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William Lawrence Shirer (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ r ər /; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian.His The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany, has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years; its 50th anniversary was marked by a new edition of the book.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a book by American journalist William L. Shirer in which the author chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. It was first published in 1960 by Simon & Schuster in the United States.
It provided much of the material for his subsequent landmark book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. The book was published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf on June 20, 1941, [1] almost six months before Germany declared war on the United States, and simultaneously in Canada by Ryerson Press, when Canada was already at war with Germany. [1]
The Times called A Village in the Third Reich, authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life", [5] and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction". [6] Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust". [7]
The Third Reich is a series of books published by Time-Life Books that chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, relating historical events as experienced by the German side. [1]
The Third Reich: The Essential Readings (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999) Liddell-Hart, B.H. The German Generals Talk. New York: Quill, 1979 [1948]. Low, Alfred D. The Third Reich and the Holocaust in German Historiography: Toward the Historikerstreit of the Mid-1980s (East European Monographs, 1994) MacDonogh, Giles.
Hanfstaengl was portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the 2003 Canadian television miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil. American actor Randy Quaid played him in the 1982 television film Inside the Third Reich. Ronald Pickup played him in the 1989 miniseries The Nightmare Years.
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (April 4, 1932 – December 17, 2008) was an American historian of Germany who was a professor at Yale University for over forty years. He is best known for his book German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (1985) in which he challenged the common theory that industrialists in Germany were the Nazi Party’s most influential supporters.