History and Background

• Europe - Jewish Life
• Germany - Pre-Nazi Period
• Germany - Nazi Period
• Crystal Night
• Nazi Leaders

Europe - Jewish Life

Borchsenius, Paul. And it was morning: the story of the Jews in our time London: George Allen and Unwin, 1962.

Cohn, Norman. Warrant for genocide. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Foerster, F.W. Jews. Montreal: Palm, 1961.

Lowenthal, Marvin. Jews of Germany: a story of sixteen centuries. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1936.

Poppel, Stephen M. Zionism in Germany 1897 – 1933: the shaping of a Jewish identity. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976.

Rabinowicz, Harry M. The Legacy of Polish Jewry: a history of Polish Jews in the inter-war years 1919-1939. New York: T. Yoseloff, 1965.

Sachar, Abram Leon. A History of the Jews. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

Wirth, Louis. The Ghetto. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.

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Germany - Pre-Nazi Period

Craig, Gordon A. The Germans. New York: New American Library, 1982.

DeJonge, Alex. The Weimar chronicle: prelude to Hitler. New York: New American Library, 1978.

Dornberg, John. Munich 1923: the story of Hitler's first grab for power. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

Evans, Richard J. Rethinking German history: nineteenth-century Germany and the origins of the Third Reich. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987.

Hiemer, E. Der Giftpilz: ein Stürmerbuch für Jung u. Alt. Erzählungen von Ernst Hiemer; Bilder von Fips. [n.l.]: Simon and Schuster, 1938.

Lorant, Stefan. Sieg heil! New York: Norton, 1974.

Malcolm, Ian (Ed.). Scraps of Paper: German proclamations in Belgium and France. New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.

Manchester, William. Arms of Krupp 1587-1968. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968. Adolf Hitler

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Germany - Nazi Period

Allen, William Sheridan. The Nazi seizure of power: the experience of a single German town 1930-35. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965.

Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for sale: Nazi-Jewish negotiations 1933-45. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Black, Edwin. The Transfer Agreement: the untold story of the secret agreement between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German dictatorship: the origins, structure, and effects of national socialism. New York: Praeger, 1970.

Brennan, J.H. Occult Reich. Scarborough, Ont.: New American Library of Canada, 1974.

Brett-Smith, Richard. Hitler's generals.San Rafael: Presidio Press, 1976.

The Brown Book of the Hitler terror and the burning of the Reichstag. London: Victor Gollancz, 1933.

Butler, Rupert. The Black angels: a history of the Waffen SS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.

Cargill, Morris. A Gallery of Nazis. New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, 1978.

Cooper, Matthew. German Army 1933-1945: its political and military failure. New York: Bonanza Books, 1984.

Davis, Brian Leigh and Pierre Turner. German uniforms of the Third Reich, 1933-1945. New York: Arco Publishing, 1980.

De Jaeger, Charles. The Linz file: Hitler's plunder of Europe's art. Toronto: John Wiley and Sons, 1981.

Delarue, Jacques and William Shaffir. History of the Gestapo. London: MacDonald, 1964.

Denham, Henry and John Murray. Inside the Nazi ring: a naval attaché in Sweden 1940-1945. London: John Murray, 1984.

Deuel, Wallace R. People under Hitler. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1942.

Deutsch, Harold C. The Conspiracy against Hitler in the twilight war. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970.

Downing, David. The Devil's virtuosos: German generals at war 1940-5. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977.

Duncan-Jones, A.S. The Struggle for religious freedom in Germany. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.

Dyrenforth, James and Max Kester. Adolf in blunderland. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1940.

Ernst, Genri. Hitler Over Europe? London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1939.

Forman, James D. Nazism. New York: Dell, 1978.

Freeman, Gillian. Nazi lady: the diaries of Elisabeth Von Stahlenberg 1933-1948. London: Blond and Briggs, 1978.

Gabori, George. When evils were most free. Toronto: Seal Books, 1982.

