A good friend sent the following recent email and I thought I would pass it on:



I'm going to the library today to see if I can find any of these books. I know the Republican game plan (handbook) came from the Nazis. Wow, what would the world be like today if Hitler hadn't come along.....




The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

The popular journalistic account; readers should also consult Joachim Fest's Hitler



Hitler: A Study in Tyranny

Alan Bullock

A solid biography; tells as much about the times as the man. "Remains the best biography of Adolf Hitler in English"--Gordon A. Craig, NY Review of Books



The Nazis; A Warning from History

Laurence Rees, Foreword by Ian Kershaw

Interviews with German and East European Nazi sympathizers that formed the basis of a BBC documentary about daily life in Nazi Germany



The Meaning of Hitler

Sebastian Haffner,Ewald (Translator) Osers,Ewald Osers (Translator)

The psychological and historical forces that shaped the mind of Hitler and made his rise possible



The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology

Fritz Richard Stern

The development of Nazi ideology, as evidenced by the writings of three German cultural critics, Paul de Lagarde, Julius Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck



Inside the Third Reich

Albert Speer

An insider's account of Hitler's machine, to be read with caution



The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy

Mommsen Hans,Larry E. Jones (Translator),Elborg Forster (Translator)

In this analysis of the Weimar Republic, Mommsen, professor of history at the University of the Ruhr, surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. He argues that the rise of totalitarianism in Germany was not inevitable but was the result of a confluence of specific domestic and international forces. "Mommsen's work is now required reading for any serious student of German political history in the Weimar era"--Choice



Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children during World War II

Jost Hermand,Margot B. Dembo (Translator)

Between 1933 and 1945, millions of German children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be "German." Hermand, a critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his own experiences and offers an account of a phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans



Why Hitler Came into Power

Theodore Abel,Thomas Childers

"The book's main purpose is to measure, in the light of the author's unique personal data, the relative importance of each of the main factors to which [Hitler's] rise to power has hitherto been ascribed, including Hitler's own leadership, the strategy of the party tacticians, and the favorable circumstances of popular discontent. The results are highly important." -- American Political Science Review



The Rise of Fascism

Francis L. Carsten

"Professor Carsten surveys the major and minor European fascist groups which flourished between the world wars, including such movements as were active in Romania, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Britain, and Belgium. In doing so, he has produced a useful, if brief, addition to the growing number of studies on this subject." --The Historian "The best scholarly description of European Fascism available." -- American Historical Review




The Salaried Masses

Siegfried Kracauer,Quintin Hoare (Translator),Inka Mulder-Bach (Introduction)

A classic of sociological inquiry, first published in 1930. Drawing on conversations, newspapers, advertisements and personal correspondence, Kracauer looks into the nature and habits of the new, spiritually homeless class of salaried employees that had emerged in the cities of the Weimar Republic and would soon prove fundamental to Hitler's rise to power



Hitler: The Führer and the People

J. P. Peter. Stern,J. P. Stern

"War, for the Hitler regime, was not an unfortunate accident. As I try to show, it had a functional importance as a means to an end. No war today can possibly be seen in the same light, by Communism or anyone else. Nobody now subscribes to the ideology of annihilation and sacrifice: once this is recognized, at least one set of causes of a possible conflict is removed." -- J.P. Stern



The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933

Thomas Childers

Statistical analysis that illuminates upper- and lower-middle-class electoral support for the Nazis



For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler

Victoria Barnett

Barnett delves into the story of the Church's resistance to Hitler. "Conveying an accurate portrait and understanding of the German church struggle under National Socialism has proven to be extraordinarily complicated...Victoria Barnett is singularly well prepared to do this. She has written an unusually accurate, sophisticated, and vivid book about the German church struggle...a genuinely absorbing and readable work"--Eberhard Bethge, author of Friendship and Resistance: Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer