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370ISS the Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 View Online The Third Reich 1933-1945 269 items 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 reading list (269 items) 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 - reading list Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: a Documentary Reader : Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: a Documentary Reader - Jeremy Noakes, 2001 Book Nazi Germany at war - Martin Kitchen, 2014 Book Germany in the age of total war - 2020 Book Germany, 1914-1933: politics, society, and culture - Matthew Stibbe, 2013 Book Joseph Goebbels: life and death - Toby Thacker, 2009 Book Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic - Andreas Dorpalen, 1964 Book Essential reading (8 items) The Gestapo: the myth and reality of Hitler's secret police - Frank McDonough, 2016 Book In the name of the Volk: political justice in Hitler's Germany - H. W. Koch, 1997 Book Resistance in Vichy France: a study of ideas and motivation in the southern zone, 1940-1942 - H. R. Kedward, 1978 Book Political violence under the swastika: 581 early Nazis - Peter H. Merkl, 1975 Book The Third Reich: a new history - Burleigh, Michael, 2000 (2001 [pbk reprint]) Book The coming of the third Reich - Richard J. Evans, 2004 1/19 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University Book The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939 - Richard J. Evans, 2006 Book The Third Reich at war: how the Nazis led Germany from conquest to disaster - Richard J. Evans, 2009 Book Recommended reading (51 items) Hitler - Joachim C. Fest, ebrary, Inc, 1992, c1974 Book German resistance against Hitler: the search for allies abroad, 1938-1945 - Klemens Von Klemperer, UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online), 1992 Book Backing Hitler: consent and coercion in Nazi Germany - Robert Gellately, UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online), 2001 Book Six faces of courage: secret agents against Nazi tyranny - M. R. D. Foot, R. V. Jones, 2003 Book Resistance: European resistance to the Nazis, 1940-1945 - M. R. D. Foot, 2016 Book Hitler's followers: studies in the sociology of the Nazi movement - Detlef Mu ̈ hlberger, Taylor & Francis, 2015 Book Nazism - 2012 Book Nazi propaganda: the power and the limitations - 2015 Book Government, party and people in Nazi Germany - Jeremy Noakes, 1980 Book Years of Weimar, the Third Reich and post-war Germany - David Evans, Jane Jenkins, David Evans, 2008 Book The rise of national socialism and the working classes in Weimar Germany - Conan Fischer, 1996 Book 2/19 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University Hitler and the peasants: agrarian policy of the Third Reich, 1930-1939 - Gustavo Corni, 1990 Book Collaboration in France: politics and culture during the Nazi occupation, 1940-1944 - Gerhard Hirschfeld, Patrick Marsh, 1989 Book The foreign policy of Hitler's Germany: starting World War II, 1937-1939 - Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1994 Book Contending with Hitler: varieties of German resistance in the Third Reich - David Clay Large, Cambridge University Press, 1991 Book Nazi culture: intellectual, cultural, and social life in the Third Reich - George L. Mosse, 1981, c1966 Book Foreign policy of Hitler's Germany: diplomatic revolution in Europe, 1933-36 - Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1970 Book Reworking the past: Hitler, the Holocaust, and the historians' debate - Peter Baldwin, 1990 Book November 1938: from "Reichskristallnacht" to genocide - Walter H. Pehle, 1990 Book The path to genocide: essays on launching the final solution - Browning, Christopher R., 1995 Book Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 - Paxton, Robert O., c2001 Book The French against the French: collaboration and resistance - Milton Dank, 1978 Book The unmasterable past: history, Holocaust, and German national identity - Maier, Charles S., 1997 Book Hindenberg and the Weimar Republic - Andreas Dorpalen, 1964 Book Weimar: why did German democracy fail? - Kershaw, Ian, c1990 Book Consuming history: historians and heritage in contemporary popular culture - Jerome De Groot, 2009 3/19 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University Book Racial hygiene: medicine under the Nazis - Proctor, Robert, 1988 Book Doctors under Hitler - Michael H. Kater, Charles E. Rosenberg, EBSCOhost, ℗♭1989 Book Reevaluating the Third Reich - Childers, Thomas, Caplan, Jane, 1993 Book The Nazi seizure of power: the experience of a single German town 1922-1945 - Allen, William Sheridan, c1984 Book The Nazi movement - Theodore Abel, Taylor & Francis, 2017 Book The Nazi party in Lower Saxony, 1921-1933 - Noakes, Jeremy, 1971 Book Germany's cold war: the global campaign to isolate East Germany, 1949-1969 - William Glenn Gray, c2003 Book The Holocaust in history - Marrus, Michael