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Jonathan Cape, 1974

The definite source
This is the best (and the biggest) book I have read on the subject of German Nazism. Noakes explores the whole development of this movement offering translations of original speeches, legal texts, military orders and contemporary diaries. Not being satisfied with just showing the pieces, Noakes offers us lots of explanations and analysis of wider social contexts in which the texts were written. ...

Nazism 1919-1945 Volume3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination:A Documentary Reader (University of ...

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University of Exeter Press, 2001

GOOD HOLOCAUST REFERENCE
As the subtitle suggests, the book concentrates on World War II and the Jewish extermination, and I must say the last part on the holocaust was the best. The first half or so, while accurate enough, is nothing more than a basic history lesson. Only those with little or no knowledge of the war will find it useful. The second half is a different story. It covers the holocaust, providing ...

Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance under the Third Reich

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Hans Mommsen

Princeton University Press, 2003

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Mommsen surveys the history of the resistance that led up to the abortive plot of July 20, 1944. He presents a concise yet definitive survey of the motives behind the various groups who joined the plot, their political aspirations, and what they hoped to gain from removing Hitler. More importantly, he tackles the vexed question of how the resistance leaders viewed the persecution of the Jews in ...

Government, Party And People In Nazi Germany (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in History)

University of Exeter Press, 1980

Examines the relationship of the Nazi Party with the civil service and the working class. The effectiveness of the machinery of the party is also analysed and an assessment made of its impact on public opinion.

Britain and Germany in Europe 1949-1990 (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Anglo-German relations since the Second World War have been, in contrast to earlier periods of the twentieth century, generally warm and constructive. There have, however, also been periods of acute tension, showing that underlying sources of conflict remain. This volume of essays by leading historians from both countries explores the relationship first in matters of 'high politics': different approaches to European integration, common ...

Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 4: The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary Reader (University of Exeter ...

University of Exeter Press, 1998

Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in wartime Germany: government and party, law and terror, welfare and social planning, sex and population policy, women, youth, propoganda, morale and resistance.

Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader (University of Exeter ...

University of Exeter Press, 2001

Volume 2 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political system, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of terror, antisemitism and popular attitudes towards the regime - consent, dissent and resistance.

Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 1: The Rise to Power 1919-1934: A Documentary Reader (University of Exeter Press - ...

University of Exeter Press, 1998

Volume 1 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary, covers the period from the founding of the Nazi party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934.