Nazi Germany - Unit XII: The War in Russia

Course Texts: Bessel, Richard, "Nazism & War" (New York: The Modern Library, 2004) Moeller, Robert G., "The Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History with Documents" (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010). Paxton, Robert O., "The Anatomy of Fascism" (New York: Vintage Books, 2004) Additional Reading: Robert Asprey, "The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I" Chris Bellamy, "Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War" Antony Beevor, "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943" Christopher Browning, "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland" Michael Burleigh, "The Third Reich: A New History" Randall L. Bytwerk, ed., "Landmark Speeches of National Socialism" Randall L. Bytwerk, "Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Antisemitic Newspaper Der Stürmer" Alan Cassels, "Fascism" Robert Cecil, "The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology" Thomas Childers, "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" Robert Conquest, "Stalin: Breaker of Nations." Max Domarus, ed., "The Essential Hitler: Speeches and Commentary" Richard J. Evans, "The Coming of the Third Reich" Richard J. Evans, "The Third Reich in Power" Richard J. Evans, "The Third Reich at War" David Faber, "Munich 1938: Appeasement and World War II" Joachim Fest, Speer: "The Final Verdict" Joachim Fest, "The Faces of the Third Reich" Shelia Fitzpatrick, "The Russian Revolution" Saul Friedlander, "Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. I: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939" Saul Friedlander, "Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. II: The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945" Robert Gellately, "Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe" Robert Gerwarth, "Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich" Gustav Gilbert, "Nuremberg Diary" Martin Gilbert, "The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War" Martin Gilbert, "The First World War: A Complete History" Richard Grunberger, "The 12 Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany" Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, "Hitler’s Willing Executioners" Alistair Horne, "To Lose A Battle: France 1940" Eric A. Johnson, "Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans" Ernst Jünger, "Storm of Steel" Michael H. Kater, "Doctors Under Hitler" John Keegan: "The First World War: A Complete History" Ian Kershaw, "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" Ian Kershaw, "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" Ian Kershaw, "The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945" Ian Kershaw, "The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich" Ian Kershaw, "Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution" Victor Klemperer, "I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941" Victor Klemperer, "I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945" John Lee, "The Warlords: Hindenburg and Ludendorff" Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide" Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, "War Land on the Eastern Front" Jay Lockenour, "Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Giles MacDonogh, "1938: Hitler’s Gamble" Mark Mazower, "Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe" Margaret McMillan, "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World" Robert G. Moeller, "The Nazi State and Germany Society: A Brief History with Documents" Dietrich Orlow, "The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History" Richard Overy, "Goering" Richard Overy, "The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia" Richard Over, "1939: Countdown to War" Robert O. Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism" Joseph E. Persico, "Nuremberg: Infamy of Trial" Robert N. Proctor, "The Nazi War on Cancer" Anthony Read, "The Devil’s Disciples: Hitler’s Inner Circle" Mark Roseman, "The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution" Gitta Sereny, "Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth" Robert Service, "Lenin" Robert Service, "Stalin" William Shirer, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" William Shirer, "Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941" Ronald Smelser, "The Sudeten problem, 1933–1938: Volkstumspolitik and the Formulation of Nazi Foreign Policy" Ronald Smelser and Rainer Zittleman, "The Nazi Elite" Ronald Smelser, "Robert Ley: Hitler’s Labor Leader" Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davis II, "The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture" Timothy Snyder, "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" Albert Speer, "Inside the Third Reich" Fred Taylor, "The Goebbels’ Diaries, 1939-1941" Toby Thacker, "Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death" H. R. Trevor-Roper, ed., "Hitler’s Table Talk" John Toland, "Adolf Hitler" Adam Tooze, "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" John Wheeler-Bennet, "The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics, 1918-1945" Michael Wildt, "An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office"