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==Contemporary== | |||
===Guides=== | |||
* Schafers, Bernha, ''The State of Germany Atlas'' (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/State-Germany-Atlas-Bernha-Schafers/dp/0415188261/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324991&sr=1-27 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Schulte-Peevers, Andrea, et al. ''Lonely Planet Germany'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Germany-Andrea-Schulte-Peevers/dp/1740599888/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324694&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search] | |||
===Economics and society=== | |||
* Siebert, Horst. ''The German Economy: Beyond the Social Market'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/German-Economy-Beyond-Social-Market/dp/0691096643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201328508&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Zimmermann, Klaus F. et al. ''Immigration Policy and the Labor Market: The German Experience and Lessons for Europe'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Immigration-Policy-Labor-Market-Experience/dp/354068381X/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201328716&sr=8-9 excerpt and text search] | |||
===Politics=== | |||
* Green, Simon, and William E. Paterson. ''Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Governance-Contemporary-Germany-Semisovereign-Revisited/dp/0521848814/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324991&sr=1-25 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Hancock, M. Donald, ''Politics in Europe: An Introduction to the Politics of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Europe-Introduction-Kingdom-Germany/dp/1933116455/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324694&sr=1-11 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Schmidt, Manfred G. ''Political Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany'' (2003) ISBN 0198782594 | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Surveys and historiography== | ===Surveys and historiography=== | ||
* Bithell, Jethro, ed. ''Germany: A Companion to German Studies'' (5th ed. 1955), 578pp; essays on German literature, music, philosophy, art and, especially, history. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/germany-a-companion-to-german-studies-by-jethro-bithell.jsp online edition] | |||
* Buse, Dieter K. ed. ''Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture 1871-1990'' (2 vol 1998) | |||
* Detwiler, Donald S. ''Germany: A Short History'' (3rd ed. 1999) 341pp; [http://www.questia.com/library/book/germany-a-short-history-by-donald-s-detwiler.jsp online edition] | |||
* Evans, Richard J. ''Rereading German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1800-1996'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/rereading-german-history-from-unification-to-reunification-1800-1996-by-richard-j-evans.jsp online edition] | * Evans, Richard J. ''Rereading German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1800-1996'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/rereading-german-history-from-unification-to-reunification-1800-1996-by-richard-j-evans.jsp online edition] | ||
* Holborn, Hajo. ''A History of Modern Germany'' (3 vol 1959-64); col 1: The Reformation; vol 2: 1648-1840 [http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Germany-Hajo-Holborn/dp/0691007969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201323320&sr=8-1 online and text search]; vol 3. 1840-1945 | |||
* Maehl, William Harvey. ''Germany in Western Civilization'' (1979), 833pp | |||
* Reinhardt, Kurt F. ''Germany: 2000 Years'' (2 vols., 1961), stress on cultural topics | |||
* Taylor, A. J. P. ''The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815.'' (2001). 280pp; [http://www.questia.com/read/107459655 online edition] | * Taylor, A. J. P. ''The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815.'' (2001). 280pp; [http://www.questia.com/read/107459655 online edition] | ||
* Watson P. (2010) [http://www.harpercollins.com/books/The-German-Genius-Peter-Watson?isbn=9780060760236&HCHP=TB_The+German+Genius ''The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century'']. HarperCollins. Harper Perennial. ISBN 9780060760236. | [http://books.google.com/books?id=3z9NfMRRVrEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books preview]. | A cultural and intellectual history. | |||
==Pre 1870== | ==Pre 1870== | ||
== | ===Medieval=== | ||
* Arnold, Benjamin. ''Medieval Germany, 500-1300: A Political Interpretation'' (1998) | |||
* Barraclough, Geoffrey. ''The Origins of Modern Germany'' (2d ed., 1947) | |||
* Fuhrmann, Horst, and Timothy Reuter. ''Germany in the High Middle Ages: c.1050-1200'' (1986) [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-High-Middle-Ages-c-1050-1200/dp/0521319803/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201323097&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Haverkamp, Alfred, Helga Braun, and Richard Mortimer. ''Medieval Germany 1056-1273'' (1992) | |||
* Jeep, John M. ''Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia'' (2001), 928pp, 650 articles by 200 scholars cover A.D. 500 to 1500[http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Germany-Encyclopedia-Routledge-Encyclopedias/dp/0824076443 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Reuter, Timothy. ''Germany in the Early Middle Ages, C. 800-1056'' (1991) | |||
===Reformation=== | |||
see also [[Martin Luther]] | |||
* Bainton, Roland H. ''Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther'' (1978; reprinted 1995) [http://www.amazon.com/Here-I-Stand-Martin-Luther/dp/0452011469/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200876332&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Dickens, A. G. ''Martin Luther and the Reformation'' (1969), basic introduction | |||
* Junghans, Helmar. ''Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483–1546.'' (book plus CD ROM) (1998) | |||
* Ranke, Leopold von. ''History of the Reformation in Germany'' (1905) 792 pp; by Germany's foremost scholar [http://books.google.com/books?id=KPdBAAAAIAAJ&dq=intitle:history+intitle:reformation&lr=lang_en&num=30&as_brr=1&ei=GsaVR5S0OIXy6gK5z9CeBw complete text online free] | |||
