(Part 3) Best german history books according to redditors
We found 2,040 Reddit comments discussing the best german history books. We ranked the 658 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
There’s a great book about this called “Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany”
https://www.amazon.com/Exorcising-Hitler-Occupation-Denazification-Germany/dp/1608195031
One of my most enlightening but depressing college reads was The Men with the Pink Triangle. I’d read a lot of WWII and concentration camp books for school before, but that one was a truly unique perspective.
Fun story that most people seem to not know: Hitler wasn't rejected from art school because his art was bad, but because the commission that reviewed his portfolio thought he had a proclivity towards architecture instead. The school's rector wrote a letter recommending that he apply to the school of architecture the following semester, and Hitler wrote that he was excited at the prospect, however he never did because he was scared his high school grades were too bad to get accepted there. In the meantime, he got himself involved in politics and the rest is history.
​
Edited for clarification/specificity after rereading the text - Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, available to read online for free here. However I'd recommend getting the actual book or getting it on Audible if you're interested. One of the best and most unique books on the subject due to it's emphasis on actual first-person diaries and communications from Nazi leadership and common people.
There is a book The Men with the pink Triangle by Heinz Heger. It is a biography of a young man man who sent to a concentration camp for having a committed relationship the son of an senior officer. It captures well not only the horrible brutaltity of concentration camp condtions for homosexuals; but also the social isolation that would be targeted towards concentration camp inmates after the war.
In the Nazi system there were killing centers that rapidly murdered people brought in each day; and concentration camps that acted like barbaric holding facilities and prisons. There was a series of crimes that were considered to have been rightly prosecuted; but wrongly punished. The allies were not going to free prisoners who they deemed as criminals: it would be a danger to the occupation. Men who should of been deemed national hero like Alan Turing were still be persecuted in Britain.
The persecution of gay people was odd because many of the persecutors had gay tendencies. Heinz Heger tells of how guards would seemingly be erotically aroused by beating prisoners in the nude; and other inmates would use berate prisoners for being homophobic one moment and proposition them for sex the next.
The Nazis put created new laws that made non-penetrative homoerotic activities to be punishable by law, but they suffered great embarrassment when many of their soldiers and officers were arrested. What was considered "male bonding" in some areas of the German military was indiscernible from what was being prosecuted against purported homosexuals. Himmler wanting to create a law that would make homosexuality punishable by death within the SS, but it was not created because Hitler did not want to admit that homosexuality existed in the German army. Why would you need new laws unless it is a problem?
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Edit = I've listed some of the best books I've read on the subject below. Just ask if you want to know anything about them:
[The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans] (http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/0143034693/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904650&sr=8-3&keywords=third+reich+at+war)
[The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans] (http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-Power-Richard-Evans/dp/0143037900/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904650&sr=8-2&keywords=third+reich+at+war)
[The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans] (http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-at-War/dp/0143116711/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904650&sr=8-1&keywords=third+reich+at+war)
[Maus by Art Speigelman] (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Maus-25th-Anniversary/dp/0679406417/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904780&sr=8-2&keywords=maus)
[Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederich Spotts] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Power-Aesthetics-Frederic-Spotts/dp/1585673455/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904821&sr=8-1&keywords=hitler+power+of+aesthetics)
[Art of the Third Reich by Peter Adam] (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Third-Reich-Peter-Adam/dp/0810919125/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=21WGRYFWN5L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR115%2C160_&refRID=1VRZ6QYR6PG5XXXMYTPN)
[Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Empire-Nazis-Ruled-Europe/dp/014311610X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904865&sr=8-1&keywords=hitler%27s+empire)
[State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda by Susan Bachrach and Steven Luckert] (http://www.amazon.com/State-Deception-Power-Nazi-Propaganda/dp/0896047148/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904916&sr=8-1&keywords=state+of+deception+nazi)
[Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1889-1936-Hubris-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393320359/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904967&sr=8-2&keywords=hitler+kershaw)
[Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=01WJ9WDS06KZ1AX79B3M)
[The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton] (http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Doctors-Medical-Psychology-Genocide/dp/0465049052/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905061&sr=1-1&keywords=the+nazi+doctors)
[The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg] (http://www.amazon.com/Raul-Hilberg-Destruction-European-third/dp/B008UYLG6K/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905115&sr=1-4&keywords=destruction+of+the+european+jews)
[Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich] (http://www.amazon.com/Heinrich-Himmler-Peter-Longerich/dp/0199651744/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905176&sr=1-1&keywords=heinrich+himmler)
[Hitler's Hangman - The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwartch] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Hangman-The-Life-Heydrich/dp/0300187726/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51FT1ecdFQL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=084WSKT05G4GB1FGE1SY)
[Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander] (http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Germany-Jews-Persecution-1933-1939/dp/0060928786/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905269&sr=1-3&keywords=nazi+germany+and+the+jews+saul)
[Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander] (http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Germany-Jews-1939-1945-Extermination/dp/0060930489/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0DQYMK2GMYNVJK794F03)
[Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning] (http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0060995068)
[KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann] (http://www.amazon.com/KL-History-Nazi-Concentration-Camps/dp/0374118256/ref=pd_sim_14_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41yRIhssGkL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0BSM1HJ13NDQ46VKENQK)
I'm part of a HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) Club. We learn longsword fencing techniques based on the translated manuals from 15th-16th centuries swordsmen who attribute their knowledge to a 14th century master named Johannes Liechtenauer.
​
We put what we learn to use also because we drill and spar with masks, gloves, padded jackets and real steel training swords. After you feel like you can hold your own, you can sign up to be in tournaments. There are HEMA clubs all over the world that compete. it's really fun learning the history and testing your skills in real fencing matches.
​
I personally bought a book after i was finished the 10-week beginner course, that's a pretty comprehensive guide to all of the basic and intermediate offensive and defensive moves, drills, techniques etc. with easy to follow pictures and diagrams.
