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==Pre 1870==
==Pre 1870==
==Since 1870==
==1815-1933==
* 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]
 
===Nazi era===
===Nazi era===
see also [[National Socialism]] for more books
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 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]
* 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]
* 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]
* Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. ''The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich.'' 2 vol. Macmillan, 1991. 1120 pp.
====Origins====
====Origins====
* Allen, William S. ''The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945.'' (1965). [http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Seizure-Power-Experience-1922-1945/dp/0531056333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874016&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Allen, William S. ''The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945.'' (1965). [http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Seizure-Power-Experience-1922-1945/dp/0531056333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198874016&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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* Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr.  ''Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933.'' 1996. 272 pp.  [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98209364 online edition]
* Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr.  ''Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933.'' 1996. 272 pp.  [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98209364 online edition]


====Hitler====
====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]  
* 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]
* Geary, Dick. ''Hitler and Nazism,''  (2000) 97 pages
* 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]
* 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.   
* 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]
====Party and Nazi State: 1933-45====
* 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 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]
* 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) [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]
*  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]
* Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. ''The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich.'' 2 vol. Macmillan, 1991. 1120 pp.
===Leadership===
* 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]
* 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]


===Holocaust===
===Holocaust===
* 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]
* 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===
* Klessmann, Christoph. ''The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-War German History'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/102311940 online edition]


===Since 1990===


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

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A list of key readings about Germany.
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History

=Surveys and historiography

  • Evans, Richard J. Rereading German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1800-1996 (1997) online edition
  • 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

1815-1933

  • 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

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

Political Institutions

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