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Germany and the Second World War (vol. 6): The Global War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Contributing authors: Horst Boog, Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf, and Bernd Wegner. Germany and the Second World War (vol. 7): The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943-1944/5. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Allies seized vast masses of documents in 1945, which British historian Alan Bullock (1914–2004) used with a brilliant writing style. Bullock's biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) depicts Hitler as the product of the chaos in Germany after 1918, where uncertainty and anger inflamed extremism and created the ideal setting for Hitler's demagoguery to succeed.
In his 2007 book Cultural Amnesia, the critic Clive James wrote, "Books about Hitler are without number, but after more than 60 years, the first one to read is still Alan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny." [7] The book has been criticised for its reliance on the fabrications of Albert Speer and Hermann Rauschning, which it treats as ...
Mein Kampf, Hitler's first book. This bibliography of Adolf Hitler is a list of some non-fiction texts in English written about and by him.. Thousands of books and other texts have been written about him, so this is far from an all-inclusive list: Writing in 2006, Ben Novak, an historian who specializes in Hitler studies, estimated that in 1975 there were more than 50,000 books and scholarly ...
The Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft 1933–1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945") is a memorial book published by the German Federal Archives, listing persons murdered during the Holocaust as part of the Nazis' so-called "Final Solution".
The books are illustrated with maps created by András Bereznay. [2] [3] [4] According to Ian Kershaw, it is "the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich". [5] It has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical scholarship". [6]
Authors, living and dead, were placed on the list because of Jewish descent, or because of pacifist or communist and/or Freemasonic sympathies or suspicion thereof. In May and June 1933, in the first year of the Nazi government, there were book burnings. These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of ...
The book explains some important consequences of defeating Nazi Germany: Division of territory into four zones of occupation including the last minute trading of Saxony and Thuringia by the Western Allies in return for a presence in Berlin (again in four sectors) at the heart of what had been the Third Reich.