* Smith, Preserved. ''The Life and Letters of Martin Luther.'' (1911) [http://books.google.com/books?id=bngAAAAAMAAJ&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Life+intitle:and+intitle:Letters+intitle:of+intitle:Martin+intitle:Luther&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&ei=DO-TR86lGKeGtgPWkuxG complete edition online free] | |||
===Early Modern to 1815=== | |||
==1815-1933== | |||
see also [[Bismark]] | |||
* Berghahn, Volker Rolf. ''Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century'' (1987) [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.01673 ACLS E-book] | |||
* Blackbourn, David, and Geoff Eley. ''The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany'' (1984) [http://www.questia.com/read/27706474 online edition] | |||
* Brose, Eric Dorn. ''German History, 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich.'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/read/10401562 online edition] | |||
* Craig, Gordon A. ''Germany, 1866-1945'' (1978) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/germany-1866-1945-by-gordon-a-craig.jsp online edition] | |||
* Mann, Golo. ''History of Germany since 1789'' (1968), very well written | |||
* Mommsen, Wolfgang J. ''Imperial Germany 1867-1918: Politics, Culture and Society in an Authoritarian State'' (1995) | |||
* Retallack, James. ''Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II'' (1996) [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Wilhelm-Studies-European-History/dp/0312160313/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201322874&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Sheehan, James J. ''German History, 1770-1866'' (1993), the major survey in English [http://www.amazon.com/German-History-1770-1866-Oxford-Modern/dp/0198204329/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201322874&sr=8-8 except and text search] | |||
* Sheehan, James J. ''German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century'' (1978, 1995) [http://www.amazon.com/German-Liberalism-Nineteenth-Century-Sheehan/dp/157392606X/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201322874&sr=8-14 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. ''The German Empire 1871-1918'' (1984) | |||
===Nazi era=== | ===Nazi era=== | ||
see also | see also National Socialism for more books | ||
* 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; [http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-New-History/dp/080909326X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874312&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | ||
* | |||
* Evans, Richard J. ''The Coming of the Third Reich: A History.'' 2004. 622 pp., a major scholarly survey [http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/B0007XWNGO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195982055&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search] | * Evans, Richard J. ''The Coming of the Third Reich: A History.'' 2004. 622 pp., a major scholarly survey [http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/B0007XWNGO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195982055&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search] | ||
* | * Evans, Richard J. ''The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939.'' (2005). 800 pp. The major scholarly study [http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-Power-1933-1939/dp/1594200742/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195982055&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Mommsen, Hans. ''The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918-1945'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/104090875 online edition] | |||
* Overy, Richard. ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Hitlers-Germany-Stalins-Russia/dp/B000FTCH5W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874351&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Roderick, Stacke. ''Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Germany-Origins-Interpretations-Legacies/dp/0415201152/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198895224&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. ''The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich.'' 2 vol. Macmillan, 1991. 1120 pp. | |||
==== | ====Nazi Leaders==== | ||
see [[Adolf Hitler]] for more books | see [[Adolf Hitler]] for more books | ||
* Breitman, Richard. ''The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/Architect-Genocide-Solution-Institute-European/dp/0874515963/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195982257&sr=1-8 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Bullock, Alan. ''Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, '' (1962) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=55427796 online edition] | * Bullock, Alan. ''Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, '' (1962) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=55427796 online edition] | ||
* Geary, Dick. ''Hitler and Nazism,'' (2000) 97 pages | |||
* Kershaw, Ian. ''Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris.'' vol. 1. 1999. 700 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1889-1936-Hubris-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393320359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874144&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search vol 1]; vol 2: ''Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis.'' 2000. 832 pp.; the leading scholarly biography, [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874179&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search vol 2] | * Kershaw, Ian. ''Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris.'' vol. 1. 1999. 700 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1889-1936-Hubris-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393320359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874144&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search vol 1]; vol 2: ''Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis.'' 2000. 832 pp.; the leading scholarly biography, [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874179&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search vol 2] | ||
