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Hitler a biography from the Time 100 series. Holocaust
survivor Elie Wiesel discusses Hitler's impact on the 20th
century.
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 Germany:1900-45: Comprehensive source based overview of
Germany from 1914-45. Well cross linked and excellent on
content.
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A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler Sara Salzman / The
Nizkor Project Slow to load, so be patient, but excellent for
those of you studying charismatic leadership. Declassified
documents from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Offers
extensive exploration of Hitler's character, and examines his
behaviour and its affect on the German people and his
associates. Describes events of his life through eyewitness
accounts, as well as Hitler's writings and speeches. Users can
download images of the original pages. §
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Hitler vs. History Pomperaug High School. Information
showing how Hitler's rise to power resulted from both the force
of his personality and the conditions in Germany after World War
I. Offers links to related sites. §
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Adolf Hitler: Wavs and Images J.C. Kaelin / EarthStation1
Archive of photos, images, and speeches of Hitler. Includes the
BBC broadcast of his death.
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Photo Gallery: The Führer and for the background see
Walter Frentz: The Führer's Photographer
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Life in Hitler's Germany: 1933-39 and Hitler and the
Nazi State: Power and Control
From the older website of King David School.
Worthwhile Very specific to UK examination courses but
comprehensive notes and links to articles on each unit as well
as to sites of general help & support for students. The site is
now defunct. This is the Wayback copy. Most articles links are
still live however. §
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The
Secret Diaries of Dr Morell, Hitler's Doctor Pdf of the
controversial historian David Irving's 1990 edition of the lost
diaries of Professor Theo Morell.
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2. Hitler:
Background
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Adolf Hitler Jennifer Rosenberg. Biographical timeline of
the dictator's life. Includes photographs and links to related
sites.
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 Brief Biography of Adolf Hitler From the BBC. Succinct
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Hitler's Family Tree Jennifer Rosenberg / The Mining Company
Graph of Hitler's lineage.
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Adolf Hitler Biography
Useful overview of Adolf
Hitler's life, taken from the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
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Adolf Hitler: Table of Contents
Listed chronological information on the German dictator. Includes an
extensive biography as well as documents and letters by Hitler
on topics such as propaganda, the Soviet invasion, and
euthanasia. From American-Israeli
Cooperative.
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The Rise of Adolf Hitler The History Place Series of
biographical articles about the dictator. Details his life from
birth through the takeover of the German leadership in 1933.
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Original Artworks By Adolf Hitler This site is attempting to
sell some of Hitler's early artworks, but more importantly, they
show the drawings.
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The Führer's Obsession with Art 'Hitler Considered Himself
an Artistic Genius' Art historian Birgit Schwarz talks to
SPIEGEL about why Adolf Hitler saw himself as a genius and how
his obsession with art affected his political views.
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Hitler's Private Collection Goes Virtual By Michael Scott
Moore, Spiegel online. A musuem in Berlin has put the legendary
Linz Collection, Hitler's private collection of art, online. It
may be the first time since World War II that the all the pieces
have been assembled in one place.
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Eye-Witness Account of Hitler's WWI Years By David Gordon
Smith, Spiegel Online. Hitler's years in the German army during
World War I have long been a mystery due to the lack of
eyewitness accounts. Now a memoir written by a forgotten German
author of fantastic literature has been rediscovered -- and
sheds new light on the Führer.
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Adolf Hitler - Happiest Period of His Life Article by Robert
Wohl, Univ of California on Hitler's response to World War 1.
PBS Great War site.
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Hitler's Mountain Home: Homes & Gardens article of Nov 1938.
Fascinating report from the 1930's described in
At home with the Führer by Simon Waldman who came across the
featured article about Hitler's house, and posted it to his
weblog. This started a bizarre series of events that saw him
embroiled in legal wrangles and denounced as a Nazi sympathiser.
