The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
Berlin Diary - William L. Shirer
History of the Second World War - Basil Liddell-Hart
_itler - Konrad Heiden
_itler - Alan Bullock
_itler - Alan Wykes
_itler’s War Directives - HR Trevor-Roper
_itler as War Lord - Franz Halder
_itler Youth - HW Koch
SS and Gestapo - Roger Manville
Sword and Swastika - Telford Taylor
The Black Angels - Rupert Butler
The Second World War - John Keegan
The SS (1922-1945) - Gerald Reitlinger
The early nazi’s considered themselves to be a “third way” only allying themselves with the “extreme” right, bankers, industrialists, and the Wermacht (in that order), as a way to defeat their common enemy, the Communists.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 came as a very rude shock to most of those right-wing allies when it was first announced. It also seriously confused pre-war political issues within the US and Europe west of the Rhine.
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Don’t make me turn this bookshelf around again old man.
;),
R