An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

408. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Part 5)

January 15, 2024

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“We must have a healthy people to dominate in the world”. In July 1933, Hitler’s Nazi party passed a new law for the compulsory sterilisation of anyone with a physical disability, or “congenital...
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Books Referenced

The Nazi Conscience

Author: Claudia Koons

Context:

Tom explicitly recommends this as 'a brilliant book' by 'an American historian' when discussing his research into Nazi morality while writing about Christianity's moral influence.

The Law of Blood, Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

Author: Johann Chaputé

Context:

Tom describes this as 'a really remarkable book' by a French scholar and professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne. He quotes from it regarding the Nazi mental universe and references it again later when discussing trials of physicians who participated in euthanasia programs.

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

Context:

Referenced when discussing Hitler's understanding of history and the concept of struggle, with Tom noting 'that echo of Mein Kampf' in relation to a Nazi documentary titled 'All Life is Struggle.'

The Blonde Hair of the Indo-Germanic Peoples of Antiquity

Author: Unknown Nazi-era Scholar

Context:

Mentioned as an example of Nazi-era scholarship, described as a book by 'one scholar' who compiled exhaustive lists of classical references to blonde hair to support Nazi racial theories about Greeks and Romans being Nordic.