An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

295: The Rise of the Nazis (Part 1)

January 16, 2023

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Where do the origins of Nazism lie? The Second Reich? Hitler’s time in Vienna? The First World War? Join Tom and Dominic in the first of their four-part series on the Rise of the Nazis as they...
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Books Referenced

The Escape Artist

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'

The Third Reich Trilogy

Author: Richard Evans

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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'

The Foundations of the 19th Century

Author: Houston Stuart Chamberlain

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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

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

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Explicitly mentioned as 'Mein Kampf, My Struggle, which he writes in the mid-1920s' - quoted from regarding Hitler's reaction to Germany's defeat

Hitler (biography)

Author: Ian Kershaw

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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