Gallo, Max. The Night of Long Knives. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Gehlen, Reinhard. The Service: the memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen. New York: World Publishing, 1972.

Giles, O.C. Gestapo. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1940.

Glesinger, Egon. Nazis in the woodpile: Hitler's plot for the essential. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942.

Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Goldston, Robert. The Life and death of Nazi Germany. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.

Goodspeed, Donald James. The German wars 1914-1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

Graber, G.S. History of the SS. London: Grafton Books, 1986.

Grün, Max, von der. Howl like the wolves: growing up in Nazi Germany. New York: William Morrow, 1980.

Grunberger, Richard. The 12-year Reich: A social history of the Third Reich. Hamondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971.

Grunfeld, Frederic V. The Hitler file: a social history of Germany and the Nazis 1918-1945. New York: Bonanza Books, 1979.

Hahn, Lili. White flags of surrender. Washington: Robert B. Luce, 1974.

Havas, Laslo. Hitler's plot to kill the big three. New York: Cowles Books, 1967.

Heinz, Hohne and Hermann Zolling. Network: the truth about General Gehlen and his spy ring. London: Secker and Warburg, 1972.

Herman, Stewart W. It's your souls we want. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1943.

Herzstein, Robert Edwin. Nazis. Chicago: Time-Life Books, 1980.

Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Johnnie and S. Frederick Starr. Against two evils. London: Collins, 1981

Hildebrand, Klaus. Foreign policy of the Third Reich. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970.

Holborn, Hajo (Ed.). Republic to Reich: the making of the Nazi revolution, ten essays. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

Huss, Pierre J. Heil! and farewell. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1943.

Infield, Glenn B. Skorzeny: Hitler's commando. New York: Military Heritage Press, 1981.

Janowsky, Oscar I. and Melvin M. Fagen. International aspects of German racial policies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1937.

Jarman, T.L. The Rise and fall of Nazi Germany. New York: Signet Books, 1961.

John, Otto. Twice through the lines: the autobiography of Otto John. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Johnstone, J. C. Germany – Hammer or Anvil? London: Hutchinson, 1939.

Kahn, David. Hitler's spies: German military intelligence in World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1978.

Karski, Jan. Story of a secret state. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944.

Kersten, Jakob and James McMillan. The secret of Torgau: why the plot to kill Hitler failed. London: Harrap, 1982.

King, Christine Elizabeth. Nazi State and the new religions: five case studies in non-conformity. Toronto: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982.

Koch, H.W. Hitler Youth: origins and development 1927-1945. New York: Stein and Day, 1976.

Kolnai, Aurel. War against the West. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.

Krüger, Horst. A Crack in the wall: growing up under Hitler. New York: Fromm International, 1982.

Leiser, Clara. Nazi nuggets. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939.

Leske, Gottfried. I was a Nazi flier. New York: Dial Press, 1941.

Levine, Herbert S. Hitler's free city: a history of the Nazi Party in Danzig, 1925-39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Lewin, Ronald. Hitler's mistakes. London: Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, 1984.

Liepmann, Heinz. Fires underground: a narrative of the secret struggle carried on by the illegal organizations in Germany under penalty of death. London: George G. Harrap, 1936.

Lips, Eva. What Hitler did to us: a personal record of the Third Reich. London: Michael Joseph, 1938.

Maass, Walter B. Assassination in Vienna. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.

Malraux, Andre. Days of wrath. New York: Random House, 1936.

Mandell, Richard D. The Nazi Olympics. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel. Canaris conspiracy: the secret resistance to Hitler in the German army. London: Heinemann, 1969.

Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel. July plot: the attempts in 1944 on Hitler's life and the men behind it. London: Bodley Head, 1964.

Martin, James Stewart. All honorable men. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

Mason, Herbert Molloy Jr. To kill the devil: the attempts on the life of Adolph Hitler. New York: Norton, 1978.

Mason, Herbert Molloy, Jr. The Rise of the Luftwaffe: forging the secret German air weapon 1918-1940. New York: Dial Press, 1973.

