Ranked #1
Benjamin Carter Hett, “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic” (Henry Holt, 2018)
Benjamin Carter Hett, “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic” (Henry Holt, 2018)
The downfall of the Weimar Republic in Germany has long fascinated historians, but this catastrophe gained increasing pr... Read more
11 Sep 2018
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1hr
Ranked #2
Robert Citino, “Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942” (UP of Kansas, 2007)
Robert Citino, “Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942” (UP of Kansas, 2007)
Robert Citino is one of a handful of scholars working in German military history whose books I would describe as reliabl... Read more
22 Apr 2011
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1hr 4mins
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Ranked #3
Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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30 Apr 2019
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56mins
Ranked #4
Timothy Nunan, “Carl Schmitt, ‘Writings on War'” (Polity Press, 2011)
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Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was the author of numerous influential books and essays on political theory, law, and other sub... Read more
25 Oct 2011
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1hr 7mins
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Ranked #5
Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? How did diplomatic deadlock fuel the rise of a... Read more
27 Jun 2019
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #6
Eric Kurlander, “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich” (Yale UP, 2017)
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The idea that there is some unholy connection between Nazism and occultism has a lengthy history. It long predates 1933,... Read more
11 Jul 2017
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Ranked #7
Waitman Beorn, “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Waitman Beorn, “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Most of the Jews and other victims the Nazis murdered in the Holocaust were from Eastern Europe, and the vast majority o... Read more
20 Jun 2018
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1hr 37mins
Ranked #8
Monica Black, “Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Monica Black, “Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Over 2.5 million Germans died as a result of World War I, or about 4% of the German population at the time. Somewhere be... Read more
27 Apr 2012
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #9
Hilary Earl, “The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Hilary Earl, “The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Hitler caused the Holocaust, that much we know (no Hitler, no Holocaust). But did he directly order it and, if so, how a... Read more
26 Feb 2010
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #10
Andrew Demshuk, “The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Andrew Demshuk, “The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
At the close of the Second World War, the Allies expelled several million Germans from the eastern portion of the former... Read more
23 Jul 2014
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #11
Filip Slaveski, “The Soviet Occupation of Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Filip Slaveski, “The Soviet Occupation of Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
For over three years, from June 1941 to late 1944, the German Army and related Nazi forces (the SS, occupation troops, a... Read more
2 Jul 2014
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #12
Guenter Lewy, “Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Guenter Lewy, “Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers” (Oxford UP, 2017)
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous.”Thus begins Guenter Lewy’s latest book, Perpetrat... Read more
29 Nov 2017
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40mins
Ranked #13
Steven P. Remy, “The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Steven P. Remy, “The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy” (Harvard UP, 2017)
In his new book, The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy (Harvard University Press, 2017), Steven Remy, p... Read more
13 Dec 2017
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56mins
Ranked #14
Mary Fulbrook, “A Small Near Town Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Mary Fulbrook, “A Small Near Town Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2012)
The question of how “ordinary Germans” managed to commit genocide is a classic (and troubling) one in modern historiogra... Read more
19 Dec 2012
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #15
Donald Bloxham, “The Final Solution: A Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2009)
Donald Bloxham, “The Final Solution: A Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2009)
The end of the Cold War dramatically changed research into the Holocaust. The gradual opening up of archives across East... Read more
12 Feb 2013
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #16
Konrad H. Jarausch, “Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front” (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Konrad H. Jarausch, “Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front” (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Konrad H. Jarausch, whose varied and important works on German history have been required reading for scholars for sever... Read more
12 Jul 2011
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57mins
Ranked #17
Katharina Karcher, "Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968" (Berghahn, 2017)
Katharina Karcher, "Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968" (Berghahn, 2017)
In her new book, Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (Berghahn, 2017), Kat... Read more
31 Jul 2019
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55mins
Ranked #18
Jannica Budde, “Turkish Women Writers in German Cities” (Königshausen and Neumann, 2017)
Jannica Budde, “Turkish Women Writers in German Cities” (Königshausen and Neumann, 2017)
In Germany, beginning in the 1960s, a major population shift took place. The reason for it was the German guest worker p... Read more
25 Apr 2018
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21mins
Ranked #19
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Alex J. Kay (senior lecture of History at Potsdam University in Berlin) and David Stahel (senior lecturer in History at ... Read more
11 Feb 2020
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42mins
Ranked #20
Kevin Simpson, “Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Kevin Simpson, “Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Today we are joined by Kevin Simpson, the author of Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during... Read more
12 Apr 2018
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59mins
