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Nazi Booklist

 

Fiction (all genres) and Nonfiction about the Nazis and Nazi Germany.

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

Nonfiction

• The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939
  Author: Evans, Richard
  Publisher: Penguin $ 34.95 ISBN: 1594200742 Date: 2005
  Kirkus PW
  In this definitive account, Evans shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way, but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run.
  Updated 7.25.05
• Defying Hitler
  Author: Haffner, Sebastian
  Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ ISBN: Date: 2002
  Kirkus Booklist
  A bestseller in Germany, Defying Hitler is a memoir about the rise of Nazism in Germany and the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Available for the first time in English, this highly illuminating work is a unique portrait of a time, a place, and a people.
  Updated 6.30.02
• Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
  by Kaplan, Alice
  Publisher: Univ of Chicago $ 25 ISBN: 0226424146 Date: 2000
  PW
  The author of the acclaimed memoir French Lessons tells the story of Robert Brasillach's rise and fall: his emergence as a golden boy of literary fascism during the 1930s, his wartime collaboration with the Nazis, his dramatic trial, and his afterlife as a martyr for French rightists and Holocaust revisionists.
  
• I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1941-1945
  by Klemperer, Victor
  Publisher: Random House $ 29.95 ISBN: 0375502408 Date: 2000
  PW Kirkus
  Described by the London Sunday Times as, "the color film of Nazi Germany after years of black and white, " I Will Bear Witness has been heralded as one of the most courageous and remarkable books of our time. The second volume of this extraordinary work covers the worst years of the war, including the Final Solution and the advance of Allied troops.
  
• Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
  by Roseman, Mark
  Publisher: Holt $ 27.50 ISBN: 0805063269 Date: 2001
  PW
  When the Gestapo came for her family, Marianne Strauss went underground, and was on the run across Nazi Germany for two years--without papers, and aided by remarkable resistance organizations previously unknown and unsung.