Weimar For extensive casahistoria links to the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler

• Hitler a biography from the Time 100 series. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel discusses Hitler's impact on the 20th century.
• Germany:1900-45: Comprehensive source based overview of Germany from 1914-45. Well cross linked and excellent on content.
• 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.  §
• 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.  §
• 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
• 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. §
• 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 
   

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• 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's Book Mein Kampf Is Published The History Place. A synopsis of Mein Kampf and details about its publication.
• Notes in the draft of Mein Kampf Takes you through a selection of comments written on the draft by Hitler.
• Adolf Hitler's Thoughts on the End of World War I Jennifer Rosenberg. Excerpt from Mein Kampf
• Proverbial Manipulation in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf Wolfgang Mieder / De Proverbio. Thorough analysis of Hitler's use of proverbs in Nazi propaganda, using examples from Mein Kampf as well as select speeches and other texts. (You may need to disable popup blockers to access the site...)
• Nazi beliefs Despite its gothic layout this is a useful site from the Shoah Education organisation. Good descriptions, well presented to key elements behind nazi ideas.

• Adolf Hitler's First Anti-Semitic Writing, 1919  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 racial ideas. §

• Lebensraum This page will give background to the concept.
• Hitler, Stresemann and the Discontinuity of German Foreign Policy  By Edgar Feuchtwanger. A useful examination of the controversial issue of change and continuity in the foreign policies of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Examines the links between the high Weimar period and the FP of Hitler.

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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4. The Nazi State 

a) Leadership, Party, Government & Control

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Leadership

• Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian State 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

• Structure of the State and Hitler's Role by Dr Martyn Housden, University of Bradford. Adapted notes. Good on the historiography of the monolithic(?) state. §
• The Functioning of the Nazi Regime: State and Society. Clearly presented outline from the online textbook of Raffael Scheck, Colby College, Maine to accompaany his Lectures: Germany & Europe, 1871-1945.
• 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

• 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.
• Nazi Officials (2) From Martin Bormann to Rudolf Hess, find out more about various Nazi officials through these links
• 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.
• Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler, from the Spartacus site. Good sources to support the bio.
• "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. §
• 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..
• Photographs of Nazi Officials