martin, Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar, 1987. BRUSTEIN, William, The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933, 1996 BULLOCK, Alan, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, 1972 BURLEIGH, M., Confronting the Nazi Past: New Debates on Modern German History, 1996. BURLEIGH, M., Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide, 1997. BURLEIGH, M., The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945, 1991. BURLEIGH, M., The Third Reich: A New History, 2000. BURRIN, P., Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust, 1994. CARLEY, M.J., 1939: The Alliance that Never was and the Coming of World War II, 1999. CARR, W., Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics, 1978. CARSTEN, F.L. Reichswehr and Politics, 1918-1933. 1973. CHILDERS, T., The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933, 1983. CLENDINNEN, I., Reading the Holocaust, 1999. COHN-SHERLOCK, D., Understanding the Holocaust: An Introduction, 2000. CREW, Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945, 1994 DAVISON, E., The Making of Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism, 1997. DAWIDOWICZ, L., The War Against the Jews, 1933-45, 1975. DUELFFER, J., Nazi Germany, 1933-1945: Faith and Annihilation, 1996 FALTER, J.W., The First German Volkspartei: The Social Foundations of the NSDAP, in: K. Rohe (ed.), Elections, Parties and Political Traditions, 1990. FELDMAN, G.D. Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945, 2001 FEST, J., Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, 2004. FEST, J.C., Hitler, 1974. FEST, J.C., The Face of the Third Reich, 1970. FEST, J.C., The Final Verdict, 2002. FEUCHTWANGER, E.J. From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-1933, 1995. FINNEY, P. (ed.), The Origins of the Second World War, 1997. FISCHER, Conan (ed.), The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany, 1996 11 FISHER, Conan, The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Class in Weimar Germany Providence, 1996 FLEMING, G., Hitler and the Final Solution, 1984. FREI, N., National Socialist Rule in Germany: The Fuehrer State 1933-45, 1993. FREVERT, U., Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation, 1995 FRITZSCHE, Peter. Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany. 1990 FULBROOK, Mary, Germany, 1918-1990: The Divided Nation, 1991 FUYKSCHOT, C., Hunger in Holland: Life During the Nazi Occupation, … GAY, P., Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider, 1981 GEARY, Dick, Hitler and Nazism, 1993 GELLATELY, R. and N. Stoltzfus (eds.), Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany, 2001. GELLATELY, R., Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 2001. GEUTER, U., The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany, 1992. GILBERT, M., Never Again: A History of the Holocaust, 2000. GILLINGHAM, J., Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe, 1985. GLASER, H., The Cultural Roots of National Socialism, 1978 GODMAN, P., Hitler and the Vatican: The Secret Archives that Reveal the Complete Story of the Nazis and the Vatican, 2004. GOLDHAGEN, D.J., Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, 1996. GONEN, J.Y., The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler’s Utopian Barbarism, 2000. GRUNBERGER, R., A Social History of the Third Reich, 1971. GUTMAN, Y. and M. Berenbaum (eds.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, 1994. GUTTSMAN, W. L., The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933, 1981 HAMILTON, R. F., Who Voted for Hitler? 1982 HARDACH, K., The Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century, 1980. HARSCH, D., German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism, 1993 HASTE, Cate, Nazi Women, 2001. HEIBER, H.,, The Weimar Republic, 1993 HILBERG, Paul, Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945, 1992. HILDEBRAND, Klaus, The Third Reich, 1989. HOFFMANN, Peter, The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945, 1977. JAMES, H., The German Slump: Politics and Economics, 1924-1936, 1986 JELAVICH, B., Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1800-1980, 1987. JOHNSON, Eric A., Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans, 1999 JONES, L.E., German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933, 1988. JOSHI, Vandana, Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo (1933-45), 2003 KAPLAN, M., Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, 1998 KATER, M.H. The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919-1945, 1983/85. KAUDERS, A., German Politics and the Jews: Duesseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910-1933, 1996. KEEGAN, J., The Second World War in the West, 1999 KERSHAW, I., Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, 1998; Hitler 1937-1945: Nemesis, 1999 KERSHAW, I., The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich. 1987 12 KERSHAW, I., The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. 1993/2000 KERSHAW, I. and M. 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(eds.), The Third Reich: The Essential Readings, 1999. LEITZ, C., Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941: The Road to Global War, 2004. LEWIS, B.R., Hitler Youth: The Hitlerjugend in War and Peace, 1933-1945, 2000. LEWIS, D., The Man Who Invented Hitler: The Making of the Führer, 2003. LIFTON, R.J., The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, 1986. LUKACS, J., The Hitler of History, 1997. MARRUS, M R. (ed.), The Nazi Holocaust: Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust, 1989. MARRUS, M. R., The Origins of the Holocaust, 1989. MARRUS, M.R., The “Final Solution”: The Implementation of Mass Murder, 1989. MASON, T., Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, 1995. Mc DONOUGH, F., Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1999. Mc KENZIE, J.R.P., Weimar Germany, 1919-1933, 1971 McCLOSKEY, B., George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936, 1997 McDONOUGH, F., Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1999. McKENZIE, J.R.P., Weimar Germany, 1918-1933, 1971. 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