​
Downvoted - what he wrote can't be taken seriously. The myths he spreads were for decades fueled by the fact that Western historians had no access to high quality sources on the subject. The Battle of Kursk isn't the largest battle in human history, nor is it the largest armoured engagement; even its significance as pivotal event is strongly debated. See Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative by Valeriy Zamulin for details.
For condensed version, see The Battle of Kursk: Myths and Reality by Michael J. Licari.
Juan Pujol Garcia. I can't recommend reading this enough.
What are you interested in? Do you have a time period or topic that interests you? You seem pretty keen on Christian history, so there are a few books that discuss that I could recommend you.
Or, I could recommend you books that talk more about the craft of history, the practice of the discipline. These books would (hopefully) show that history really isnt one big fixed thing, but a series of smaller, but interconnected, debates about what really happened.
Or, would are you interested in the classics, which have historical significance?
The trick with all this is to figure out what you really like. There are 10,000 history books out there that will put you to sleep, I promise you. Weve gotta figure out which ones wont. So, what interests you?
If you want to learn more about him, I would highly recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Agent-Garbo-Brilliant-Eccentric-Tricked/dp/0544035011
What's your favourite World War II book??? Mine is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's a 1,300 page book but it's everything you need about the Second WW.
I suggest the following:
The first half of Taking Up the Runes by Diana L. Paxson
A Pocket Guide to Runes by Ben Waggoner (full disclosure, Ben is my kindred brother/co-host on Heathen History)
Rudiments of Runelore by Stephen Pollington
Every liberal with a " or bust" attitude should read this book.
The book dissuaded me of that " or bust" proclivity.
Speaking on Germany, Hitler and other leading Nazis made a big point of not having women work outside the home to assist in the war effort as well as maintaining the idea that life would "continue as normal" even when it was apparent that life was anything but during the early stages of the war.
This meant mainly that German industry was not completely focused on assisting the German war effort, and the parts that were focused on war production drew heavily upon foreign and slave labor pools in order to free up German men for military service. Even then, Germany didn't officially enter a state of Total War until early 1943, and measures were still taken to ensure German women weren't prioritized to assist in the war industry when their assistance could have been useful. Slave and foreign labor were seen as the chief sources of labor to be capitalized before women were even considered a potential source of labor. This obviously began to change as the war closed in on Germany's borders.
Whereas in WWI, the German government did not have nearly as many reservations about employing German women in the war effort. I cannot speak as specifically about German industry and output during WWI (I'm not as well read there), but I do know that women were called upon to work in the industry without nearly as many reservations than the Nazi government had during WWII.
Further reading:
Germany At War by Richard Evans
Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
The End by Ian Kershaw
There's a great book about Juan Pujol Garcia called Agent Garbo that tells his story in further detail, which is where I first heard about him. Guy was a fucking legend.
I think TIK is writing a paper/making a video about Stalingrad.
And there is Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative. I didn't read yet, but David Glantz wrote a positive review on.
Maybe read some books on the subject by actual historians. I can recommend this one, which coincidentally has a whole chapter on this subject i.e. the Red Army atrocities.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Downfall-1945-Antony-Beevor/dp/0141032391/ref=lp_10960071_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510165401&sr=1-1
In his book Elves, Wights, and Trolls, Stephen Grundy talks about how particularly difficult it is to rid oneself of ill-willing house wights. Things that normally do well warding against malevolent wights such as iron, fire, trollwort, rowan wood, red ribbon, drumming, holy water, etc., have little use against house-wights.
However, he mentions an Old High German charm that was sometimes used against ill-willing house wights:
>Uuola, uuiht, taz tu uueist, taz tu uuiht heizist,
>Taz tu neuueist noh nechanst cheden chnospinci.
Modern German:
"Wohl, Wicht, das Du weißt, das du Wicht heißt,
Das du nicht weißt noch kannst sprechen 'chnospinci'."
Modern English:
"Well, wight, do you know that you hight 'wight',
That you do not know and cannot say 'chnospinici'."
_____
Whereas 'chnospinici' is a nonsensical word, the wight purportedly becomes angered at its inability to pronounce the word, and departs in a huff. It's possible that 'chnospinici' is actually a Zauberwort, meaning that it has mystical properties instead of just being nonsensical.
I think this book might be of use to you. It can answer a lot of the basic German questions in a concise and useful manner: https://www.amazon.com/German-Longsword-Study-Guide-Farrell/dp/099267350X
Another good option is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-German-Longsword-Christian-Tobler/dp/1937439232/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1937439232&pd_rd_r=H7DC6Z3YA6PFJ4ZVN4YT&pd_rd_w=VbAS2&pd_rd_wg=PNWII&psc=1&refRID=H7DC6Z3YA6PFJ4ZVN4YT
I say this as basically it seems that you are looking for a starting point into German longsword. The question you ask is not quite so simple as listing off techniques. This is one of the main parts of fencing with the longsword and honestly can take up chapters to talk about properly. The above books have most of the options listed, as well as ideas on how to implement them. They should be able to help you.
IMO, the best book for beginners for longsword is Guy Windsor's https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Art-Arms-Vol-Longsword/dp/9526819322/ (and his older book https://www.amazon.com/Swordsmans-Companion-Guy-Windsor/dp/9526793404/ is good too). He does Italian longsword; for German, you could try Tobler's https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-German-Longsword-Christian-Tobler/dp/1937439232/
Of course, there is plenty of stuff online, too.
Reading Antony Beever's Berlin he states that Russian tanks would regularly drive through columns of fleeing German civilian refugees. Not entirely surprising considering the hatred they had for the Germans, following the nature of the war on the Eastern Front, but crimes nonetheless.
I recommend reading this book. It's a fantastic (and true!) story about how much damage is caused by Holocaust deniers, and the great lengths actual historians must go through in order to repair the damage caused by people who believe and espouse such nonsense.
