Third Reich


The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Inside the Third Reich
Mein Kampf
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis
Travellers in the Third Reich
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to arrest me. Then they accompanied me to the prison across the way. As I entered, an extremely tall SS man leapt in front of me and asked: “Do you have any weapons?” “Why?” I responded. “Do I need any?
Rudolph Herzog, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany

The historian Meike Wöhlert has analyzed and compared the judgments rendered by courts responsible for malicious acts of treason in five cities. Although her research only deals with registered cases and not unofficial ones, the results suggest that the telling of political jokes was a mass phenomenon beyond state control. In 61 percent of official cases, joke-tellers were let off with a warning, alcohol consumption often being cited as an extenuating circumstance. (People who had had one too ma ...more
Rudolph Herzog, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany

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The following blurb is from the back cover. September 1, 1939, the unimaginable happened. WAR! …more
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