Guardian newspaper article, 2003
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Hitler: ideas
Racial views
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Adolf Hitler's First Anti-Semitic Writing, 1919 Letter
from Hitler to Adolf Gemlich regarding the "Jewish question,"
written Sept. 16, 1919
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Nazi
Racial Policy Pamphlet, 1934.This is the text of a speech
delivered by Dr. Walter Groß, the head of the Nazi Party's
Office of Racial Policy. He was speaking to a women's meeting at
the Gau Party Rally in Cologne on 13 October 1934. The text was
widely distributed. This is an interesting example of Nazi
racial propaganda early on in Hitler's regime. It does not
mention the Jews directly, but lays the foundation for
anti-Semitism.
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Hitler's Racial Ideology: Content and Occult Sources by
Jackson Spielvogel and David Redles. A complex article published
by the Wiesenthal centre drawing attention to some of the key
concepts and influences on Hitlers racial ideas. §
Foreign Policy
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 Ideologies
of left & right For a comparison of the
ideologies of left and right that were fundamental to Hitler
and National Socialism visit to the casahistoria page
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4. The Nazi State: Leadership, Party &
Government
Leadership
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 Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian State A useful
(teacher's) Guide to Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian
State.
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The Hitler Myth From Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth": Image
and Reality in the Third Reich. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1987), 1-5. Published on the excellent Mosaic site §
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Hitler's Leadership Style - Führerprinzip By Dr Geoffrey
Megargee. The image of Hitler as a meddler in military
operations is powerful and persistent. He was also stubborn,
distrusted his generals and relied too much on his own instinct.
Geoffrey Megargee examines the Führer's shortcomings as a
military leader.
Structure of the Nazi state
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Structure of the State and Hitler's Role by Dr Martyn
Housden, University of Bradford. Adapted notes. Good on the
historiography of the monolithic(?) state. §
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The Functioning of the Nazi Regime: State and Society.
Clearly presented outline from the online textbook of Raffael
Scheck, Colby College, Maine to accompany his Lectures: Germany
& Europe, 1871-1945.
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The Political System of the Third Reich and
Hitler as Dictator Articles by
Professor Gerhard Rempel,
Western New England College. From his lectures:
History of Modern Germany
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Who Voted for the Nazis? based on the article of this name
by Professor Dick Geary, History Today, October 1998.
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Workers and Nazis in Hitler's homeland Public opinion in
Nazi Austria, 1938-45 Article by Tim Kirk, History Today. Looks
at support for the Nazi's in Austria §
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Totalitarian Rule Lecture by Prof Rempel, based on Hans
Buchheim, Totalitarian Rule: Its Nature and Characteristics
(1968). From his lectures:
History of Modern Germany
- Axis
factbook features very comprehensive statistical information
(but no analysis) about military, political, and police
organizations as well as songs, photo gallery, and military
equipment. Remember that many of the items (especially photos)
were produced by the Nazi's specifically for propaganda
purposes.
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Their struggle Interesting FT article by Niall Ferguson
(2008). Looks at failure of the Reich as colonising power in
eastern Europe in the context of contemporary colonial powers ,
UK & France in reviewing 'Hitler's Empire' by Mark Mazower.
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Wehrmacht Oath of Loyalty On August 2, 1934, the same day
Paul von Hindenberg died, Hitler made each member of the armed
forces swear an allegiance to Adolf Hitler. This is a copy of
the oath.
The Nazi Party
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Nazi Officials (1) How did a young Austrian painter rise to
be dictator? How did the Nazis use the German constitution to
gain power? Follow the rise of the Nazi officials and the
creation of the Third Reich.
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Nazi Officials
(2) From Martin Bormann to Rudolf Hess, find out more about
various Nazi officials through these links
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Heinrich Himmler: Biography
From the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, this biography focuses on Himmler's role within the SS.
Topics include Himmler's ideological motivations and role in
mass murder.
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Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler, from the Spartacus site.
Good sources to support the bio.
