I can suggest the book sister in the resistance how women fought to free france 19401945 by margaret collins weitz and france the dark years 19401944 bt julian jackson and hitler by joachim fest and hitlers jewish soldiers. Walther w st with the ss leadership corps of munich and ssncos in attendance. As far as can be discerned from the public record, into the darkness. In destined to witness, hans massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in nazi germany. One that i cant recommend enough is i will bear witness, by victor klemperer. Mein kampf is essential, but it is almost always in a shortened version. In fahrenheit 451, bradbury explain the hatred towards books in the society by the characterization of the people in the. Love, terror, and an american family in hitlers berlin by erik l.
Klemperer, a cousin of famed conductor otto klemperer the father of actor werner klemperer, was a professor of romance languages at dresdens technical university, an. As part of an effort to align german arts and culture with nazi ideas gleichschaltung, university students in college towns across germany burned thousands of books they considered to be ungerman, heralding an era of state censorship and cultural control. The history of national socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentiethcentury history, and one whose significance extends far beyond germany or even europe alone. Into the darkness nazi germany today internet archive. Hitler wanted german boys to be warlike and remarques book did not fit this desire. Here is an example of one that was recently happened. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Which is the best book that describes daily life in nazi. The fiftieth anniversary edition of the national book awardwinning bestseller that is the definitive study of adolf hitler, the rise of nazi germany, the holocaust. Kafkas personal notes and papers were seized by the gestapo and are still being searched for today. The third reichs supporters in the united states argues that the threat of nazism in the united states before world war ii was greater than we. This book is a very detailed and neutral account of the mass murder of jews around germany by nazi reserve police. The best book about the diplomatic history and events leading upto and causing wwii is donald cameron watts how war came. A detailed history of the education in nazi germany that includes images, quotations and the main events.
When it came to nazi leaders, ohlers research suggested, they all favored their own particular drugs of choice. Each of the stories in the book is designed to be fun and engaging with just the right amount of new vocabulary. The nazi war on ungerman individual expression had begun. Germany was successfully promoting itself as the ideal place to. The may 1933 book burning in nazi germany had a precedent in nineteenth century germany. The nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the german student union the dst to ceremonially burn books in nazi germany and austria in the. Book burnings in germany, 1933 american experience. In 1817, german student associations burschenschaften chose the 300th anniversary of luthers 95 theses to hold a festival at the wartburg, a castle in thuringia where luther had sought sanctuary after his excommunication.
A leading holocaust historian just compared the us to nazi. After adolf hitlers accession to power in 1933, the nazis set out to reconstruct german society. Is it possible to say anything new about nazi germany. This is the book that inspired the acclaimed film of the same name. On may 10, 1933 student groups at universities across germany carried out a series of book burnings of works that the students and leading nazi party members associated with an ungerman spirit. Nazi book burnings popular books burned by nazi during. World war ii was a global conflict driven by adversarial political ideologies. A new book has gathered the memories of kriegskinder, next to portraits of them as they are now. How the children of nazi germany remember world war two. Meth kept people in the system without their having to think about it blitzed looks set to reframe. Metamorphosis by franz kafka this book was banned in nazi germany and in surrounding communist countries. Naturally, it can be quite graphic at times, even describing the exact methods they learned to shoot as many people as possible with the least amount of mess and trauma. When hitler came to power on january 30 th 1933, he was acutely aware of the power of authors both within nazi germany and internationally. Destroying ideas as early as two weeks before, american organizations like the american jewish congress knew of the planned book.
Wistrich a very useful book with short biographies of nearly 350 persons that influenced every aspect of life in nazi germany, from hitler to obscure nazi bureaucrats. In response to the attacks on him about comments he made about cubas fidel castro overseeing a great educational system, senator bernie sanders opted to double down with a short book about his top dozen favorite leaders. An uncensored report from inside the third reich 1940, a recounting of his investigation of the third reich during the phony war phase of world war ii, is the last book that t. Translated from the third reich original published in 1934, this book covers the nazi party rise to power and the first year of rule, including a chapter on goerings tasks. This book contains 280 pages of unconventional german short stories that are perfect for a1b1 levels. Part ii of the book opens with the naming of hitler as chancellor of germany at the end of january 1933, and the immediate utilization of the weimar gun control policies to begin the nazi campaign to seize arms and eradicate the socalled enemies of the state all of whom were tagged as communists. Book burning united states holocaust memorial museum. Death dealer, the diaries of rudolf hoss, not hess. The single best book about nazi germany is the rise and fall of the third reich by william shirer. Daily life in nazi germany, 19331945 by paul roland isbn. Enthusiastic crowds witnessed the burning of books by brecht, einstein, freud, mann and remarque, among. These included books written by jewish, pacifist, religious, liberal, anarchist, socialist, communist, and sexologist.
