Book Reviews
Third Reich

"Unser Hitler". Der Hitler-Mythos im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945. Marcel Atze. Reviewed by Zeno Ackermann

The Third Reich: A New History. Michael Burleigh. Reviewed by Paul B. Miller

Widerstand ist nicht das richtige Wort. Katholische Priester und Theologen im Dritten Reich. Georg Denzler. Reviewed by Thomas Forstner

The Rise of the Nazis. Second Edition. Conan Fischer. Reviewed by Gisela Miller-Kipp

Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. Beth A. Griech-Polelle. Reviewed by John S. Conway

Defying Hitler: A Memoir. Sebastian Haffner. Reviewed by David F. Crew

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. Michael Hau. Reviewed by Paul Lerner

The Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii, A Philologist's Notebook. Victor Klemperer. Reviewed by Scott Denham

An Annotated Edition of Victor Klemperer's LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen. Roderick H. Watt, ed. Reviewed by Scott Denham

The Third Reich: The Essential Readings. Christian Leitz, ed. Reviewed by Nitzan Lebovic

Guderian: Panzer General. Revised edition. Kenneth Macksey. Reviewed by James V. Koch

Rüstungsforschung im Nationalsozialismus. Organisation, Mobilisierung und Entgrenzung der Technikwissenschaften. Helmut Maier, Hrsg. Reviewed by Paul Erker

Grüss Gott und Heil Hitler! Katholische Kirche und Nationalsozialismus in Österreich. Stefan Moritz. Reviewed by Thomas Forstner

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies. Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener, eds. Reviewed by Richard Weikart

An Artist Against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938. Peter Paret. Reviewed by Gudula Mayr

An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938. Peter Paret. Reviewed by Laird M. Easton

"Menschenmaterial": Deutsche Soldaten an der Ostfront. Innenansichten einer Infanteriedivision 1939-1945. Christoph Rass. Reviewed by Michael von Prollius

Flucht in die nationale Volksgemeinschaft. Das Erfurter Bürgertum zwischen Kaiserreich und NS-Diktatur. Steffen Rassloff. Reviewed by Jürgen Schmidt

The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Steven P. Remy. Reviewed by Mitchell G. Ash

Mathematicians under the Nazis. Sanford L. Segal. Reviewed by Volker R. Remmert

Exclusionary Violence. Antisemitic Riots in Modern Germany. Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, Helmut Walser Smith, Hrsg. Reviewed by Uffa Jensen

Ausländer im "Arbeitseinsatz" in Wuppertal. Zivile Arbeitskräfte, Zwangsarbeiter und Kriegsgefangene im Zweiten Weltkrieg.  Florian Speer. Reviewed by Horst Wessel

The Holy Reich. Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Richard Steigmann-Gall. Reviewed by Uwe Schmidt

Kunst- und Kulturgutraub im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Versuch eines Vergleichs zwischen den Zielsetzungen und Praktiken der deutschen und der sowjetischen Beuteorganisationen unter Berücksichtigung der Restitutionsfragen. Natalia Volkert. Reviewed by Nikola Doll

The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. David Welch. Reviewed by Eric Ehrenreich

The Third Reich. D. G. Williamson. Reviewed by Robert Stephens

Germany from Defeat to Partition 1945-1963. D. G. Williamson. Reviewed by Robert Stephens

Bürgerliches Wissen--Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft. Sprache in Goebbels' Zeitung Das Reich. Mathias Aljoscha Winde. Reviewed by Waltraud Sennebogen

Hitler's Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945. David K. Yelton. Reviewed by Larry V. Thompson

Das schwarze Korps. Geschichte und Gestalt des Organs der Reichsführung SS. Mario Zeck. Reviewed by Matthias Brosch

The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews. David Engel. Reviewed by Bruce Campbell

Literature at War 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany. Wolfgang G. Natter. Reviewed by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Nationalsozialistischer Terror gegen Homosexuelle. Verdrängt und ungesühnt. Burkhard Jellonnek und Rüdiger Lautmann, Hrsg. Reviewed by Martin Achrainer