Mendoza. Hail! Hitler: the Nazi speaks to the world. London: Christopher's, 1934.

Metternich, Tatiana. Purgatory of fools: a memoir of the aristocrats' war in Nazi Germany. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976.

Mollo, Andrew. To the death's head true. London: Methuen, 1982.

Mosse, George L. The Crisis of German ideology: intellectual origins of the Third Reich. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1964.

Mosse, George L. Nazi Culture: intellectual, cultural and social life in the Third Reich. New York: Schocken Books, 1981.

Moszkiewicz, Helene. Inside the Gestapo: a Jewish woman's secret war. Toronto: Macmillan, 1985.

Neumann, Robert and Helga Koppel. The pictorial history of the Third Reich. New York: Bantam Books, 1973.

Norden, Peter. Madam Kitty: a true story. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1973.

O'Donnell, James P. The Berlin bunker. London: Arrow Books, 1979.

O'Donnell, James P. The Bunker: the history of the Third Chancellery Group. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

Orlow, Dietrich. The Nazis in the Balkans: a case study of totalitarian politics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968.

Orlow, Dietrich. The history of the Nazi Party: 1919-1933. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969.

Pool, James. Hitler and his secret partners: contributions, loot and rewards 1933-1945. New York: Pocket Books, 1997.

Pool, James and Suzanne Pool. Who financed Hitler: the secret funding of Hitler's rise to power 1919-1933. New York: Dial Press, 1979.

Price, Alfred. Pictorial history of the Luftwaffe 1933-45. New York: Arco Publishing, 1969.

Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz Percy. Diary of a man in despair. New York: Collier Books, 1970.

Reed, Douglas. Nemesis? London: Right Book Club, 1942.

Reimann, Guenther. Patents for Hitler. New York: Vanguard Press, 1942.

Riess, Curt. Nazis go underground. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1944.

Roberts, Stephen H. House that Hitler built. London: Methuen, 1939.

Roosenburg, Henriette. The walls came tumbling down. London: Secker and Warburg, 1957.

Rosenthal, A.M. and Arthur Gelb. One more victim: the life and death of a Jewish Nazi. New York: New American Library, 1967.

Roux, Catherine. Red triangle. Geneva: Ferni, 1979.

Russell of Liverpool (Lord). The Scourge of the swastika: a short history of Nazi war crimes. London: Cassell, 1955.

Ryder, Rowland. Ravenstein: Portrait of a German general. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978.

Sayer, Ian. Nazi Gold: the story of the world's greatest robbery – and its aftermath. London: Granada, 1984.

Schellenberg, Walter. Hitler's secret service. New York: Jove, 1977.

Schirach, Baldur, von et al. [Eds.]. "Wille und Macht". Jahrg. 1-12, Heft 5/6; Feb. 1933-May/June 1944..

Schlotterbeck, Friedrich. The Darker the night, the brighter the stars. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947.

Scott, Chris. Hitler's bomb. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983.

Shirer, William L. The Rise and fall of the Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

Shirer, William L. The Nightmare years - 1930-1940: 20th century journey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary. New York: Plimpton, 1941.

Smith, Howard K. Last train from Berlin. London: Cresset Press, 1942.

Szyk, Arthur. The New order. New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1941.

Taylor, Telford. Sword and swastika: generals and Nazis in the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

Tenenbaum, Joseph. Race and Reich: the story of an epoch. New York: Twayne, 1956.

Tetens, T.H. The New Germany and the old Nazis. New York: Random House, 1961.

Tobias, Fritz. Reichstag fire: Legend and truth. London: Secker and Warburg, 1963.

Tosevic, Dimitri J. Not Nazis but Germans. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1944.

Valtin, Jan. Out of the night. New York: Alliance Books, 1941.

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Our battle. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938.

Vogt, Hannah. The Burden of Guilt: a short history of Germany 1914-1945. London: Oxford University Press, 1965..

Weiss, Ernst. The Eyewitness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

Winterbotham, F.W. The Nazi connection. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Winward Walter. Hammer strike. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978.

