Germany/Bibliography

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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
• 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

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)
• 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

1815-1933

see also Bismark

• 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 Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939. (2005). 800 pp. The major scholarly study excerpt and text search
• 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
• 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
• Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. 2 vol. Macmillan, 1991. 1120 pp.

Origins

• 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
• Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich: A History. 2004. 622 pp., a major scholarly survey excerpt and text search
• Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr. Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933. 1996. 272 pp. online edition

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. 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

• Klessmann, Christoph. The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-War German History (2001) online edition

Since 1990

• Kahn, Charlotte. Ten Years of German Unification: One State, Two Peoples (2000) online edition

Political Institutions

• Manfred G. Schmidt (2003) Political Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany ISBN 0198782594