An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
295: The Rise of the Nazis (Part 1)
January 16, 2023
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Jonathan Freedland
Context:
Referenced when discussing their previous podcast episodes about Auschwitz - 'the story of the escape artist, the man who escaped from Auschwitz'
Author: Richard Evans
Context:
Mentioned as 'his magnificent books on the Third Reich' and 'the first volume of his great trilogy on the Third Reich' - described as the work of 'the great British historian of the Third Reich'
Author: Houston Stuart Chamberlain
Context:
Explicitly mentioned as a work that refines ideas about history being forged by competition between races, positing Aryans and Jews as the two great races in contest for global supremacy
Author: Adolf Hitler
Context:
Explicitly mentioned as 'Mein Kampf, My Struggle, which he writes in the mid-1920s' - quoted from regarding Hitler's reaction to Germany's defeat
Author: Ian Kershaw
Context:
Multiple references to Kershaw's biography of Hitler - 'Kershaw says in his biography' and 'Ian Kershaw in his biography describes him' - discussed as a major scholarly work on Hitler's life