Wolfe, Henry C. German octopus. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938.

World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism. The brown book of Hitler terror and the burning of the Reichstag (In Yiddish). London: V. Gollancz, 1933.

Yenne, William P. (Ed.). German war art 1939-45. New York: Crescent Books, 1983.

Ziemer, Gregor. The Education for death: the making of the Nazi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941.

Zimmerman, Eric and Hans Adolf Jacobson (ds.). Germans against Hitler. Bonn: Press and Information Office of the Federal German Government, [1960]

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Crystal Night (Kristallnacht)

Read, Anthony and David Fisher. Kristallnacht, the Nazi night of terror. New York: Random House, 1989.

Thalmann, Rita Feinermann, Emmanuel. Crystal night 9-10 November 1938. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974. Heinrich Himmler

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Nazi Leaders

Adolf Hitler

Bezymenski, Lev. The death of Adolf Hitler. London: Michael Joseph, 1968.

Boldt, Gerhard. Hitler: the Last Ten Days. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1973.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: parallel lives. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: a study in Tyranny. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

Cooper, William. L., Jr. and Walter D. Engels. The Secret life of Adolf Hitler: based on the television documentary film produced for WPIX, Inc. New York: Citadel Press, 1960.

Devaney, John. Hitler: mad dictator of World War II. New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1978.

Fest, Joachim C. and Michael Bullock. Hitler. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Flood, Charles B. Hitler: the path to power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

Heiden, Konrad. Der Fuehrer: Hitler's rise to power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944.

Heiden, Konrad. Der Fuehrer: book one. London: Victor Gollancz, 1944.

Heiden, Konrad. Der Fuehrer: book two. London: Victor Gollancz, 1944.

Heston, Leonard L. and Renate Heston. The Medical casebook of Adolf Hitler: his illnesses, doctors and drugs. New York: Stein and Day, 1980.

Hitler, Adolf. Hitler's thirteen points. London: Friends of Europe, 1935.

Hitler, Adolf. Hitler the man. London: Friends of Europe, 1936.

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf (My Struggle). London: Hurst and Blackett, 1938.

Infield, Glenn. Eva and Adolf. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1974.

Infield, Glenn B. Hitler's secret life: the mysteries of the eagle's nest. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.

Jackel, Eberhard. Hitler's world view: a blueprint for power. London: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Jetzinger, Franz. Hitler's youth. London: Hutchinson, 1958.

Jones, Sydney J. Hitler in Vienna, 1907-13. London: Blond and Briggs, 1983.

Kersten, Felix. The Kersten memoirs: 1940-45. London: Hutchinson, 1956.

Langer, Walter C. The Mind of Adolf Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 1972.

Lemond,. Alan. Hitler: the horror and the Holocaust. New York: Magazine Management Co., Oct. 1974.

Maser, Werner. Hitler's letters and notes. New York: Bantam Books, 1973.

Matanle, Ivor. Adolph Hitler: a photographic documentary. New York: Crescent Books, 1983.

McKnight, Gerald. The Strange loves of Adolf Hitler. London: Sphere Books, 1978.

Olden, Rudolf. Hitler the pawn. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936.

Payne, Robert. Life and death of Adolph Hitler. New York: Praeger, 1973.

Rauschning, Hermann. Germany's revolution of destruction. London: William Heinemann, 1939.

Schmidt, Paul. Hitler's interpreter. New York: Macmillan, 1951.

Smith, Gene. The Horns of the moon: a short biography of Adolph Hitler. New York: Charterhouse, 1973.

Snyder, Louis L. Hitler and Nazism. New York: Bantam Books, 1961.

Steel, Johannes. Hitler as Frankenstein. London: Wishart and Co., 1933.

Stone, Norman. Hitler. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Toland, John. Adolph Hitler, Volume 1. New York: Doubleday, 1976.

Toland, John. Adolph Hitler, Volume 2. New York: Doubleday, 1976.

