A History of the Third Reich

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Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Greenhaven Pr
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Summary

Volume 4 is a comprehensive compilation of excerpts of primary sources in an A-Z format, conveniently grouped in the following chapters: The Rise of the Third Reich, World War II, Concentration Camps and the Holocaust, and Everyday Life in the Third Reich. Thoroughly cross-referenced, students will easily find important primary sources to enhance and inform any research report on this valuable topic. Excerpts from diaries, memoirs, government reports and memos, contemporary newspapers and magazines, and many other sources are included in this reference that can be used both as a stand-alone and in conjunction with the other volumes.

Table of Contents

The Rise of the Third Reich
Chapter Preface
5(1)
Dietrich, Otto
The Personality of the Fuhrer
6(6)
The Enabling Act
12(1)
Goebbels, Joseph
Goebbels Explains National Socialism
12(5)
Goring, Hermann
Goring Celebrates the German-Italian Alliance
17(3)
Goring, Hermann
Goring Commemorates the Days of Struggle
20(6)
Hitler, Adolf
Germany's Right to Living Space in the East
26(4)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Makes His Pitch to the German Army
30(3)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Threatens Czechoslovakia
33(4)
Hitler, Adolf
Training the National Socialist
37(10)
The Hossbach Memorandum
47(6)
Knab, Otto Michael
The Nazis Arrive in a Small Town
53(3)
Kubizek, August
The Young Hitler Reveals His Dream of Power
56(1)
Papen, Franz von
Papen Recounts Hitler's Takeover
57(6)
Rohm, Ernst
Germany Needs Simple Soldiers
63(2)
Strasser, Otto
A Participant Remembers the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
65(6)
The Twenty-Five Points of the German Workers' Party
71(5)
World War II
Chapter Preface
74(2)
Braun, Eva
Diary Entries
76(4)
Doomed German Soldiers Write Home from Stalingrad
80(3)
Fritzsche, Hans
The Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials
83(7)
German Resistance Movement
A Vision for a Post-Hitler Germany
90(7)
Goebbels, Joseph
Goebbels and Goring Comment on Their Rivals
97(6)
Goebbels, Joseph
Goebbels's False Optimism in April 1945
103(3)
Hitler, Adolf
Declaring War on the United States
106(2)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Promises Revenge for the July 1944 Plot
108(1)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Responds to the Concerns of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
109(11)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler's Last Will and Political Testament
120(3)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler's Rambling Discourse
123(2)
Hitler, Adolf
Justifying Operation Barbarossa
125(6)
International Military Tribunal
The Charges Against the Surviving Nazi Leaders
131(9)
Jackson, Robert H.
Accusing the Third Reich
140(4)
Manstein, Erich von
The War's Turning Point: Germany's Loss at Stalingrad
144(5)
Shirer, William L.
The Nazis Invade Western Europe
149(2)
Speer, Albert
Hitler and Germany React to the Start of the War
151(3)
Speer, Albert
A Last Visit to Hitler
154(6)
Concentration Camps and the Holocaust
Chapter Preface
160(2)
Blaskowitz, Johannes
A General Objects to the Killings
162(1)
Donat, Alexander
The Last Days of the Warsaw Ghetto
163(5)
Eichmann, Adolf and Less, Avner
Eichmann Remembers
168(6)
The First Gas Chambers
174(3)
Frank, Anne
Final Diary Entries
177(2)
Galen, August Graf von
A Bishop Calls for an End to Euthanasia
179(3)
Graebe, Hermann
The Einsatzgruppen in Action
182(2)
Halder, Franz
Hitler's Call for a War of Extermination
184(1)
Heydrich, Reinhard
Kristallnacht Report
185(1)
Himmler, Heinrich
Himmler Claims His Legacy
186(2)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Implies a Future Jewish Holocaust
188(2)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler's Early Hatred of Jews
190(3)
Hoss, Rudolf
A Report from the Auschwitz Commandant
193(5)
Jewish Fighting Organization
Warsaw Jews Must Resist
198(1)
Kohler, Pauline
Sent by a Brief Comment to Dachau
199(4)
Levi, Primo
Working in a Factory at Auschwitz
203(5)
The Nuremberg Laws
208(2)
Orenstein, Henry
Surviving a Death March
210(6)
Rosenberg, Alfred
Jews Are, for Now, a Necessary Evil
216(3)
Rozycki, Stanislav
Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
219(1)
Rules at Dachau
220(3)
The Wannsee Conference Protocols
223(6)
Everyday Life in the Third Reich
Chapter Preface
228(1)
Bormann, Martin
Christianity and Nazism Are Incompatible
229(2)
Brainwashing the Young
231(1)
Burckhardt, Werner
Growing Up in Nazi Germany
232(2)
Dodd, Martha
The Narrowing of German Life and Culture
234(4)
Furtwangler, Wilhelm and Goebbels, Joseph
The Purpose of Art
238(3)
Gutt, Arthur
The Third Reich Must Maintain Family and Racial Purity
241(5)
Hitler, Adolf
On the Nature of Women
246(2)
Hitler, Adolf
The State Must Dominate the Churches
248(1)
Hitler Youth Leadership
Program for a Hitler Youth Campout
249(3)
Ley, Robert
Strength Through Joy: Taking Care of the German Worker
252(3)
Scholtz-Klink, Gertrude
An Official Statement from the Reich Women's Leader
255(3)
Shirach, Baldur von
The Hitler Youth
258(7)
Shirer, William L.
An American on Hitler's Charisma
265(2)
Songs of the Third Reich
267(5)
SS Marriage Requirements
272(1)
Student Protest Leaflets: The White Rose
273(3)
The Verdict of the People's Court on Rebels
276(6)
Chronology 282(9)
For Further Research 291(7)
Index 298(5)
Comprehensive Index 303(26)
Picture Credits 329(1)
About the Editor 330(1)
About the Consulting Editor 330

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