Reading List For The National Socialism and the Holocaust Study Group
I have tried to include books with a broad scope and have tried to order them in a meaningful way and disperse the subjects.
Study Group Reading List
- The History of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans (3 vols)
The Coming of the Third Reich
The Third Reich in Power
The Third Reich at War - The History of Europe in the Interwar Years by Zara Steiner (2 vols)
The Lights that Failed
The Triumph of the Dark - Nazi Germany and the Jews by Saul Friedlander (2 vols)
– The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945 - I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer (2 vols)
– Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945 - Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw (2 vols)
Volume 1: Hubris
Volume 2: Nemesis - KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
- Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Götz Aly
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
- The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945 by Nicholas Stargardt
- The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf
- Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
- The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
- The Dark Heart of Hitler’s Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government by Martin Winstone
- Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes
- Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus by Waitman Wade Beorn
- Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
- The Third Reich in History and Memory by Richard J. Evans
- Germans into Jews: Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic by Sharon Gillerman
- Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence by Christopher Dillon
- Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust by Gerald D. Feldman
- Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
- Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
- Chełmno and the Holocaust: The History of Hitler’s First Death Camp by Patrick Montague
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
- Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps by Yitzhak Arad
- Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany by Nathan Stoltzfus
- Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
- Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization by Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford and David Stahel
- Nazi Hunger Politics: A History of Food in the Third Reich by Gesine Gerhard
- Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 by Jeff Rutherford
- Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest by Edward B. Westermann
- Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich by Paolo Giaccaria (Editor), Claudio Minca (Editor)
- Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto by Tim Cole
- Holocaust Landscapes by Tim Cole
- Geographies of the Holocaust by Anne Kelly Knowles (Editor), Tim Cole (Editor), Alberto Giordano (Editor)
- The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective by Carroll Kakel
- Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan
- The Order of Terror by Wolfgang Sofsky
- The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History by Dietrich Orlow
- Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938–1944 by Wolf Gruner
- The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda by David Welch
- Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 by Elissa Mailänder
- The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property by Harold James