Hi tl7lmt,
I highly recommend "The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich" by William L Shirer. It's by far the most comprehensive book I've read on WW2, including from about 1920's onwards, even before Hitler joined the Nazi party.
Shirer was actually in Germany pre-war as well, so a lot of the pre-war writing was first-hand.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-Third-Reich/dp/1451642598
Cheers.
Hitler wasn't a Christian; he was a pagan who worshipped Wagner and the "old gods" and wanted to restore what he saw as a heroic (i.e. militaristic) conception of Man. The torchlight processionals, the secret rituals, were all profoundly anti-Christian. Hitler actively prosecuted Christian churches until "Hitler's Pope," Pius XII, cut a deal with him - both equally cynical in what they hoped to attain from it. Christian youth groups were banned and disbanded and their members forced into the Hitler Youth instead.
See Unholy Alliance for Hitler's fascination with the occult, and The Third Reich in Power for this:
>Rosenberg declared in 1938, since young people were now almost completely under the control of the Hitler Youth and the Nazified education system, the hold of the Church over its congregation would be broken and the Catholic and Confessing churches would disappear from the life of the people in their present form. It was a sentiment from which Hitler himself did not dissent.
Or this from the same book:
>In July 1935...a speaker told a meeting of the Nazi Students' League in Bernau: 'One is either a Nazi or a committed Christian.' Christianity, he said, 'promotes the dissolution of racial ties and of the national racial community...We must repudiate the Old and the New Testaments, since for us the Nazi idea alone is decisive. For us there is only one example, Adolf Hitler and no one else."
The "cult of personality" makes no room for any other person, living or dead, at the top of the adoration pyramid. Hitler used religion as he saw fit to gain power and respectability, but had as much religion in him as our modern right wingers with their "do as I say not as I do, I've had my fun and I've had yours too" approach to morality.
What do you mean ? the Nazi's nearly got the bomb - before the USA/UK.
It was sabotaged from people working on the project (and details sent to the allies)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heisenbergs-War-Secret-History-German/dp/0306810115
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/28/1310235/-Why-the-Nazis-Never-Built-an-Atomic-Bomb
This one is pretty darn good, and damn dark in places.
Y'all should read this book:
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
But don't be stoned when you do, the paranoia will get you. Hitler was considered a hapless buffoon (and was) right up until he wasn't.
I wouldn't consider myself off-topic by far at all.
The deficiency was that though the fascist industrial base could build tanks which were of paper wonderful, they failed to even build enough tanks to replenish losses. The Wehrmacht was a force designed to win quick victories against opponents in Western Europe, where the distance between starting line and objective isn't very far, and there is a large and robust transportation network to rely on.
In Barbarossa alone, during the depths of the first period of war, when the Fascists had the strategic initiative, the Nazi losses were staggering. 18 Pz.Div had below 50 operational tanks by mid-august, and by 9 November only 14 tanks.^1 18th Pz.Div's problems did not stop there, as Bartov continues.
>Where?
In that the Great Patriotic War involved a great deal of armored warfare, and the Nazis were unable to fight and win it.
>What was a failure?
They couldn't build tanks that were good enough in large enough numbers to make a difference, and furthermore were out fought and out fought at the operational level, where the fighting quality of individual tanks becomes less important than the structural organization of the military.
>Fast nimble tanks?
Which they used astoundingly at Kursk to get all of, what, 8-10km in the North and 35km in the south? Even if their tanks were tactically mobile, such as the Panther was when it worked, they were not able to turn this into operational victory after Kursk.
>Armament capable of eliminating any opposition?
Which is nice, so long as the tank is in a position to shoot at other things. But each tank is only in one place at a time, and so you can't possess strength everywhere on the front. Combine that with the excellent Soviet reconnaissance capability and you get operations like Uranus, where they broke through the poorly equipped Italian and Romanian forces flanking Stalingrad and encircled an entire army, one of the greatest maneuvers of all time!
>Armour that was a problem even for the best allied guns?
Other than the point I made above, I don't have much to say to this, they did build well armored tanks! Even if they were impractical and didn't make much sense. See: Pz.Tiger Ausf.B, which had lots of armor and a stonking big gun, but they only made what, 450 of? To use on a front stretching from Leningrad to the Black Sea?
>The best optics of war?
If you'd watch the video, Moran an actual tanker explains the fallacy of this statement. The Germans may have had the best glass, but not the best optics, by virtue of poor arrangement and positioning.
>Vehicles that could fight outnumbering opponent and survive the engagement?
The Sherman did that fine at Arracourt. But to go on a little from here, why should you fight outnumbered? Isn't this a symptom of a greater strategic failing that these vehicles are fighting outnumbered? Shouldn't the mighty German economy, in addition to the bulk of conquered Western Europe, be able to produce a well designed tank in enough numbers to fight on equal terms? The Soviets certainly were able economize their production, they reduced man-hours required to produce a T-34 1941g/1942g by something like 1/3-1/2. link
Or perhaps indicative of the great Soviet strength, their ability to concentrate forces so as to have an overwhelming localized advantage while remaining at a far less decisive correlation of forces throughout the front? Certainly, this is an impressive feat of generalship, being able to do more with less.
>Or perhaps you aim at the fact that German tanks often lacked parts they were intended to have?
Not sure what you mean here, but my area of expertise isn't rivet counting, it's operational maneuver warfare. I don't know what wish list the Nazis had for their tanks, because I don't really care what their imagined super tanks were. You fight the war with the weapons you have, and that you can build. They didn't have enough tanks, and couldn't build enough to alter this difference.
>Where is a design flaw here?
Generally the failing to build a sufficient number of tanks which were able to function well enough to win the war. But, of course, tanks aren't the only thing which wins wars, generalship wins wars, and in that the Nazis were outmatched in theory before the war began, and in practice from 1943 onward.