R., 2000 Book Life in the Third Reich - Bessel, Richard, 2001 Book Nazism and war - Bessel, Richard, ebrary, Inc, 2004 Book Germany in the age of total war - Berghahn, Volker R., Kitchen, Martin, 1981 Book The German dictatorship: the origins, structure, and effects of national socialism - Bracher, Karl Dietrich, 1991 Book Explaining Hitler's Germany: historians and the Third Reich - Hiden, John, Farquharson, John E., 1984 Book The Nazi dictatorship: problems and perspectives of interpretation - Kershaw, Ian, 1993 Book The Third Reich: charisma and community - Kitchen, Martin, 2008 Book Nazi Germany at war - Kitchen, Martin, 1995 4/19 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University Book Aspects of the Third Reich - Koch, H. W. Book Modern Germany reconsidered, 1870-1945 - Martel, Gordon, 1992 Book Nazism, 1919-1945: vol. 1: The rise to power, 1919-1934 : a documentary reader - Noakes, Jeremy, Pridham, Geoffrey, 1983 (1994 [reprint with updated bibliography]) Book Nazism, 1919-1945: vol. 2: State, economy and society, 1933-1939 : a documentary reader - Noakes, Jeremy, Pridham, Geoffrey, 1984 (1994 [reprint with updated bibliography]) Book Nazism, 1919-1945: vol. 3: Foreign policy, war and racial extermination : a documentary reader - Noakes, Jeremy, Pridham, Geoffrey, 1988 (1991 [reprint]) Book The dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia - Overy, R. J, 2005 Book Inside Nazi Germany: conformity, opposition and racism in everyday life - Peukert, Detlev J. K., Deveson, Richard, 1987 Book The war that Hitler won: the most infamous propaganda campaign in history - Herzstein, Robert Edwin, 1979 Book Hitler's army: soldiers, Nazis, and war in the Third Reich - Bartov, Omer, c1992 Book The Kampfzeit and the Weimar republic (24 items) Social change and political development in Weimar Germany - Taylor & Francis, 2020 Book The collapse of the Weimar Republic: political economy and crisis - Abraham, David, 1981 Book The infancy of Nazism: the memoirs of ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 1923-1933 - Allen, William Sheridan, Krebs, Albert, 1976 Book Hitler and the collapse of Weimar Germany - Broszat, Martin, 1987 Book The Nazi voter: the social foundations of fascism in Germany, 1919-1933 - Thomas 5/19 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University Childers, c1983 Book The formation of the Nazi constituency, 1919-1933 - Childers, Thomas Book Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic - Dorpalen, Andreas, 1964 Book The coming of the third Reich - Evans, Richard J., 2004 Book The German unemployed: experiences and consequences of mass unemployment from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich - Evans, Richard J., Geary, Dick, 1987 Book Who voted for Hitler - Hamilton, Richard F. Book Weimar: why did German democracy fail? - Kershaw, Ian, c1990 Book The Weimar Republic - Kolb, Eberhard, Falla, P. S., 1988 Book From Weimar to Auschwitz : essays in German history - Mommsen, Hans, O'Connor, Philip, 1991 Book Hitler's followers: studies in the sociology of the Nazi movement - Muhlberger, Detlef, 1991 Book Weimar and the rise of Hitler - Nicholls, A. J., 1991 Book The Nazi party in Lower Saxony, 1921-1933 - Noakes, Jeremy, 1971 Book The history of the Nazi party: Vol. 1: 1919-33 - Orlow, Dietrich, 1971 Book The history of the Nazi party: Vol. 2: 1933-1945 - Orlow, Dietrich, 1973 Book The Weimar Republic: the crisis of classical modernity - Peukert, Detlev J. K., 1993, c1991 Book Elections, parties and political traditions: social foundations of German parties and party systems, 1867-1987 - Rohe, Karl, 1990 Book Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany - Stachura, Peter D., 1986 6/19 09/25/21 370ISS The Third Reich 1933-1945 | Coventry University Book German big business and the rise of Hitler - Turner, Henry Ashby, 1985 Book Unemployment and the great depression in Weimar Germany - c1986 Book The rise and fall of Weimar democracy - Hans Mommsen, Elborg Forster, Larry Eugene Jones, EBSCOhost, ℗♭1996 Book Ideology (16 items) The Nazi question: an essay on the interpretations of national socialism (1922-1975) - Aycoberry, Pierre, 1981 Book The rise of fascism - Carsten, F. L., 1980 Book The myth of the master race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi ideology - Cecil, Robert, [1972] Book Nazism - Gregor, Neil, 2000 Book Mein Kampf - Hitler, Adolf, Manheim, Ralph, Watt, Donald Cameron, 1992 Book Hitler's secret book - Hitler, Adolf Book Hitler in history - Jackel, Eberhard, 1984 Book Hitler's world view: a blueprint for power - Jackel, Eberhard, 1981 Book Nazi ideology before 1933: a documentation - Barbara Miller Lane, Leila J. Rupp, 1978 Book Fascism: a reader's guide : analyses, interpretations, bibliography - Laqueur, Walter, 1979 Book Three faces of fascism: Action Francaise, Italian fascism, national socialism - Nolte, Ernst,
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