Toland, John. Hitler: the pictorial documentary of his life. New York: Doubleday, 1978.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh. The last days of Hitler. New York: Macmillan, 1947.

Unger, Michael. The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler. London: Duckworth, 1979.

Waite, Robert G.L. The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Walther, Herbert. Hitler. New York: Bison Books, 1978.

Wykes, Alan. Hitler. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.

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Albert Speer

Schmidt, Matthias and Joachim Neugroschel. Albert Speer: the end of a myth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: memoirs. New York: Bonanza Books, 1982.

Speer, Albert. Spandau: the secret diaries. New York: Macmillan, 1976.

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Alfred Rosenberg

Cecil, Robert. The myth of the master race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi ideology. New York: Dodd Mead, 1972.

Posselt, Eric. Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg. Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1949.

Wille und Macht. Berlin: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, [1933].

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Heinrich Himmler

Infiltration: how Heinrich Himmler schemed to build an SS industrial empire. New York: MacMillan, 1981. Hermann Goering

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Hermann Goering

Frischauer, Willi. The Rise and fall of Hermann Goering. London: Four Square Books, 1960.

Lee, Asher. Goering: air leader. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1972.

Markstein, George. The Goering testament. London: Pan Books, 1978.

Mosley, Leonard. The Reich Marshal: a biography of Hermann Goering. New York: Doubleday, 1974.

Swearingen, Ben E. The mystery of Herman Goering's suicide. San Diego: San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.

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Joseph Goebbels

Boelcke, Willi A. (Ed.). The Secret conferences of Dr. Goebbels, October 1939-March 1943. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.

Heiber, Helmut. Goebbels: a biography. London: Robert Hale, 1973.

Lochner, Louis P. (Ed.). The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-43. New York: Doubleday, 1948.

Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel. Doctor Goebbels: his life and death. London: Heinemann, 1960.

Meissner, Hans-Otto. Magda Goebbels: the First Lady of the Third Reich. New York: 1980.

Reimann, Viktor. The Man who created Hitler: Joseph Goebbels. London: Sphere Books, 1979.

Taylor, Fred. (Ed.). The Goebbels diaries, 1939-1941. New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1982.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh. Final entries: 1945, the diaries of Joseph Goebbels. New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1978.

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Joseph Mengele

Astor, Gerald. The "last" Nazi: the life and times of Dr. Joseph Mengele. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985.

Aziz, Philipe. Doctors of death: Joseph Mengele the evil doctor. Geneva: Ferni, 1976.

Church, Gene. "80629": a Mengele experiment. Richardson, Tex.: S.K. Damon, 1986.

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Martin Bormann

Farago, Ladislas. Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Lang, Jochen, von. Bormann: the man who manipulated Hitler. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.

Lang, Jochen, von. The Secretary: Martin Bormann: the man who manipulated Hitler. New York: Random House, 1979.

Stevenson, William. Bormann brotherhood. London: Arthur Baker, 1973.

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Reinhard Heydrich

Calic, Edouard. Reinhard Heydrich: the chilling story of the man who masterminded the Nazi death camps. New York: William Morrow, 1982.

Ivanov, Miroslav. Target: Heydrich. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

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Rudolf Hess

Bird, Eugene. The Loneliest man in the world: the inside story of the 30-year imprisonment of Rudolf Hess. London: Secker and Warburg, 1974.

Booth, Meyrick. Prisoner of Peace. London: Britons Publishing, 1954.

Douglas–Hamilton, James. Motive for a mission: the story behind Hess's flight to Britain. London: MacMillan, 1971.

Hutton, J. Bernard. Hess: the man and his mission. London: David Bruce and Watson, 1970.

Rees, J.R. The Case of Rudolph Hess: a problem in diagnosis and forensic psychiatry. London: William Heinemann, 1947.

Schwarzwäller, Wulf. Rudolf Hess: the deputy. London: Quartet Books, 1988.

Thomas, W. Hugh. The Murder of Rudolph Hess. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.

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