>I always though it is a common knowledge that apart from Russians the allies had a prognostic ability of a fortune teller. That it took Russians a great deal of time before they were able to put already developed theory in useful practical form or even such basic things like coordinating support units to keep the tanks rolling.
The Red Army learned consistently and rapidly from its various mistakes, correcting them rather quickly. For example, the trial-and-error of creating a better armored unit organization which resulted in the 1943 model Tank Army, as orchestrated by Fedorenko, which served as the base model for further tank armies as the war continued, but which came out of the various mechanized corps concepts which were in service from 1941. This, of course, was all based on the theories of Tukachevsky, both deep operations and the need for continuous operations, which were far beyond the old-school Prussian ways of the Whermacht. The Nazis may have fought and won battles, though they increasingly were unable to win them as the war progressed and Soviets learned, but they were unable to translate this into winning the war. This truly is the ultimate test of a military, and of the society it is part of. The Soviet victory over Nazi Germany was total, and its peace Carthaginian, splitting Germany for 45 years among the 4 allied powers.
The Nazi and Soviet ways of war, and their entire societies, were put to the test, and the Nazis were found wanting. Their ideas, concepts, and vehicles were proved largely unsuitable in modern warfare. They tried to destroy the Soviet Army in one large operational maneuver in 1941, and yet they failed to understand both the immense soviet ability to generate forces very rapidly through the cadre and reserve systems, and that in the age of mass armies decision cannot be forced in a single operation. The Soviets understood this, it was Tukachevsky who explained it! Once Stalin realized his generals were competent and let them fight the war, they continually attempted to put into practice their theories of deep operations and continuous operations. From 1943 to the end of the war the Soviets unleashed a near continuous series of operations where they advanced hundreds of kilometers at a time and destroyed large Nazi forces.
>Is also the level at which the biggest successes of Wehrmacht were achieved. Is where schwerpunkt, envelopment and exploitation enabled Germans to fight enemies much bigger and better equipped than them.
Yes, but their concept of operations was found wanting, especially by Kursk. They were unable to translate their style of warfare, designed around fighting in Western Europe, to Eastern Europe and the European Soviet Union. Citino explains this far better than I could in this lecture
>Not sure if you heard about the fact that Germans critically lacked fuel from 1941 onwards. Assault on Stalingrad began with almost empty petrol tanks. Oil required for the success of the Wacht am Rhein/Ardennes offensive was within the enemy to be captured. Germans weren't encircled repeatedly because they were bad at planning but simply because they had nothing to move with. This is a reoccurring theme not only on the Eastern front. At El Alamein Rommel had fuel for literally one single defensive manoeuvre to counter the British assault.
This counts as being outfought. What sort of incompetent fights a war without petrol? OR continually builds larger and more fuel intensive tanks with a fuel shortage. This is emblematic of the failures of the German military. Even then, so much of their supply apparatus relied on horses that this is a bit of a red herring. 77 of their infantry divisions in barbarossa were horse drawn between the rail-head and front. As materiel losses mounted during the war this ratio only increased.
Furthermore, in operations like Vistula-Oder they certainly were out-fought. Or in Operation Kutuzov.
I would suggest you read the revised (2015) edition of Glantz's When Titans Clashed. It's the most balanced and authoritative general history of the Nazi-Soviet war to date. Or Bartov's Hitler's Army, or Citino's series starting with the German Way of War, through Death of the Wehrmacht, and on to his books on 1943 and 44+45. They should likely dispel a lot of this mythologized view of the Nazi military you have.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Titans-Clashed-Stopped-Studies/dp/0700621210/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0057CZ560/
https://www.amazon.com/German-Way-War-Thirty-Studies/dp/0700616241
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Wehrmacht-German-Campaigns-Studies/dp/0700617914
https://www.amazon.com/Wehrmacht-Retreats-Fighting-Modern-Studies/dp/0700623434/
https://www.amazon.com/Wehrmachts-Last-Stand-Campaigns-1944-1945/dp/0700624945/
****
Glantz, David M and Jonathan M. House. When Titans Clashed: How The Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 384 pages, available as paperback, hardback, and ebook.
This is one of the best single-volume operational histories of the Nazi-Soviet War. It is not as in-depth as, say, Erickson's duology, but it's relatively quick and easy to read. Glantz is still the English-language historian par excellence of the operational aspect of the Nazi-Soviet War and of Soviet doctrine and theory, though he is unfortunately semi-retired now. Jonathan House's coauthorship saves When Titans Clashed from the worst of the usual criticisms of Glantz's writing, namely his dry "I have copy-pasted and translated this section of a Russian field manual" style.
​
Smelser, Ronald M., and Edward J. Davies. The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 342 pages, hardback or paperback.
I recommend this book as a companion to Titans, as the two of them dismantle many Western assumptions & myths about the so-called "Eastern Front," albeit from different angles. Where Titans presents a less Wehrmacht-centric perspective on the purely military aspects of that conflict and sheds light on the actual military skill of the Red Army, The Myth of the Eastern Front explains the origins of many of those assumptions and is an important historiographic piece.
​
Merridale, Catherine. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. New York: Picador, 2006. 462 pages, paperback, hardback, or audiobook.
Ivan's War is a social history of the Red Army, told partly through interviews with veterans and civilians and partly through memoirs, and contextualized by improved access to archives during the post-Soviet, pre-current-unpleasantness era. It is less academically rigorous than, say, Reese's Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925-1941, but more approachable and quite compelling. If you're wondering what it was like to be an anonymous frontovik in the wartime Red Army, this is a good place to start. By dispelling the implicitly dehumanizing and racist narratives of the largely Wehrmacht-influenced prevailing Western literature on the Nazi-Soviet War, Ivan's War also rounds out a sort of mythbusting trilogy with Titans and Myth of the Eastern Front.
