Course Bibliography
Week 2: The Death of a Democracy
Bessel, Richard. Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism: The Storm Troopers in Eastern Germany, 1925-1934 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).
Bergerson, Andrew Stuart. Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: The Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).
Campbell, Bruce. The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998).
Childers, Thomas. The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983).
Fischer, Conan. Stormtroopers: A Social, Economic, and Ideological Analysis, 1929-35 (Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1983).
Giles, Geoffrey J. Students and National Socialism in Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
Grant, Thomas D. Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement: Activism, Ideology and Dissolution (London: Routledge, 2004).
Grill, Johnpeter Horst. The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920-1945 (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1983).
Hett, Benjamin Carter. Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Jones, Larry Eugene. Hitler versus Hindenburg: The 1932 Presidential Elections and the End of the Weimar Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Kater, Michael. The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919-1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983).
Koshar, Rudy. Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935 (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1986).
Levine, Herbert S. Hitler's Free City: A History of the Nazi Party in Danzig, 1925-39 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973).
McKale, Donald M. The Nazi Party Courts: Hitler's Management of Conflict in his Movement, 1921-1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974).
Merkl, Peter H. The Making of a Stormtrooper (Boulder: Westview Press, 1987).
Noakes, Jeremy. The Nazi Party in Lower Saxony, 1921-1933 (London: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Panyani, Panikos. The Life and Death of a German Town: Osnabrück from the Weimar Republic to World War II and Beyond (London: Tauris, 2007).
Peukert, Detlev. The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity (New York: Hill & Wang, 1992).
Petropoulos, Jonathan. Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Pridham, Geoffrey. Hitler's Rise to Power: The Nazi Movement in Bavaria, 1923-1933 (London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1973).
Reiche, Eric G. The Development of the SA in Nürnberg, 1922-1934 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Remy, Steven P. The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
Rosenhaft, Eve. Beating the Fascists?: The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929-1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Schumann, Dirk. Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets andthe Fear of Civil War (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009).
Siemens, Daniel. Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
Smaldone, William. Confronting Hitler: German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933 (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009).
Turner, Henry A., Jr. Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 (Reading: Addiswon-Wesley, 1996).
Week 3: Terror, Complicity, and Propaganda
Bankier, David. The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Bergen, Doris L. Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
Black, Peter R. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Ideological Soldier of the Third Reich (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Browder, George C. Hitler's Enforcers: The Gestapo and the SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Browder, George C. Foundations of the Nazi Police State: The Formation of Sipo and SD (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990).
Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Bytwerk, Randall L. Bending Spines: The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004).
Epstein, Katherine. Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Gellately, Robert. The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1935-1945 (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1990).
Gerwarth, Robert, Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
Gordon, Sarah. Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Helmer, Stephen D. Hitler's Berlin: The Speer Plans for Reshaping the Central City (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985).
Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006).
Heschel, Susannah. The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: rinceton University Press, 2008).
Johnson, Eric A. Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
Joshi, Vandana. Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo (1933-45) (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Kallis, Aristotle A. Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Kershaw, Ian. Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-45 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
Koonz, Claudia. The Nazi Conscience (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2003).
Lemmons, Russel. Goebbels and Der Angriff (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994).
Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Lumans, Valdis O. Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
Petropoulos, Jonathan. Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
Petropoulos, Jonathan. The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Redles, David. Hitler's Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation (New York: New York University Press, 2005).
Steinweis, Alan E. Art, Ideology & Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Welch, David. The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda (London: Routledge, 1993).
Week 4: The Promises and Realities of National Socialism
Barkai, Avraham. Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory and Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
Baranowski, Shelley. Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Bellon, Bernard P. Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers, 1903-1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).
Carsten, F.L. The German Workers and the Nazis (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995).
Guenther, Irene. Nazi Chic?: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich (Oxford: Berg, 2004).
Hayes, Peter. Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
James, Harold. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Jaskot, Paul B. The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (London: Routledge, 2000).
Kater, Michael H. Hitler Youth (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Mason, Timothy W. Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Mason, Timothy W. Social Policy in the Third Reich: The Working Class and the National Community (Providence: Berg, 1993).
Overy, R. J. War and Economy in the Third Reich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Ponzio, Alessio. Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015).
Proctor, Robert N. The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Rempel, Gerhard. Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
Reese, Dagmar. Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Schoenbaum, David. Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 (New York : Norton, 1980).
Semmens, Kristin. Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Silverman, Dan P. Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Smelser, Ronald M. Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988).
Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (New York: Viking, 2006).
Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr. General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).
Uekoetter, Frank. The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Week 5: Women in the Fatherland
Guenther, Irene. Nazi Chic?: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich (Oxford: Berg, 2004).
Harvey, Elizabeth. Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
Heineman, Elizabeth D. What Difference does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
Joshi, Vandana. Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo (1933-45) (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987).
Lower, Wendy. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Pauwels, Jacques R. Women, Nazis, and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984).
Pine, Lisa. Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (Oxford: Berg, 1997).