Robert Gellately. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Reviewed by Eric A. Johnson

Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Robert Gellately.  Reviewed by Antoine Capet

Die Apokalypse in der Weimarer Republik. Jürgen Brokoff. Reviewed by Rüdiger Graf

Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order. Wayne H. Bowen. Reviewed by David A. Messenger

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. Christopher R. Browning. Reviewed by Joachim Lerchenmueller

Bürokratie und Terror. Das Judenreferat der Gestapo Düsseldorf 1935-1945. Holger Berschel. Reviewed by Ingrid Schupetta

Ethnic Minorities in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany: Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Turks and Others. Panikos Panayi. Reviewed by Tobias Brinkmann

Historiker im Nationalsozialismus. Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft und der 'Volkstumskampf' im Osten. Ingo Haar. Reviewed by Willi Oberkrome

Los nazis en Chile. Reviewed by Frank-Rutger Hausmann

Review of Papst Pius XII. und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Aus den Akten des Vatikans. Pierre Blet. Reviewed by Rainer Decker

"Zuviel Vergangenheit tut nicht gut!" Nationalsozialismus im Spiegel der Tagespresse der Zweiten Republik. (The Representation of National-Socialism in Austrian Newspapers after 1945) Heinz P. Wassermann. Reviewed by Alexander Pollak

Die Fuehrer der Provinz. NS-Biographien aus Baden und Wuerttemberg. M Kissener and Joachim Scholtyseck. Reviewed by Armin Nolzen

Carl Schmitt unde die Juden. Eine deutsche Rechtslehre. Raphael Gross. Reviewed by Wilfried Nippel

Dienen und Verdienen - Hitlers Geschenke und seine Eliten (Hitler's Willing Carpetbaggers). Gerd R. Ueberschaer and Winfried Vogel. Reviewed by Thomas Scheben

Review of Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. Omer Bartov. Reviewed by Gordon Fisher

Death Comes in Yellow. Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp. Reviewed by Mark Spoerer

Ikonen der Vernichtung, Oeffentlicher Gebrauch von Fotografien aus nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern nach 1945. Cornelia Brink. Reviewed by Ulrich Haegele

Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in 'Red' Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann. Reviewed by Michael C. Schneider

Hitlers Muenchen. Aufstieg und Fall der Hauptstadt der Bewegung, Aus dem Englischen von Karl Heinz Siber. David Clay Large. Reviewed by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann 

KZ der Gestapo. Arbeitserziehungslager im Dritten Reich. Gabriele Lotfi. Reviewed by Mark Spoerer

Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Evan Burr Bukey.  Reviewed by Milton Goldin 

Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. John Cornwell.  Reviewed  by Kevin Madigan 

Auschwitz: Nie davon gehoert? Erinnern und Vergessen in Deutschland. Alphons Silbermann, Manfred Stoffers. Reviewed by Jan-Holger Kirsch

1939: The Alliance that Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Michael Jabara Carley. Reviewed by William Keylor

1939: The Alliance that Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Michael Jabara Carley. Reviewed by Igor Lukes 

1939: The Alliance that Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Michael Jabara Carley. Reviewed by Robert Young 

1939: The Alliance that Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Michael Jabara Carley. Reviewed by Sally Marks

Der Mythos von der Modernitaet. Zur Entwicklung der Ruestungsindustrie im Dritten Reich. Hans Mommsen. Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Mark Spoerer

Kalkulierte Morde. Die deutsche Wirtschafts-und Vernichtungspolitik in Weissrussland 1941 bis 1944. Christian Gerlach. Reviewed by Isabel Heinemann

Ancient Siege Warfare.  Paul Bentley Kern. Reviewed by Kevin K. Carroll 

Sowjetische Militaeradministration in Deutschland (SMAD). Struktur und Funktion_. Quellen zur Zeitgeschichte. Jan Foitzik.  Reviewed by Joerg Morre

Der Gau der guten Nerven. Salzburg im
Nationalsozialismus. Ernst Hanisch.  Reviewed by Prof. Dr. Frank-Rutger Hausmann