​
Continuing the World War II theme, Robert Citino's Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (448 pages), The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 (440 pages), and The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 (632 pages) are, as a trilogy, a good look into the institutional culture of the German officer corps. Citino posits that, in addition to the distortive effects of Nazism on that culture, the officer corps embodied a long tradition of a particular way of war - short, sharp, lively wars of strategic preemption and the pursuit of the rapid defeat by encirclement of enemy armies - that proved unsuited for modern industrialized total war, and ultimately contributed to the Reich's defeat. Citino is quite readable; his prose is actually *enjoyable* which can be quite rare for military history.
​
Glantz, David M. Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle. New York: Frank Cass, 1991. 320 pages, paperback.
Returning to Glantz and the Soviet focus, this is a good surface-level (but satisfactorily deep) introduction to the history, theory, and practice of the Soviet concept of operational art - the intermediate level of war between tactics and strategy, involving the use of large formations like armies to achieve coordinated tactical successes, the sum of which contribute to strategic victory. It is, as I mentioned before, rather dry, but compared to some of Glantz's other stuff it's still perfectly readable. In my opinion, this text is an indispensable primer for understanding how the Red Army expected to fight at various points in its history, but also the roots of modern Russian theories of war. It is unfortunately a little expensive, however. I think Glantz might have long-form essays floating around on dtic.mil that summarize some of the book's content but I'm not sure.
​
Ferriter, Diarmaid. A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-1923. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2017. 528 pages, paperback.
A departure from the rest of the list, I really like this book as a survey of the Irish Revolution and the beginnings of the IRA. It covers military matters, but mostly social and political matters, and for that reason alone I think it's a good introduction to the (arguably much more important) broader & less technical-tactical parts of military history. The first ten chapters cover the historiography of the Revolution, and a few chapters in the last third of the book discuss memory and how different communities have constructed different histories of the Revolution. These sections helped me, as a student of military history, to learn to look beyond the pure battlefield matters and examine the impact of war on society as a whole, because war is nothing if not a social phenomenon.
There isn't much to debate on this, although knowing the history of Molotov makes it quite a bit more ridiculous that our Governor hasn't a clue about a word that is less than 100 years old and has significance not only as a weapon of war, but also one that is significant as a name that was a politically charged manifest of government overreach. The irony is thick with this.
I thought it fun to spread the info on Molotov. I finished Shirer's book on Nazi Germany and I am currently on Manchester's third book on Winston S. Churchill where they cover the political ramifications of WW2 that has many valuable insights that the Governor could learn from. Everyone will shy away from Hitler references, but they shouldn't. If the shoe fits, it should be worn. Our dumb governor has many common traits with Hitler, but that isn't specific to Hitler as it is specific to many power hungry politicians.
Winston Churchill wrote an amazing set of books, the first volume is The Birth of Britain and it's a great read. It has a very unique prose, very readable though, and very entertaining if you are into history (he writes in a quasi-historical/story telling/autobiographical/biographical tone, sometimes all in the some paragraph). You can find these books reasonably cheap if you search around.
There is also an abridged version, and there's no shame in reading it (it's about 1500 pages shorter). As well known as England is, I guarantee you will be floored at just how much turmoil that Island has seen.
If the OP is interested in more about Irving and what it means to be a holocaust denier, I would recommend Lying About Hitler by Richard Evans and the book that lead to the trial it covers, Denying the Holocaust by Deborah Lipstadt
Love it, thanks so much for this. I've been obsessed with the Bell ever since I read Joseph P. Farrell's book SS Brotherhood of the Bell.
I'd love to get my hands on Igor Witkowski's The Truth About the Wunderwaffe but boy is that book hard to come by.
Fighting with the German longsword by Christian Tobler
https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-German-Longsword-Christian-Tobler/dp/1937439232
There are a bunch of books published by Chivalry Bookshelf like the one above.
Some can be found at abe books as well as the usual amazon search.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bsi=0&ds=20&kn=chivalry%20bookshelf&sortby=17&prevpage=2
I'll reiterate what others have said about Clements. He is an important figure in the history of modern swordfighting but he also wasn't a diligent student of the arts when he was putting out books and videos back then. A lot has been learnt since then.
It's called a book:
http://www.amazon.com/Demolishing-Myth-Prokhorovka-Operational-Narrative/dp/1906033897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320132178&sr=8-1
If you want to learn about how Stalin and the Soviet Union absorbed Eastern Europe after World War II, I highly recommend the author's book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956.
Wages of destruction by Adam Tooze
History of the Third Reich Series which include:
The Coming of the Third Reich
The Third Reich in Power
The Third Reich at War
Rise and fall of the Third Reich
Thats very good reading material right there.
Most of my knowledge regarding the matter is European, so I'm going to give a list of my favorites regarding the European / African front.
To get the German perspective of the war, I'd recommend:
I have a few battle-specific books I enjoy too:
Now if you want to play games, Hearts of Iron series is great (someone recommended the Darkest Hour release of the game. Allows you to play historical missions based on historical troop layouts, or play the entire war as a nation. Historical events are incorporated into the game. While you'll rarely get a 100% accurate game as it is abstracted, it is an excellent way to see what challenges faced the nations of the time. You could play as Russia from 1936 and prepare yourself for the eventual German invasion. Or maybe you decide to play as Germany, and not invade Russia. But will Russia invade you when they are stronger? Will warn you: It does not have a learning curve. As with almost all Paradox Interactive games, it is a learning cliff.
There are collections of these folk beliefs but I don't think any of them deal with the pre-Christian origins of them. You might benefit from taking a look at material regarding landvaettir. I also strongly recommend Elves, Wights, and Trolls as a REALLY good place to look into this important, and sadly neglected, side of our faith. It's been a while since I read Teutonic Religion, but I do believe that it has some information on veneration of wights in it as well.