* Kershaw, Ian. ''The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich.'' (1987). 297 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Myth-Image-Reality-Third/dp/0192802062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874219&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | * Kershaw, Ian. ''The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich.'' (1987). 297 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Myth-Image-Reality-Third/dp/0192802062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874219&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Nicholls, David. ''Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion.'' ABC-CLIO, 2000. 344 pp. | * Nicholls, David. ''Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion.'' ABC-CLIO, 2000. 344 pp. | ||
* Overy, Richard. '' Goering'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Goering-Richard-Overy/dp/1842120484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195982214&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Speer, Albert. ''Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs'' 1970. [http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Third-Reich-Albert-Speer/dp/1842127357/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195982338&sr=1-9 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Welch, David. ''Hitler'' UCL Press 1998. 123pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=109000510 online edition] | * Welch, David. ''Hitler'' UCL Press 1998. 123pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=109000510 online edition] | ||
* Williamson, David. "Was Hitler a Weak Dictator?," ''History Review.'' 2002. pp 9+. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000710589 online version] | * Williamson, David. "Was Hitler a Weak Dictator?," ''History Review.'' 2002. pp 9+. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000710589 online version] | ||
===Holocaust=== | ===Holocaust=== | ||
* Dawidowicz, Lucy. ''The War against the Jews, 1933-45,'' (1977). | * 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. ''Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939'' (1998) | ||
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* Stephenson, Jill. ''The Nazi Organisation of Women.'' (1981). 246 pp. | * Stephenson, Jill. ''The Nazi Organisation of Women.'' (1981). 246 pp. | ||
* Stibbe, Matthew. ''Women in the Third Reich,'' 2003, 208 pp. | * Stibbe, Matthew. ''Women in the Third Reich,'' 2003, 208 pp. | ||
===1945-1990=== | |||
* Berghahn, Volker Rolf. ''Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century'' (1987) [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.01673 ACLS E-book] | |||
* Fulbrook, Mary. ''Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989'' (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Dictatorship-Inside-GDR-1949-1989/dp/0198207204/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324544&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | |||
* Klessmann, Christoph. ''The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-War German History'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/102311940 online edition] | |||
* Pritchard, Gareth. ''The Making of the GDR, 1945-53'' (2004) | |||
* Ross, Corey. ''The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR'' (2002) | |||
===Since 1990=== | |||
== | * Alba, Richard. Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer. ''Germans or Foreigners?: Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Germans-Foreigners-Minorities-Post-Reunification-Transition/dp/1403963789/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324886&sr=1-22 excerpt and text search] | ||
* | * Kahn, Charlotte. ''Ten Years of German Unification: One State, Two Peoples'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/read/23486249 online edition] | ||
* Larres, Klaus. ''Germany Since Unification: The Development of the Berlin Republic'' (2nd ed. 2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Since-Unification-Second-Development/dp/0333919998/ref=sr_1_28?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201324991&sr=1-28 excerpt and text search] |
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Contemporary
Guides
- Schafers, Bernha, The State of Germany Atlas (1998) excerpt and text search
- Schulte-Peevers, Andrea, et al. Lonely Planet Germany (2007) excerpt and text search
Economics and society
- Siebert, Horst. The German Economy: Beyond the Social Market (2005) excerpt and text search
- Zimmermann, Klaus F. et al. Immigration Policy and the Labor Market: The German Experience and Lessons for Europe (2007) excerpt and text search
Politics
- Green, Simon, and William E. Paterson. Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited (2005) excerpt and text search
- Hancock, M. Donald, Politics in Europe: An Introduction to the Politics of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden (2006) excerpt and text search
- Schmidt, Manfred G. Political Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany (2003) ISBN 0198782594
History
Surveys and historiography
- Bithell, Jethro, ed. Germany: A Companion to German Studies (5th ed. 1955), 578pp; essays on German literature, music, philosophy, art and, especially, history. online edition
- Buse, Dieter K. ed. Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture 1871-1990 (2 vol 1998)
- Detwiler, Donald S. Germany: A Short History (3rd ed. 1999) 341pp; online edition
- Evans, Richard J. Rereading German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1800-1996 (1997) online edition
- Holborn, Hajo. A History of Modern Germany (3 vol 1959-64); col 1: The Reformation; vol 2: 1648-1840 online and text search; vol 3. 1840-1945
- Maehl, William Harvey. Germany in Western Civilization (1979), 833pp
- Reinhardt, Kurt F. Germany: 2000 Years (2 vols., 1961), stress on cultural topics
- Taylor, A. J. P. The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815. (2001). 280pp; online edition
- Watson P. (2010) The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century. HarperCollins. Harper Perennial. ISBN 9780060760236. | Google Books preview. | A cultural and intellectual history.
