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A list of key readings about Nazi Party.

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## Contents

* 1 Party to 1933
* 2 Nazi voters
* 3 Hitler
* 4 Party and Nazi State: 1933-45
* 5 Leadership
* 6 Holocaust
* 7 Economics and Labor
* 8 Media
* 9 Religion
* 10 Resistance
* 11 Science and learning
* 12 Women, children, youth
* 13 Other countries

## Party to 1933[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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