The reality is that our faith, our way of life, is very broad and there is a lot of different areas for people to focus on. Americans are most strongly oriented towards the gods of Asgard and Vanaheim, as this forum clearly shows. The Icelanders, as /u/Argit has shown us, are much more pantheistic and the landvaettir play a very strong role in their expressions. There are other variations as well, so if this is what appeals to you most, explore it.
I'd recommend the book "Heisenberg's War" for a look at the relationship between Nazis, science and nuclear weapons (spoiler alert: Heisenberg stopped them from getting 'em). https://www.amazon.com/Heisenbergs-War-Secret-History-German/dp/0306810115
I agree with you and the intelligence known by the US was that Germany was trying to develop a nuclear weapon. So in a way, it was a race to win.
EDIT: Here is a book and wiki on their ongoing nuclear work and ambitions.
http://www.amazon.com/Heisenbergs-War-Secret-History-German/dp/0306810115
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_energy_project
I'd really recommend this book by Thomas Powers. It's well-documented (and I tend to agree with his argument, just because I believe that Heisenberg's virtue in his work forged his ethics.) I also think this was more of the subtext of why Walter White went by "Heisenberg" as an alias, referencing this exact role.
The Germans did it.. It worked to a certain extent. I fear you're right, and it might be necessary.
I'd add the books:
Making Gay History
Out of the Past
The Men With the Pink Triangle
And the documentaries:
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Celluloid Closet
Firstly: it's four books:
eBay? That's where I got them! It seems you can also get them from this online shop devoted to Churchill's books. Amazon also has some copies available.
It also appears that there are ebook versions available now.
Enjoy!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Reich-at-War/dp/0143116711
If you want another good book about a pirate, I couldn't put this one down - http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/diana-preston/a-pirate-of-exquisite-mind-the-life-of-william-dampier-9780552772105.aspx
https://www.amazon.com/SS-Brotherhood-Bell-Nasas-Majic-12/dp/1931882614 Joseph P Farrell has a great book on the bell!
Ok some terms you want to know if you are looking into Asatru.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unverified_personal_gnosis
Wiki on Asatru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81satr%C3%BA_in_the_United_States
Shows the three subsets
http://heathenry.wikia.com/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Heathenry
Vanir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86sir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn
and now a book, it goes into detail about the Jotuns
http://www.amazon.com/Elves-Wights-Trolls-Practice-Heathenry/dp/0595421652/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420778200&sr=1-1&keywords=elves+wights+and+trolls
some other terms you will find
Northern Tradition(this will create a hellaballoo)
http://grumpylokeanelder.tumblr.com/post/55104170499/question-is-there-any-difference-between-asatru
actually knows a bunch of history lore, so lurk.
This actually contains a lot of terms you will want to know about after you do reading. http://grumpylokeanelder.tumblr.com/frp (yes it will probably make asatru grumpy I'm referencing a grumpy Lokean, but again he knows his lore so yanno.)
Rokkatru
http://grumpylokeanelder.tumblr.com/post/42877451550/question-jotnar-and-rokkatru
It has the history and shows the grumbles about it.
This is link that apparently goes over 101 stuff on Polytheism, with links in it. IT also describes wth a God Phone is, a term you will be familiar with later.
LEt me know if any of this has been any help. I'm going to find links to describe the different versions of Polytheism. Hard, soft etc.
If you are looking for something about WWII and want to keep it as simple as possible I recommend Antony Beevors new book called The second world war.
He has also written some other books on different WWII topics if you really want to know all the details:
I have them all and I really recommend them if you want to keep things simple yet informative.
This is his story.
For a good academic/historical text https://www.amazon.com/Rudiments-Runelore-Stephen-Pollington/dp/1898281491
For divination and the like this is a good starter text https://www.amazon.com/Futhark-Handbook-Magic-Edred-Thorsson/dp/0877285489
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs is kind of close to a no-brainer for herbs.
The best advice for runes from the runemaster that taught me was to ignore the meanings and definitions floating around out there and look at historical material, for example the rune poems, and decide for yourself what each rune means. It's more work but gives you a more intimate understanding of the runes. If you would prefer a reference work that provides meanings for each rune, there are dozens of books out there. Or just buy a set of runes; most come with such a reference. If you want to put in the extra effort, Stephen Pollington's Rudiments of Runelore is an excellent and academically-oriented resource.
Good luck!
>We Germans are more likely to laugh in your face if you say that because we know what fascism actually looks like. You're a million miles from it.
Looking at timeline of the rise of the Nazis within the Weimar Republic, we're really a few years from it if the same mistakes are repeated.
You should read up on your own history; I recommend this book: The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
We're a lot closer than people like to think.
Then again, people like to think that it can't happen here.
> I believe it was THE largest battle/operation to ever take place in the history of man.
Kursk seems to be one of the most inaccurately portrayed battles of WWII, and there's many popular myths about it. Please see The Battle of Kursk: Myths and Reality and Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative.
"Unfortunately, knowledge of the Battle of Kursk is only just now being improved. Despite a growing number of good analyses available to the public, the myths of Kursk are hard to put to rest. This essay will hopefully help this cause."
If you haven't check out-
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0892541709/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1484214739&sr=8-11&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=peter+levenda
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0826414095/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1484214739&sr=8-9&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=peter+levenda
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0892542101/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1484214739&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=peter+levenda&dpPl=1&dpID=41XBwydxaFL&ref=plSrch
He goes in pretty deep detail about all this kinda stuff and it's well sourced.
I am very much an amateur historian, I'm afraid - I even go so far as to use my girlfriend's access to academia, as I don't have the same privileges myself.
