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 Weimar For
extensive
casahistoria
links to the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler
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Hitler
a biography from the Time 100 series. Holocaust
survivor Elie Wiesel discusses Hitler's impact on the 20th century.
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Germany:1900-45:
Comprehensive source based overview of Germany from 1914-45. Well
cross linked and excellent on content.
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A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler
Sara Salzman / The Nizkor Project Slow to load, so be patient, but excellent for those of you
studying charismatic leadership. Declassified documents from the U.S. Office
of Strategic Services. Offers extensive exploration of Hitler's character,
and examines his behaviour and its affect on the German people and his
associates. Describes events of his life through eyewitness accounts, as
well as Hitler's writings and speeches. Users can download images of the
original pages.
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Hitler
vs. History Pomperaug High School.
Information showing how Hitler's rise to power resulted from both the force
of his personality and the conditions in Germany after World War I. Offers
links to related sites.
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Adolf Hitler: Wavs
and Images
J.C. Kaelin / EarthStation1 Archive of photos, images, and
speeches of Hitler. Includes the BBC broadcast of his death.
- Photo Gallery: The Führer
and for the background see
Walter Frentz:
The Führer's Photographer
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Life in Hitler's Germany: 1933-39
and Hitler
and the
Nazi State: Power and Control
From the older website of
King David School. Worthwhile Very specific to UK examination courses but comprehensive notes and links to articles on each unit
as well as to sites of general help & support for students. The
site is now defunct. This is the Wayback copy. Most articles links are
still live however.
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The Secret
Diaries of Dr Morell, Hitler's Doctor
Pdf of the
controversial historian David Irving's 1990 edition of the lost diaries
of Professor Theo Morell.
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2. Hitler:
Background
Adolf
Hitler
Jennifer Rosenberg. Biographical timeline of
the dictator's life. Includes photographs and links to related sites.
Brief
Biography of Adolf Hitler From the BBC.
Succinct
Hitler's Family Tree
Jennifer Rosenberg / The Mining Company Graph of
Hitler's lineage.
Wiesenthal Center Biography
A short overview of Adolf Hitler's life,
taken from the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
Adolf
Hitler: Table of Contents
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Information on the German dictator. Includes an extensive biography as well
as documents and letters by Hitler on topics such as propaganda, the Soviet
invasion, and euthanasia.
Original Artworks By Adolf Hitler
This site is attempting to sell some of
Hitler's
early artworks, but more importantly, they show the drawings.
Adolf Hitler - Happiest Period of His Life
Article by Robert
Wohl, Univ of California on Hitler's response to World War 1. PBS
Great War site.
Hitler's Mountain Home: Homes & Gardens article
of Nov 1938.
Fascinating report from the 1930's described in
At home with the Führer
by Simon Waldman who came across
the featured article about Hitler's house, and posted it to his
weblog. This started a bizarre series of events that saw him
embroiled in legal wrangles and denounced as a Nazi sympathiser.
Guardian newspaper article, 2003
The
Rise of Adolf Hitler
The History Place Series of biographical articles
about the dictator. Details his life from birth through the takeover of the
German leadership in 1933.
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Hitler: ideas

Racial views
Letter from Hitler to Adolf Gemlich regarding the "Jewish question," written
Sept. 16, 1919
Nazi Racial Policy Pamphlet, 1934.This
is the text of a speech delivered by Dr. Walter Groß, the head of the Nazi
Party's Office of Racial Policy. He was speaking to a women's meeting at the
Gau Party Rally in Cologne on 13 October 1934. The text was widely
distributed. This is an interesting example of Nazi racial propaganda early
on in Hitler's regime. It does not mention the Jews directly, but lays the
foundation for anti-Semitism.
Hitler's Racial Ideology:
Content and Occult Sources
by Jackson Spielvogel
and David Redles. A complex article published by the Wiesenthal centre
drawing attention to some of the key concepts and influences on Hitlers
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Foreign Policy
For a comparison of the ideologies of left and right that were fundamental
to Hitler and National Socialism visit to the casahistoria
Ideologies of left & right page
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a) Leadership,
Party, Government & Control
Leadership
A useful (teacher's) Guide to Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian
State.
The Hitler Myth
From Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth": Image and
Reality in the Third Reich. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1987), 1-5. Published on the excellent
Mosaic
site
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Hitler's Leadership Style
- Führerprinzip
By Dr Geoffrey
Megargee. The image of Hitler as a meddler in military operations is
powerful and persistent. He was also stubborn, distrusted his generals and
relied too much on his own instinct. Geoffrey Megargee examines the
Führer's shortcomings as a military leader.