Reese, Dagmar. Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Stephenson, Jill. The Nazi Organisation of Women (London: Croom Helm, 1981).
Stephenson, Jill. Women in Nazi Society (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975).
Week 6: Race, Eugenics, and the Persecution of Jews
Angress, Werner T. Between Fear and Hope: Jewish Youth in the Third Reich (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).
Bajohr, Frank. 'Aryanization' in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany (New York: Berghahn, 2002).
Bankier, David. The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Barkai, Avraham. From Boycott to Annihilation: The Economic Struggle of German Jews, 1933-1943 (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1989).
Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
Burleigh, Michael. Death and Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany c.1900-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Burleigh, Michael and Wolfgang Wippermann. The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Burrin, Philippe. Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust (London: Arnold, 1994).
Bryant, Michael S. Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 (Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2005).
Freeden, Herbert. The Jewish Press in the Third Reich (Providence: Berg Publishers, 1993).
Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews (New York: HarperCollins, 1997).
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (New York: HarperCollins, 2006).
Gordon, Sarah. Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Graml, Hermann. Antisemitism in the Third Reich (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Belknap, 2006).
Kater, Michael H. Doctors under Hitler (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Proctor, Robert N. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Schafft, Gretchen Engle. From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
Schleunes, Karl A. The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933-1939 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970).
Steinweis, Alan. Kristallnacht 1938 (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2009).
Rigg, Bryan Mark. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).
Tent, James F. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).
Weindling, Paul. Health, Race, and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Weiss, Sheila Faith. The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Week 7: The Home Front: Conflict and Consensus in Wartime
Baranowski, Shelley. The Confessing Church, Conservative Elites, and the Nazi State (Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1986).
Beck, Earl R. Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986).
Charman, T. C. The German Home Front 1939-45 (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989).
Fritz, Stephen G. Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004).
Hoffmann, Peter. The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996).
Hamerow, Theodore. On the Road to Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler (Cambridge: Belknap, 1998).
Kitchen, Martin. Nazi Germany at War (London: Longman, 1995).
Mierzejewski, Alfred C. The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).
Mommsen, Hans. Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance under the Third Reich (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003).
Overy, R. J. War and Economy in the Third Reich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Overy, R. J. Why the Allies Won (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
Reynaud, Michel and Sylvie Graffard. The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933-1945 (New York: Cooper Square Press: 2001).
Stephenson, Jill. Hitler's Home Front: Württemberg Under the Nazis (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006).
Stoltzfus, Nathan. Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001).
Yelton, David K. Hitler's Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).
Week 8: War and Barbarization: Experiences at the Front
Beorn, Waitman Wade. Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
Biess, Frank. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Fritz, Stephen G. Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004).
Fritz, Stephen G. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995).
Fritz, Stephen G. Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011).
Harrisville, David A. The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021).
Müller, Rolf-Dieter,Hitler's Wehrmacht, 1935-1945 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016).
Müller, Rolf-Dieter and Gerd Ueberschär, Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945: A Critical Assessment (New York: Berghahn, 1997).
Neitzel, Sönke and Harald Welzer. Soldaten: The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs (New York: Knopf, 2012).
Rigg, Bryan Mark. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).
Wette, Wolfram. The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Willems, Baastian. Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2021).
Yelton, David K. Hitler's Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).
Week 9: Ordinary Men or Willing Executioners?
Allen, Michael Thad. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
Aly, Götz. "Final solution": Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews (London: Arnold, 1999).
Aly, Götz. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).
Aly, Götz and Susanne Heim. Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
Beorn, Waitman Wade. Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (New York: Knopf, 1991).
Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998).
Browning, Christopher R. Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Browning, Christopher R. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Burleigh, Michael. German Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945 (New York: Aaron Asher Books, 1992).
Housden, Martyn. Hans Frank: Lebensraum and the Holocaust (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Johnson, Eric A. and Karl-Heinz Reuband. What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany -- An Oral History (Cambridge: Basic Books, 2005).
Langerbein, Helmut. Hitler's Death Squads: The Logic of Mass Murder (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003).
Lower, Wendy. Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
Lozowick, Yaacov. Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil (London: Continuum, 2000).
Matthäus, Jürgen. War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield/USHMM, 2014).
Westermann, Edward B. Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005).
Week 10: The “Final Solution”
Bartov, Omer. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (New York: Simon & Shuster, 2018).
Browning, Christopher R. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Browning, Christopher. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp (New York: Norton, 2010).
Burrin, Philippe. Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust (London: Arnold, 1994).
Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt. Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present (New York: Norton, 1996).
Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Gruner, Wolf. Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Heberer, Patricia. Children During the Holocaust (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield/USHMM, 2014).
Huberband, Shimon. Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1987).
Langbein, Hermann. People in Auschwitz (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Lewy, Guenter. The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Paulsson, Gunnar S. Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945 (New Have: Yale University Press, 2002).
Rubinstein, William D. The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (London: Routledge, 1997).
Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).