With that said, Joachim Whaley's two-volume history on Germany and Holy Roman Empire is beyond compare. I find his argument that the HRE was in a constant state of reform especially fascinating. Beyond that, he has an extensive bibliography of his own that might help you out. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful myself.
https://www.amazon.com/Germany-Holy-Roman-Empire-Maximilian/dp/0199688826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484256159&sr=8-1&keywords=the+holy+roman+empire+whaley
This is part one of a two part set. I have not gotten through it all but it is a good textbook.
I haven't read these yet but they are on my list: Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples.
https://www.amazon.com/History-English-Speaking-Peoples-One--Abridgement/dp/1616082402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465662786&sr=8-1&keywords=history+of+the+english+speaking+peoples+churchill
The entire history is not specific to your period, but does cover it.
The Nazi International. Read Joseph P. Farrell's books. You'll love them.
https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-International-Postwar-Control-Conflict/dp/1931882932/
https://www.amazon.com/REICH-BLACK-SUN-First-Last/dp/1931882398/
https://www.amazon.com/Roswell-Reich-Connection-Joseph-Farrell/dp/1935487051/
https://www.amazon.com/Saucers-Swastikas-Psyops-Civilization-Psychological/dp/1935487752/
https://www.amazon.com/SS-Brotherhood-Bell-Nasas-Majic-12/dp/1931882614/
Elves, Wights, and Trolls
The Tradition of Household Spirits
Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices
Theodish Houserites
Become familiar with reddit's search function, it will save you a lot of time! This sub has been around for a few years now, so there are plenty of very helpful posts archived.
>There’s a great book about this called “Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany”
>
>https://www.amazon.com/Exorcising-Hitler-Occupation-Denazification-Germany/dp/1608195031
Ooh, good suggestion.
A little bit diffferent, but I'm currently reading (and loving!) Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany by Frederick Taylor. Highly recommend!
Fuckin fantastic questions. Read this book, it has a TON of great answers for you.
https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Curtain-Crushing-Eastern-1944-1956/dp/140009593X
Anything by Anthony Beevor.
I finished Stalingrad and am currently reading Crete and they are two of the best history books I've ever read.
Apparently everything he's done is just as good (a friend highly recommends Berlin but apparently it's as draining as Stalingrad, which was incredibly harrowing to read so I'm going to let a bit of time pass).
Start with the Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans. In those three books you can read about how NSDAP and the nazi ideology came to be, what the the nazis wanted to do and what they did.
No, it's Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, but is the book that you mentioned good?
A book I'm currently reading has some other out of left field theories on JFK assassination, namely that his death was linked to the growing power of of the MIC and the nazi's that were recruited into it, amongst others, post war during operation paper clip.
http://www.amazon.com/The-SS-Brotherhood-Bell-Majic-12/dp/1931882614
I'm a bit late, but this book is fantastic: https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Curtain-Crushing-Eastern-1944-1956/dp/140009593X
The main center of attention focuses on Poland, but also talks about all of the other countries that were under the Soviet sphere of influence. I highly recommend it.
I found this to be the single best strategic review of the Wehrmacht...
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Wehrmacht-German-Campaigns-Studies/dp/0700617914
Funny enough, there is an Amazon copy you can buy of Hitler's My New Order, because they try to tie it into Trump with parts of the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Order-Collection-Speeches-Adolph-Hitler/dp/4871879089
What I find is hilarious is how much of a terrible job the author does in comparing Trump to Hitler. I know it's an overdone trope but I, as someone who likes Trump and knows a good bit about Hitler, could do a far better job pointing out similarities (or differences). The author does such a terrible job with vague comparisons to "hurr durr, they both attack the free press, they both appeal to populist sentiments", and other such nonsense that's all so shallow.
On a more serious note, a lot of this war rhetoric is for show.
They were doing the exact same thing with North Korea a year or two ago, with the "my nuclear button is bigger than yours".
Don't forget three big deterrents:
Both Russia and China are heavily invested in Venezuela
Many hostile-to-Trump states have zealously endorsed the coup, while many Trump aligned states have denounced it
There has been no sign of mass defections from the Venezuelan army, Maduro is popular, which means US deployed force is unlikely and, if anything, US allies would be expected to provide forces
As another sidenote worth mentioning:
Maduro is being targetted visciously by MSM as an "antisemite" (much like Baathists like Assad and Gadaffi were) because he denounced the "Zionist" role in the coup
>Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro Calls Juan Guaidó "CIA Agent and Zionist" in Interview with Lebanese Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadin
>Buenos Aires, February 14, 2019
>In an interview granted today to the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese media group, Al Mayadin, Nicolás Maduro (pictured) stated: "Juan Guaidó is a CIA agent and serves the interests of the United States and Zionism".
Oooooh, I'm actually not all that familiar with Early Modern Germany, but I think I've found a few books that may help you with the religious, political and military aspects. Some of these books are pretty expensive, so I'd recommend finding a good library or seeing if your local library does inter-library loans with larger libraries. Usually you have to read the books pretty quick, but it saves paying $150 for a book if you're not in a position to do that. Just be sure to take plenty of notes!
I'd also be willing to look at what you've got but, like I said, I may not be as useful as I first thought.
The Reformation: A History
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
The Rise of Modern Warfare: 1618-1815
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
The Witchcraft Sourcebook
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume I
Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600
Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany
Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany
Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms
He Is the Sun, She Is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life
The Lesser Key of Solomon
The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570
The best book that I've read on Nazi occultism is Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda:
http://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Alliance-History-Involvement-Occult/dp/0826414095
Also, as mentioned by others, there is The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clark
https://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Alliance-History-Involvement-Occult/dp/0826414095
Of course I'll read some books. Perhaps you should do some reading as well. May I make a few suggestions?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226320618/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400034094/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/140009593X/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195051807/
You might want to look elsewhere. This sub, and site, aren't very accepting of Holocaust skepticism.
