Nazi Party/Bibliography

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Party to 1933

• Abel, Theodore. Why Hitler Came into Power. Harvard U. Press, 1986. 315 pp.
• Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich: A History. 2004. 622 pp., a major scholarly survey excerpt and text search
• Hatheway, Jay. "The Pre-1920 Origins of the National Socialist German Workers' Party." Journal of Contemporary History 1994 29(3): 443-461. Issn: 0022-0094 Fulltext: in Jstor
• Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr. Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933. 1996. 272 pp. online edition

Nazi voters

• Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945. (1965). excerpt and text search
• Brustein, William. The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933, 1996; 252 pages
• Childers, Thomas. The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933 (1983) excerpt and text search
• Falter, Jurgen W., and Reinhard Zintl. "The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer, 1988), pp. 55-85 in JSTOR
• O'Loughlin, John, Colin Flint, Luc Anselin. "The Geography of the Nazi Vote: Context, Confession, and Class in the Reichstag Election of 1930," Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1994) 84 (3), 351–380. in JSTOR

Hitler

see Adolf Hitler for more books

• Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, (1962) online edition
• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris. vol. 1. 1999. 700 pp. excerpt and text search vol 1; vol 2: Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis. 2000. 832 pp.; the leading scholarly biography, excerpt and text search vol 2
• Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich. (1987). 297 pp. excerpt and text search
• Kershaw, Ian. "Hitler and the Uniqueness of Nazism." Journal of Contemporary History 2004 39(2): 239-254. Issn: 0022-0094 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Nicholls, David. Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion. ABC-CLIO, 2000. 344 pp.
• Welch, David. Hitler UCL Press 1998. 123pp online edition

Party and Nazi State: 1933-45

• Bracher, Karl D. The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Consequences of National Socialism (1973). Influential analysis by political scientist
• Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. (2000). 864 pp. Stress on antisemitism; excerpt and text search
• Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939. (2005). 800 pp. The major scholarly study excerpt and text search
• Geary, Dick. Hitler and Nazism, (2000) 97 pages
• Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (3rd edition, 1999)
• Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004) excerpt and text search
• Williamson, David. "Was Hitler a Weak Dictator?," History Review. 2002. pp 9+. online version
• Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. 2 vol. Macmillan, 1991. 1120 pp.

Leadership

• Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (1992) excerpt and text search
• Dederichs, Mario. Heydrich: The Face of Evil (2006)
• Manvell, Roger, and Heinrich Fraenkel. Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career (2007)
• Manvell, Roger, and Heinrich Fraenkel. Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death (2006)
• Overy, Richard. Goering (2000) excerpt and text search
• Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs 1970. excerpt and text search

Holocaust

• Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. (2000). 864 pp. Stress on antisemitism; excerpt and text search
• Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War against the Jews, 1933-45, (1977).
• Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 (1998)
• Friedlander, Saul. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (2007), the standard history excerpt and text search
• Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (1987) excerpt and text search
• Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust (2002)excerpt and text search
• Gutman, Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vol (1989)
• Landau, Ronnie. The Nazi Holocaust (2002)
• Levy, Richard, ed. Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution (2005)
• Niewyk, Donald, and Francis Nicosia. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. (2000) online edition
• Wachsmann, Nikolaus. "Looking into the Abyss: Historians and the Nazi Concentration Camps," European History Quarterly, 4 2006; vol. 36: pp. 247 - 278. fulltext in Sage; historiography
• Wistrich, Robert S. Hitler and the Holocaust. 2001. 295 pp.

Economics and Labor

• Baranowsky, Shelley. Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (2004)
• Overy, R. J. The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938 (1996) excerpt and text search
• Silverman, Dan P. Hitlers Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936 (1998) excerpt and text search
• Smelser, Ronald. Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Leader (1989)
• Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2007), highly influential new study

Media

• Hoffmann, Hilmar. The Triumph of Propaganda: Film and National Socialism, 1933-1945 (1996), 258 pages online edition
• Zimmermann, Clemens; Deveson, Richard, Transl. "From Propaganda to Modernization: Media Policy and Media Audiences under National Socialism." German History 2006 24(3): 431-454. Issn: 0266-3554 Fulltext: in Ebsco

Religion

• Vondung, Klaus. "National Socialism as a Political Religion: Potentials and Limits of an Analytical Concept." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 2005 6(1): 87-95. Issn: 1469-0764 Fulltext: in Ebsco

Resistance

• Benz, Wolfgang, and Walter H. Pehle, eds. Encyclopedia of German Resistance to the Nazi Movement. (1997). 354 pages
• Hamerow, Theodore S. On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler (1997) 454 pages
• Heller, R. P. The Flame of Freedom: The German Struggle against Hitler. (1994) focus on Army online edition
• Hoffmann, Peter. German Resistance to Hitler (1988)
• Klemperer, Klemens Von. German Resistance Against Hitler: the search for allies abroad, 1938-1945 (1992) 487 pages online edition
• Mommsen, Hans. Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance to the Nazi Order 2003
• Thomsett, Michael C. The German Opposition to Hitler: The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots, 1938-1945 (2nd ed 2007) 278 pages

Science and learning

• Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939. (2005). ch 3
• Kater, Michael H. Doctors under Hitler (1989)
• Walker, Mark. Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb. (1995) online edition

Women, children, youth

• Bridenthal, Renate, Atina Grossmann, and Marion Kaplan. When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (1984).
• Cosner, Shaaron and Cosner, Victoria. Women under the Third Reich: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood, 1998. 203 pp.
• Hancock, Eleanor. "Employment in Wartime: the Experience of German Women During the Second World War." War & Society 1994 12(2): 43-68. ISSN: 0729-2473
• Harvey, Elizabeth. Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization (2003)
• Joshi, Vandana. Gender and Power in the Third Reich (2003)
• Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, Family Life, and Nazi Ideology, 1919-1945. (1986). 640 pp. The major study
• Owings, Alison. Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. Rutgers U. Press, 1993. 484 pp. oral histories
• Passmore, Kevin. Women, Gender and Fascism in Europe, 1919-45 (2003)
• Phayer, Michael. Protestant and Catholic Women in Nazi Germany. Wayne State U. Press, 1990. 286 pp.
• Rempel, Gerhard. Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS, (1989) online edition
• Stephenson, Jill. The Nazi Organisation of Women. (1981). 246 pp.
• Stibbe, Matthew. Women in the Third Reich, 2003, 208 pp.

Other countries

• Blum, George P. The Rise of Fascism in Europe (1998) online edition
• Codevilla, Angelo M. Between the Alps and a Hard Place. Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History (2000)
• Pauley, Bruce F. Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism 1981 online edition
• Payne, Stanley G. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 (1995), the standard history
• Rich, Norman. Hitler's War Aims: The Establishment of the New Order. Volume: 2 1974 online edition
• Rogger, Hans, and Eugen Weber, eds. The European Right: A Historical Profile (1965), essays by scholars on the major European countries