An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

298: The Nazis: Total Power (Part 4)

January 26, 2023

Description

Hitler is chancellor, but he is not yet all-powerful. How does he go from becoming the leader of the Reichstag, to an unshackled dictator with nothing to check his power? *The Rest Is History Live...
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Books Referenced

The Pickwick Papers

Author: Charles Dickens

Context:

Tom compares the staccato style of Goebbels' diary entry to the character Alfred Jingle from this Dickens novel

The Coming of the Third Reich

Author: Richard Evans

Context:

Referenced as a source the hosts have 'quoted from fairly extensively in the last three episodes' regarding the rise of Nazi Germany

The Third Reich Trilogy

Author: Richard Evans

Context:

A book about conspiracy theories that 'came out about two years ago' which discusses theories about who set the Reichstag fire