L'Italia fascista e la Germania nazista. Alexander J. De Grand. by Elia Casali Vendemini

Die Wehrmacht. Mythos und Realitaet, im Auftrag des Militaergeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Rolf-Dieter Mueller und Hans-Erich Volkmann. Reviewed by Dennis Kuck

Die verlassenen Kinder der Kirche. Der Umgang mit Christen juedischer Herkunft im "Dritten Reich". Ursula Buettner und Martin Greschat. Reviewed by Guido Mueller

The Fascist Revolution. Toward a General Theory. George L. Mosse. Reviewed by Jens Hacke

Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus. Cornelia Schmitz-Berning. Reviewed by Frank-Rutger Hausmann

Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42.  Peter Witte, et al. Reviewed by Isabel Heinemann 

Niemand ist frei von der Geschichte. Reviewed by Jan-Holger Kirsch 

Wissenschaft im Dienst der nationalsozialistischen Politik? Reviewed by Markus Krzoska 

Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Entwicklung und Struktur. Ulrich Herbert, Karin Orth, und Christoph Dieckmann, Hrg. Reviewed by Angela Schwarz

Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, Tim Mason.  ed. Jane Caplan. Reviewed by David Schoenbaum

Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises, Steven E. Aschheim.   Reviewed by Keith H. Pickus

Republican and Fascist Germany: Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich, 1918-1945, John Hiden. Reviewed by Lee Blackwood

Nazism: A Documentary Reader 1919-1945, J. Noakes and G. Pridham, eds.,Vols 1-4 Reviewed by Milton Goldin

Nationale Frage und Vertreibung in der Tschechoslowakei und Ungarn 1938-1948: Aktuelle Forschungen, Richard G. Plaschka, Horst Haselsteiner, Arnold Suppan and Anna M. Drabek, eds. Reviewed by Philipp Ther

Endlösung: Völkerverschiebung und der Mord an den europäischen Juden, Götz Aly.  Reviewed by Doris L. Bergen

Politik mit der Erinnerung: Gedaechtnisorte im Streit um die Nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit, Peter Reichel. Reviewed by Stefan Gunther

Hungary at War: Civilians and Soldiers in World War II, Cecil D. Eby. Reviewed by N.F. Dreisziger

Germany 1870-1945: Politics, State Formation, and War, Peter Pulzer. Reviewed by Gene Mueller

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art, Hector Feliciano. Reviewed by Jonathan Petropoulos

Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka, eds. Reviewed by Josef Langer

Folklore and Fascism: The Reich Institute for German Volkskunde, Hannjost Lixfeld. Reviewed by Marion F. Deshmukh

The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich, James R. Dow and Hannjost Lixfeld, eds. Reviewed by Marion F. Deshmukh

Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich, David Clay Large.  Reviewed by Raffael Scheck

Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich, Martyn Housden. Reviewed by Richard Steigmann-Gall

The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany, Conan Fischer, ed. Reviewed by Shelley Baranowski

The Military in Politics and Society in France and Germany in the Twentieth Century. Klaus-Jürgen Müller, ed. Reviewed by Mark P. Gingerich, 12 April 1966

Art as Politics in the Third Reich. Jonathan Petropoulos. Reviewed by Marion F. Deshmukh

The Logic of Evil:The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933. William Brustein. Reviewed by David A. Meier

Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust. Phillipe Burrin.  Reviewed by Meredith Hindley

Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich. Doris L. Bergen.  Reviewed by John A. Moses

Biologists under Hitler. Ute Deichmann. Reviewed by Guillaume de Syon

Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris. Ian Kershaw. Reviewed by Milton Goldin. 

Unternehmen im Nationalsozialismus. Lothar Gall und Manfred Pohl, Hrg. Reviewed  Ulrich Marsch 

Die verlassenen Kinder der Kirche. Der Umgang mit Christen juedischer Herkunft im "Dritten Reich" Ursula Buettner und Martin Greschat. Reviewed by Dr. Guido Mueller