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"Party Time" The Temporal Revolution of the Third Reich
Dificult article from History Today by Prof Roger Griffin which
takes an anthroplogical approach to the rise of nazism.
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Photographs of Nazi Officials.
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5. Propaganda
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USHMM online exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi
Propaganda An excellent resource from US
Holocaust Museum. Use it to select and compare propaganda
resources in different contexts & themes. See also these
articles:
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Nazi Propaganda (1933-1945) Propaganda was central to Nazi
Germany. This section is a collection of English translations of
Nazi propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of a larger site
on German
propaganda. The goal is to help people understand the great
totalitarian systems of the 20th Century by giving them access
to the primary material. The archive is substantial.
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 Power of Persuasion - Propaganda David Welch in a History
Today article places nazi propaganda in a broader context. He
argues that propaganda has had an essential, and not always
dishonourable, role in conduct of affairs in the twentieth
century. §
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The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany, 1933: The American
Response, detailed and well sourced article by Guy Stern §
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anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: Intriguing 1996 research
article by Robert N Proctor showing Germany had the world's
strongest anti smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s,in
the Nazi quest for racial and bodily purity, which also
motivated many other public health efforts of the era.
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Swinging for Goebbels Looks at how Goebbels used the
propaganda value of the music to target Allied listeners via the
airwaves with his band Charlie and his Orchestra. From Deutsche
Welle.
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How the Nazis Stole Christmas Swastika Christmas tree
ornaments, "Germanic" cookies and made-up traditions: David
Gordon Smith of Spiegel Online shows how Nazi attempts to hijack
a festival that began with the birth of a Jewish child weren't
entirely successful. See also
Photo Gallery: Christmas under the Third Reich
Visual
propaganda
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Nazi Posters BBC By Professor David Welch
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Nazi Postcards An auction site for Nazi memorabilia(!), but
good images of an intriguing aspect of "personal" propaganda §
Cinema
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Triumph of the Will. 1997 History Today article by Brian
Winston looks at the problems of seeing the film purely as a
piece of propaganda. §
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The Nazi Olympics, 1936 Berlin This site presents an online
version of an exhibition created by the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington DC
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Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl is a famous artist who
greatly influenced the art of film, but is best remembered for
her Nazi past.
Art & Music
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Degenerate Music &
Nazi Approved Music Two clear, concise and excellent
resources, well supported with (aural & documentary) resource
materials from the teachers guide to the Holocaust
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First Listing of Undesired Musical Works This is an
interesting 1939 list. The text at the top translates: "...the
Reich Music Examination Office has declared the following
musical works as undesired and harmful. Publishing, distributing
or performing these works is forbidden in the German Reich."
Calvin Propaganda Archive.
Propaganda & War
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Calvin Propaganda Archive. This ever growing archive is the
key resource here, as it is for the Nazi Period in general.
Articles from the time, posters, pamphlets, images. All placed
in context. As the site is so vast a selection most relevant to
this page are included in this section.
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 Propaganda leaflets:
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The
Work of Party Propaganda in War Nazi Party Essay published
for those active as Nazi Party propagandists. The essay is a
balance sheet on Nazi propaganda after the first year of the
war. It provides a wide range of statistics on propaganda
activity. Source: "Die Arbeit der Partei-Propaganda im
Kriege,"Unser Wille und Weg, 11 (1941).
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Unexpected Consequences, The Bombing War: Overcoming and Revenge
This 1943 Propaganda article presents the bombing as a serious
threat, but one that Germans are overcoming by hard work and
devotion. It also promises that vague but deadly revenge is
almost ready on the German side. By Schwarz van Berk, one of
Goebbels' top propagandists.
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Food rationing (1942) Translation of instructions to
speakers in March 1942 on what to say about significant cuts
in food rations for the population.
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Air Raids (1943) Explains what was to be said about the
Allied massive bombing raids. The claim is that the only way
to rebuild Germany is first to win the war.