Structure of the Nazi
state
The Political System of the Third Reich
and
Hitler as Dictator
Articles by
Professor
Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College. From his lectures:
History of Modern Germany
Who Voted for the Nazis?
based on the article of this name by
Professor Dick Geary, History Today, October 1998
Workers and Nazis in Hitler's homeland
Public opinion
in Nazi Austria, 1938-45 Article by Tim Kirk, History Today. Looks at
support for the Nazi's in Austria §
Totalitarian Rule
Lecture by Prof Rempel, based on
Hans Buchheim, Totalitarian Rule: Its Nature and Characteristics (1968).
From his
lectures:
History of Modern Germany
Axis factbook features very comprehensive statistical
information (but no analysis) about military, political, and police
organizations as well as songs, photo gallery, and military equipment.
Remember that many of the items (especially photos) were produced by the
Nazi's specifically for propaganda purposes.
Their struggle
Interesting FT article by Niall Ferguson (2008). Looks at failure of the
Reich as colonising power in eastern Europe in the context of contemporary
colonial powers , UK & France in reviewing 'Hitler's Empire' by Mark Mazower.
The Nazi Party
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Nazi Officials (1)
How did a
young Austrian painter rise to be dictator? How did the Nazis use the
German constitution to gain power? Follow the rise of the Nazi officials
and the creation of the Third Reich.
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Nazi Officials
(2) From Martin Bormann to Rudolf Hess, find out more about various
Nazi officials through these links
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Heinrich
Himmler: Biography
From the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, this biography focuses on Himmler's role within the SS.
Topics include Himmler's ideological motivations and role in mass murder.
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Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler, from the
Spartacus site. Good sources to support the bio.
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"Party Time" The Temporal Revolution of the Third Reich
Dificult
article from History Today by Prof Roger Griffin which takes an
anthroplogical approach to the rise of nazism.
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Third Reich
Portraits & Photos
Good photos of leading Third Reich figures, not just Nazi's. Unfortunately the site is presented almost in an admiring way..
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Photographs of Nazi Officials
Control, Propaganda and Art
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Nazi Propaganda (1933-1945)
Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany. This section is a collection of
English translations of Nazi propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of
a larger site on
German propaganda. The goal is to help people understand
the great totalitarian systems of the 20th Century by giving them access
to the primary material. The archive is substantial.
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Power of Persuasion - Propaganda
David Welch in a History Today
article places nazi propaganda in a broader context. He argues that
propaganda has had an
essential, and not always dishonourable, role in conduct of affairs in
the twentieth century.
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Nazi Posters
BBC
By Professor David
Welch
Nazi Postcards
An auction site for Nazi memorabilia(!), but good images of an
intriguing aspect of "personal" propaganda
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The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany, 1933:
The American Response, detailed and well sourced article by Guy
Stern
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Wehrmacht Oath of Loyalty
On August 2, 1934, the same day Paul von Hindenberg died, Hitler made each
member of the armed forces swear an allegiance to Adolf Hitler. This is a
copy of the oath.
Triumph of the Will.
1997 History Today article by Brian
Winston looks at the problems of seeing the film purely as a piece
of propaganda.
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The Nazi
Olympics, 1936 Berlin
This site presents an online version of an exhibition created by the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC
Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl is a famous artist who greatly influenced the art of
film, but is best remembered for her Nazi past.
Reich Art
and "Degenerate" Art
Two well supported sites on art during the Nazi
period. Produced by the Florida
Center for Instructional Technology
Nazi & Soviet Art
Nazi
and Soviet political art movements
Exhibition of great German Art
In
German but good visuals
Otto Dix
Site dedicated to
the artist
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4. The Nazi State:
(b) Economics
Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank
(1933-1939)
Hitler's Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.
BusinessWeek
review article of the 1997 book by John Weitz. Good concise overview.
Albert Speer,
architect of the Third Reich:
lavish web site dedicated to
Speer..... despite that. His story is told and the site has good plans &
images of his designs for the future Germany.
Speer: the
final verdict. Worthwhile read of the 2001 review of the
Joachim Fest book in the New Statesman.
BBC Audio Interviews - Albert Speer
A series of brief, but valuable interview snippets with Speer in 1979.
An economy geared to war Richard Overy article from History Today, Nov 2001 outlining (in depth)
lessons Hitler drew for WW1.
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Hitler’s carmaker
- The inside story of how General
Motors helped mobilize the Third Reich. Very thorough article by
Edwin
Black, author of “IBM and the Holocaust".
Volkswagen and Hitler.
Illustrated history from the
German
Propaganda Archive.
Hitler was a leftist If you are still all at sea, these notes on: "On the Theory of the
Centrally Administered Economy: An Analysis of the German Experiment," by
Walter Eucken which present a short economic analysis of German Economy
under the Nazis. But!! You must scroll down to about the middle of the page for this part
from
San José State University, Department of Economics to begin!
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