An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
410. The Nazis in Power: The Night of Broken Glass (Part 7)
January 18, 2024
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Adolf Hitler
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Referenced in a Yorkshire Post editorial from 1938, stating that the treatment of German Jews could have been anticipated by reading this book, which is 'plastered with anti-Semitic abuse'
Author: Adam Tooze
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Referenced as a historian whose work discusses the theme of Nazis using anti-Semitism to distract from economic struggles (providing 'guns as well as butter')
Author: Richard Evans
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Referenced alongside Adam Tooze as a historian whose work discusses Nazi economic and anti-Semitic policies
Author: Michael Chabon
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Explicitly mentioned as 'Michael Chabon's great novel' - an alternative history where Jews ended up in Canada/Alaska rather than Palestine
Author: Richard Evans
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Directly referenced as 'Richard Evans's book on the Third Reich in power' - used as a source for examples of Kristallnacht violence in towns like Treutlingen and Esslingen
Author: Victor Klemperer
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Referenced as 'Victor Klemperer's diaries' - describing his experience of being excluded from all aspects of German life as a Jew
Author: Ian Kershaw
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Referenced as 'Ian Kershaw's biography' (of Hitler) - cited regarding Hitler's mindset connecting the Jewish question with his desire for an apocalyptic showdown in Europe, and regarding the establishment of Heydrich's central office for Jewish immigration as a step toward the Holocaust