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Berlin: A Huge Hedgehog (22 April 1945) Unlike earlier
articles which promised miracle weapons to save the day,
this article does not promise victory. It only claims that
Berlin will be defended to the last. It hardly mentions
Hitler. By Hans-Ulrich Arntz
Visual propaganda
- Cartoons from Das Reich, a widely-circulated Nazi
weekly magazine. Goebbels wrote the lead editorial each week. It
attempted to appeal to an educated audience:
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The Shadow campaign against Spies: Posters from one of the
last major Nazi propaganda campaigns (1944). It was designed to
combat idle chatter and build awareness of enemy spies. This
page has most of the posters from the campaign. See also
Shadow
Campaign for their background.
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German wartime advertising: Examples from 1944. This page
includes ads from a special issue of a leading German weekly
magazine (Illustrierte Zeitung Leipzig). In each case,
there is reference to Nazi war goals. Calvin Propaganda Archive.
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Nazi war art:
Examples, 1940-1944 from the Calvin Propaganda archive.
Cinema
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The celluloid war – The Home Front Film Good Google Preview
extract from the book “Nazi cinema as enchantment: the politics
of entertainment in the Third Reich” by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
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German Newsreel Archive: In German. A good source of
newsreels but care is needed with the search page if you have no
German!
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German propaganda on the home front German propaganda on
the home front. World War II footage on YouTube (unfortunately
with the usual banal comments below)
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Panorama Cinema Newsreel (Autumn 1944) Wochenschau in Farbe
Nazi propaganda colour cinema newsreel film (Excerpt). Original
soundtrack. English subtitles. This is the initial section of
this "Panorama" newsreel. Shown: harvesting grapes on the Rhine
in the sixth year of war, war landscapes (Carpatian mountains),
Italian Alps: Allied fighters strafing a German convoy and AAA
German fire, German ships in the North Sea engaging an artillery
duel with Russian coastal batteries and an outstanding boat race
for Hitlerjugend boys.
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6. Economics
The Economy & War
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An economy geared to war Richard Overy article from History
Today, Nov 2001 outlining (in depth) lessons Hitler drew for
WW1. §
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Porsche's Past -The Dark Pre-History of the World's Favourite
Sports Car Officially, history began for Porsche in 1950.
But the company existed before that as a supplier for Hitler's
war machine. New research suggests that the company benefited
much more from its Nazi ties than it has admitted to. By Nils
Klawitter, Spiegel online.
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Shoes and Nazi Bazookas - The Prehistory of Adidas and Puma
During World War II, industries big and small all over Germany
became part of Hitler's massive war machine. The change even
affected the predecessor of footwear legends Adidas and Puma,
which -- oddly enough -- manufactured Germany's version of the
bazooka. By Robert Kuhn and Thomas Thiel, Spiegel online.
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 BMW's Quandt Family to Investigate Wealth Amassed in Third Reich
2007 Spiegel Article reviews claims that the Quandts used slave
labourers in factories during World War II. By Julia Bonstein,
Dietmar Hawranek and Klaus Wiegrefe.
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How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout
World War II Contains excerpts from two books that show the
extent to which US multinationals continued to involve
themselves with the Reich during the war. Interesting and useful
selection from "Trading With the Enemy: An Exposé of The
Nazi-American Money-Plot 1933-1949" by C Higham &
"The Coca Cola
Company under the Nazis" by E Jones and F Ritzmann
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Church Employed 6,000 Forced Labourers Spiegel article on
how Germany's Catholic Church employed almost 6,000 forced
laborers during World War II, according to new research
commissioned by the church. The report highlights the church's
ambivalent relationship with the Nazis.
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the casahistoria Hitler's Germany core sites:
Hitler's Rise to Power &
Collapse of Weimar
Hitler Home Page & Structure of the Hitler State
Living in the Nazi State
Women & Family in
Nazi Germany
The End of the Reich
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