Some authors were not only tolerated by the nazi regime, they were encouraged to write. All three books are pretty well researched and well written, and evans made sure to present as many points of view as possible, giving you a closer look. Students threw books pillaged mostly from public and university libraries onto. The german student union the dst conducted a campaign, called the nazi book burnings, to ceremonially burn books in nazi germany and austria in the 1930s. This is a list of books about nazi germany, the state that existed in germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by adolf. Hitler knew that they had the power to undermine germany abroad if they were allowed to write as they wished. Nazi germany and the book burnings books are still being burned but not by the control of the government. Katers engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within nazi germany considers how the german artsandletters scene was transformed when the nazis came to power. The book counted the holy roman empire 9621806 as the first reich and the german empire 18711918 as the second. It also includes some important works on the development of nazi imperial ideology, totalitarianism, german society during the era, the formation of anti.
This is a list of books about nazi germany, the state that existed in germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by adolf hitler and his national socialist german workers party nsdap. At that time germany had a number of authors who had an international reputation. The following list is necessarily partial, but should represent the most influential literature blacklists from 1933 to 1935. He was a leader of the third reich, an authoritarian government which was imperialist and authoritarian and treated its adversaries very harshly, particularly, germanys jewish communities. What are good books to know about the inside of nazi germany. Anthony reads top 10 books about hitler and the third. This is a chapter from a middle school geography textbook published in the midst of the war. Nazi salutes and anthems accompany the smoldering pile. Fahrenheit 451 and nazi germany book burning prezi. This is, after all, probably the most thoroughly researched period in modern history. Censorship, banning, and book burning in nazi germany.
With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, kater details the struggle between creative. Whos who in nazi germany looks at the individuals who influenced every aspect of life in nazi germany. On its first publication in 1969, brachers book was described as the first, correct, full and comprehensive account of the origins, the structure and the machinery of the nazi dictatorship. The nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the german student union the dst to ceremonially burn books in nazi germany and austria in the 1930s. Every institution was infused with national socialist ideology and infiltrated by nazi personnel in chief positions. The poet and playwright bertolt brecht also left germany. New book reveals horror of nazi camp brothels reuters. The book thief by markus zusak, in the garden of beasts.
The experience of a single german town, 19221945 new york. Common english terms for the german state in the nazi era are nazi germany and third reich. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to nazism. In an interview with vice when his book was first published in. The final volume, the third reich at war, follows nazi germany from the start of the war up until its final collapse. Daily life in nazi germany, 19331945 kindle edition by roland, paul. The brothels show another dimension to the nazi terror, where victims of the nazis were made into perpetrators against the women, said sommer, who grew up in communist east germany. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading life in the third reich. To do that, the totalitarian government attempted to exert complete control over the populace. According to leonidas hill, author of the nazi attack on ungerman literature, 19331945, by 1934, over forty agencies had lists ennumerating 4,100 publications to be banned.
A companion to nazi germany addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the nazi partys emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From nobel prize winners to a book burned by the nazis, this list takes a whistlestop tour through germanys most influential books and authors. Photographer frederike helwig reveals how they remember childhoods in nazi germany. The books viewed as being subversive or representing the ideologies opposed to nazism were targeted for. Inside the drug use that fueled nazi germany history. It covers a representative crosssection of german society from 19331945, and includes. This volume presents an uptodate and authoritative introduction to the history of nazi germany, with ten chapters on the most important themes, each by. This is a book you will find yourself using again and again. The burned books included work by thomas mann, heinrich mann, erich maria remarque and albert einstein. Melita maschmann, a former nazi, published just such a book. The son of a prominent african and a german nurse, hans remained behind with his mother when hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to liberia.