Bibliography of Nazi Germany

This is a list of books about Nazi Germany, the state that existed in Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party). It also includes some important works on the development of Nazi imperial ideology, totalitarianism, German society during the era, the formation of anti-Semitic racial policies, the post-war ramifications of Nazism, along with various conceptual interpretations of the Third Reich.

Surveys, general and comparative studies, and reference works Abel, Theodore. The Nazi Movement. New York: Atherton, 1966. Arad, Yitzhak, ed. The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. Jerusalem and New York: Yad Vashem and Macmillan, 1990. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Inc., 1973. Aschheim, Steven E. Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Aycoberry, Pierre. The Nazi Question. An Essay on the Interpretations of National Socialism 1922–1975. New York, Pantheon, 1981. Bachrach, Susan D. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000. Baranowski, Shelley, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian Szejnmann, eds. A Companion to Nazi Germany. Malden, MD: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. Bascomb, Neal. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013. Beaumont, Maurice, et al. The Third Reich. New York: Praeger, 1955. Bendersky, Joseph W. A History of Nazi Germany. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1985. Benz, Wolfgang. A Concise History of the Third Reich. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Bessel, Richard, ed. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Betz, Werner. “The National-Socialist Vocabulary.” In The Third Reich, edited by Maurice Baumont, John Fried, and Edmond Vermeil, 784–796. New York: Frederick Praeger, 1955. Biddle, Wayne. Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German Dictatorship; The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism; New York, Praeger 1970. Breitman, Richard, et al. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 2004. Brissaud André. The Nazi Secret Service. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1974. Broszat, Martin and Horst Moeller, eds. Das Dritte Reich. Herrschaftsstruktur und Geschichte. Vortraege aus dem IfZG. Munich: Beck Verlag, 1983. Broszat, Martin. German National Socialism, 1919–1945. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Press, 1966. Brustein, William. The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925–1933. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Burden, H.T. The Nuremberg Party Rallies, 1923–1939. London: Pall Mall Press, 1967. Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.Standard scholarly history Caplan, Jane. Government without Administration: State and Civil Service in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Caplan, Jane, ed. Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Caplan, Jane. Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Childers, Thomas and Caplan, Jane, eds. Reevaluating the Third Reich. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1993. Childers, Thomas. The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Craig, Gordon. Germany, 1866–1945. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Crew, David. Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents. Pages from History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Crew, David, ed. Nazism and German Society, 1933–1945. New York: Routledge, 1994. Diehl-Thiele, Peter. Partei und Staat im Dritten Reich. Untersuchungen zum Verhaeltnis von NSDAP und allgemeiner innerer Staatsverwaltung, 1933–1945. München: Beck, 1969. Dülffer, Jost. Nazi Germany, 1933–1945: Faith and Annihilation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Edelheit, Abraham J., and Hershel Edelheit. History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. Eley, Geoff. From Unification to Nazism. London: Allen and Unwin, 1986. Eley, Geoff. Reshaping the Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980. Epstein, Eric, and Philip Rosen. Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin, 2005. Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin, 2006. Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich at War: 1939–1945. New York: Penguin, 2010. Feuchtwanger, Edgar. From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918–1933. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Fischer, Conan. The Rise of the Nazis. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1995. Fischer, Fritz. From Kaiserreich to Third Reich: Elements of Continuity in German History 1871–1945 [trans of Bundnis der Eliten]. Winchester MA: Allen and Unwin, 1986. Fischer, Klaus. Nazi Germany: A New History. New York: Continuum, 1995. Freeman, Michael. An Atlas of Nazi Germany. New York: Prentice Hall, 1987. Frei, Norbert. National Socialist Rule in Germany: The Führer State 1933–1945. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Friedrich, Carl J., and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956. Fritzsche, Peter. Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (2020) Fulbrook, Mary. History of Germany, 1918–2000: The Divided Nation. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. Gellately, Robert. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Geyer, Michael, and Sheila Fitzpatrick. Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1993. Glantz, David M., et al. Slaughterhouse: The Encyclopedia of the Eastern Front. The Aberjona Press, 2004, . Gregor, Neil, ed. Nazism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Gregor, Neil, ed. Nazism, War and Genocide: New Perspectives on the History of the Third Reich. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005. Gutman, Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1990. Haffner, Sebastian. The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Harsch, Donna. German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Hentschel, Klaus. Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Science Networks Historical Studies, vol. 18. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996. Herf, Jeffrey. Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hiden, John, and John Farquharson. Explaining Hitler's Germany: Historians and the Third Reich. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1983. Hildebrand, Klaus. The Third Reich. London & New York: Routledge, 1986. Hildebrand, Klaus. Vom Reich zum Weltreich. Hitler, NSDAP und koloniale Frage, 1919–1945. München: W. Fink, 1969. Hirszowicz, Lukasz. The Third Reich and the Arab East. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1966. Holborn, Hajo. Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution. New York: Pantheon, 1972. Hughes, Michael. Nationalism and Society: Germany 1800–1945. London: Edward Arnold, 1988. Hülke Hans-Heinrich. Verbrechen, Polizei, Prozessse. Eine Verzeichnis von Büchern und kleineren Schriften in deutscher Sprache. Wiesbaden: Bundeskriminalamt, 1963. Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945–1990. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Independent International Commission of Experts. Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World War. Zurich: Pendo, 2002. Jarman, T. L. The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany. New York: University Press, 1956. Jones, Larry E. German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Kallis, Aristotle. Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922–1945. London: Routledge, 2000. Kallis, Aristotle. Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Kammer, Hilde. Lexikon Nationalsozialismus: Begriffe, Organisationen und Institutionen (Rororo-Sachbuch). Uberarbeitete und erw. Neuausg. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1999. Kershaw, Ian and Moshe Lewin, eds. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. New York & London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2000. Kirk, Tim. Nazi Germany. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Koch, H.W., ed. Aspects of the Third Reich. London: Macmillan, 1985. Koehl, Robert Lewis. RKFDV: German Resettlement and Population Policy, 1939–1945. A History of the Reich Commission for the Strengthening of Germandom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. Krüger, Arnd, and W. J. Murray. The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Laqueur, Walter, and Judith Tydor Baumel, eds. Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Laska, Vera. Nazism, Resistance & Holocaust in World War II: A Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1985. Leitz, Christian, ed. The Third Reich: The Essential Readings. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. Martel, Gordon, ed. Modern Germany Reconsidered 1870–1945. London: Routledge, 1992. Mayer Milton. The Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. McDonough, Frank. The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933–1939. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021. McDonough, Frank. The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940–1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021. Megargee, Geoffrey, ed. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Bloomington, In.: Indiana University Press, 2009. Michael, Robert, and Karin Doerr. Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Mitchell, Allan, and John L. Snell, eds. The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Moeller, Robert G. The Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture). New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. Mommsen, Hans. From Weimar to Auschwitz. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991. Mommsen, Hans. The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918–1945. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. Moore, Michaela Hönicke. Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Mosse, George L. Germans and Jews. New York: Fertig, 1970. Mosse, George L. Nazism: A History and Comparative of National Socialism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1978. Mosse, George L. The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich. New York: Howard Fertig, 1975. Nagorski, Andrew. Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazis Rise to Power. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012. National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Brown Book: War and Nazi Criminals in West Germany. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, n.d. Neumann, Franz L. Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933–1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1944.