I'd suggest reading actual books on the subject. Here's some places to start:
https://www.amazon.com/Denying-Holocaust-Growing-Assault-Memory/dp/0452272742
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0520216121/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5DEFX2BVQA1NXDGX1XPE
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0465021530/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PK9GJG86KSCWJVVXB91M
Or visit /r/Holocaust for some community based skepticism
Thanks for the answer!
Since you seem to know a lot about this subject, would this book be a good starting point in learning about the HRE?
My New Order is a collection of Hitler's speeches with extensive annotations of how propaganda works, and analysis of Trump's speeches show parallels to Hitler's speeches. The summary of the book on Amazon states:
>It can be seen that there are clear similarities between the speeches of Trump and the speeches of Hitler. Here are examples: They repeat themselves constantly, saying the same things over and over again. They never admit they have made a mistake nor do they ever take anything back. To any criticism, they respond by insults and name calling. They use a low form of language, with simple sentences even a person with the lowest level of education or with no education at all can understand. Another contrast is the sheer volume of words. Hitler gave a thousand speeches and spoke millions of words. Hitler communicated almost entirely through his speeches. Hitler's speeches were long, usually one and a half to two hours long...
It goes on. But please read the top customer review by Master Hahn. It is illuminating. This is just for your knowledge. I'm not trying to convince you that Trump is the new Hitler because Trump is Trump. But I do believe he learned from the propaganda of Hitler to reach the highest office in the land.
https://www.amazon.com/Order-Collection-Speeches-Adolph-Hitler/dp/4871879089
> For example, the NSDAP had nationalist policies but at the same time economic socialist policies while running against the National and Socialist Parties.
The Nazi Party was significantly to the right of the established mainstream German parties. Part of the reason they rose to prominence was support from the center-right party that thought it could control the Nazis in a coalition government.
Hitler had come up with his own definition of socialism. They were social darwinists and only supported things like unemployment in the worst of the depression. The welfare state was antithetical to their ideology.
> Hitler ran on a message of hope and unity (put into the political concept of 1930's Germany).
Hitler ran on the idea that "the left" had betrayed Germany and its military, and that he could make Germany great again. He appealed to rural Germans and demonized cities like Berlin and people of "foreign races". That's not hope and unity.
Again, the Nazis never managed to get more than 38% of the vote.
>it has given rise to far right Parties.
Like it would have done for Germany's Nazis, as a new far-right German party.
This book might help clear things up for you.
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb: http://www.amazon.com/Heisenbergs-War-Secret-History-German/dp/0306810115
Read it last year and really liked it.
A brief search on Amazon yielded these four books -
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 and what looks like a massive, multi-volume tome:
Link 4
But just to start, check out this Wikipedia article, its in-text links and the external links.
not necessarily from german viewpoints, but a few of my favorite reads from my collection.
Ordinary men - by Christopher Browning
Life Unworthy Life - by James M Glass
My Father's Keeper - by Stephen & Norbert Lebert
Children of the Flames - by Lucette matalon Lagnado
Between Silk and Cyanide - by Leo Marks
The Men with the Pink Triangle - by Heinz Heger
I'll add more as i think and consult my bookshelves.
Trump read "My New Order" nightly according to Ivana but Donald isn't all Republicans (thank gawd).
https://www.amazon.com/Order-Collection-Speeches-Adolph-Hitler/dp/4871879089
One of the best would be a series of books about the Wehrmacht/Bewegungskrieg by Dr. Robert Citino, from the University of North Texas, formerly Eastern Michigan University, where I had him as a professor. The guy was/is an electric instructor, and I'm pretty sure was, at one point, the highest rated professor on ratemyprofessors.com.
Some of his books to check out:
The German War of War
Death of the Wehrmacht
> and "no" is a pretty childish answer
Well I was trying to be succinct and let the sources speak for themselves. Your point, as I took it, was that the existence of Kurdistan was not something that was really up for discussion and the only reason I'd think it was is because I'm on reddit. When in actual fact, it was far more of a contested issue than it is now, and Churchill's willingness to poison them into submission to our civil service is well known and well documented. Take it or leave it, but I wasn't letting you get away with your crap without at least being corrected.
If you're really interested in learning more about this I'd suggest Churchill's nobel prize winning History of the English Speaking Peoples. He goes into great detail. It's a long book, by a primary source, so you might not like it.
You know what. In fact, here.
https://www.amazon.com/Exorcising-Hitler-Occupation-Denazification-Germany/dp/1608195031
There's a start. Don't try talking about shit you don't know anything about.
Trump kept My New Order, Hitler’s speeches in a cabinet by his bed.
Donald Trump reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed
Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany
Hitler’s Rise to Power Explains Why Republicans Accept Donald Trump
Former CIA Chief Compares Trump’s Border Policies to Nazi Germany
Anne Frank Centre warns of 'alarming parallels' between Trump's America and Hitler's Germany
Donald Trump using Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' playbook, says world expert on Nazi leader
What My Escape From Hitler’s Germany Taught Me About Trump’s America
Fake news isn't a new concept - Hitler called it 'lügenpresse'
How about this quote from 2015?
>Can Trump win? It seems unlikely, especially after this weekend. Of course that is what the media said about a funny-looking spewer of hate with an odd mustache who was dismissed as an awful public speaker and not a serious candidate in Germany in the 1930s
...
We certainly have a more robust political system than 1930s Germany,” they wrote. “But Trump’s racist rhetoric should be viewed in the repugnant tradition of Hitler. When you call all Mexicans rapists, criminals, losers, and the source of disease (that last claim was an old Nazi favorite)
...
Such speech is a classic ploy to sow divisiveness and generate fear. That his message finds a home at all should be alarming. It’s one thing to argue about immigration policies. It’s a completely different thing to condemn an entire ethnic group. (Imagine if Trump were saying these things about Jews?) - source
Interesting comment:
>Given a long time to spread racist drivel to a public nervous about preserving their national identity from �?non-Germans,’ Adolf Hitler won.