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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 148,863 ratings — published 1960
Mother Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 105,574 ratings — published 1961
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 12,531 ratings — published 2003
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 33,801 ratings — published 1963
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,890,068 ratings — published 2005
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as nazism)
avg rating 3.18 — 43,679 ratings — published 1925
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,666 ratings — published 1992
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 220,745 ratings — published 2011
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6,874 ratings — published 1998
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.58 — 255,533 ratings — published 1980
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,517 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,206,612 ratings — published 1947
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.27 — 37,034 ratings — published 1947
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nazism)
avg rating 3.59 — 236,290 ratings — published 1962
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 7,502 ratings — published 2005
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nazism)
avg rating 3.75 — 436 ratings — published 2001
Fatherland (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.03 — 56,767 ratings — published 1992
Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,623 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 884,146 ratings — published 1946
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 19,860 ratings — published 2010
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 15,148 ratings — published 2006
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
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avg rating 4.39 — 6,239 ratings — published 2008
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.27 — 174,928 ratings — published 1942
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 10,194 ratings — published 2014
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,986,071 ratings — published 2014
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 3,129 ratings — published 2007
Inside the Third Reich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 14,342 ratings — published 1969
Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.44 — 3,116 ratings — published 2013
The Destruction of the European Jews (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,459 ratings — published 1961
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nazism)
avg rating 3.85 — 698 ratings — published 1982
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,471 ratings — published 1956
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,870 ratings — published 1951
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 478 ratings — published 2005
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.39 — 376,372 ratings — published 1986
Adolf Hitler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,791 ratings — published 1958
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,456,796 ratings — published 2005
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,538 ratings — published 2008
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 5,184 ratings — published 1955
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,172,580 ratings — published 2018
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.07 — 451 ratings — published 1985
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,416 ratings — published 2015
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,791 ratings — published 2017
Look Who's Back (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.43 — 40,935 ratings — published 2012
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 87,138 ratings — published 1947
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 33,024 ratings — published 2015
Goebbels: A Biography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 958 ratings — published 2010
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nazism)
avg rating 4.02 — 514 ratings — published 2011
“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
“[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:]
Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.
Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?
Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.”
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Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.
Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?
Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.”
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