Pre 1870
Medieval
- Arnold, Benjamin. Medieval Germany, 500-1300: A Political Interpretation (1998)
- Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Origins of Modern Germany (2d ed., 1947)
- Fuhrmann, Horst, and Timothy Reuter. Germany in the High Middle Ages: c.1050-1200 (1986) excerpt and text search
- Haverkamp, Alfred, Helga Braun, and Richard Mortimer. Medieval Germany 1056-1273 (1992)
- Jeep, John M. Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (2001), 928pp, 650 articles by 200 scholars cover A.D. 500 to 1500excerpt and text search
- Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages, C. 800-1056 (1991)
Reformation
see also Martin Luther
- Bainton, Roland H. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1978; reprinted 1995) excerpt and text search
- Dickens, A. G. Martin Luther and the Reformation (1969), basic introduction
- Junghans, Helmar. Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483–1546. (book plus CD ROM) (1998)
- Ranke, Leopold von. History of the Reformation in Germany (1905) 792 pp; by Germany's foremost scholar complete text online free
- Smith, Preserved. The Life and Letters of Martin Luther. (1911) complete edition online free
Early Modern to 1815
1815-1933
see also Bismark
- Berghahn, Volker Rolf. Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century (1987) ACLS E-book
- Blackbourn, David, and Geoff Eley. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1984) online edition
- Brose, Eric Dorn. German History, 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich. (1997) online edition
- Craig, Gordon A. Germany, 1866-1945 (1978) online edition
- Mann, Golo. History of Germany since 1789 (1968), very well written
- Mommsen, Wolfgang J. Imperial Germany 1867-1918: Politics, Culture and Society in an Authoritarian State (1995)
- Retallack, James. Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1996) excerpt and text search
- Sheehan, James J. German History, 1770-1866 (1993), the major survey in English except and text search
- Sheehan, James J. German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (1978, 1995) excerpt and text search
- Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. The German Empire 1871-1918 (1984)
Nazi era
see also National Socialism for more books
- 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 Coming of the Third Reich: A History. 2004. 622 pp., a major scholarly survey 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
- Mommsen, Hans. The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918-1945 (2001) online edition
- Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004) excerpt and text search
- Roderick, Stacke. Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies (1999) excerpt and text search
- Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. 2 vol. Macmillan, 1991. 1120 pp.
Nazi Leaders
see Adolf Hitler for more books
- Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (1992) excerpt and text search
- Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, (1962) online edition
- Geary, Dick. Hitler and Nazism, (2000) 97 pages
- 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
- Nicholls, David. Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion. ABC-CLIO, 2000. 344 pp.
- Overy, Richard. Goering (2000) excerpt and text search
- Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs 1970. excerpt and text search
- Welch, David. Hitler UCL Press 1998. 123pp online edition
- Williamson, David. "Was Hitler a Weak Dictator?," History Review. 2002. pp 9+. online version
Holocaust
- 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
- Landau, Ronnie. The Nazi Holocaust (2002)
- Niewyk, Donald, and Francis Nicosia. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. (2000) online edition
- 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
- Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2007), highly influential new study
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
- R. P. Heller. The Flame of Freedom: The German Struggle against Hitler. (1994) focus on Army online edition
- Thomsett, Michael C. The German Opposition to Hitler: The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots, 1938-1945 (2nd ed 2007) 278 pages
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.
- Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, Family Life, and Nazi Ideology, 1919-1945. (1986). 640 pp. The major study
- 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.
1945-1990
- Berghahn, Volker Rolf. Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century (1987) ACLS E-book
- Fulbrook, Mary. Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989 (1998) excerpt and text search
- Klessmann, Christoph. The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-War German History (2001) online edition
- Pritchard, Gareth. The Making of the GDR, 1945-53 (2004)
- Ross, Corey. The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR (2002)
Since 1990
- Alba, Richard. Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer. Germans or Foreigners?: Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany (2004) excerpt and text search
- Kahn, Charlotte. Ten Years of German Unification: One State, Two Peoples (2000) online edition
- Larres, Klaus. Germany Since Unification: The Development of the Berlin Republic (2nd ed. 2001) excerpt and text search