Third Reich Era

Events, organizations and personalities of National Socialist Germany – excluding war-related events (see “World War II”) and the alleged extermination events of the war period (see “Holocaust” & “Final Solution”).

How Hitler Consolidated Power in Germany and Launched A Social Revolution

I. Who Would End the Bankruptcy? “We have the power. Now our gigantic work begins.” Those were Hitler's words on the night of January 30, 1933, as cheering crowds surged past him, for five long hours, beneath the windows of the Chancellery in Berlin. His political struggle had lasted 14 years. He himself was 43,…

The Occult Roots of Nazism

The Occult Roots of Nazism, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, U.K.: Aquarian Press, 1985. Hardbound, 293 pages, illustrations, $23.50, ISBN 0-85030-402-4. Although the gas chamber mythos has been the center-piece of ongoing Establishment efforts to diabolize the Third Reich, there has been a parallel attempt to remove that epoch from objective consideration by casting it…

Aspects of the Third Reich

Aspects of the Third Reich, by H. W. Koch, (editor and author of the five introductory sections and two other sections). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Paperbound, 619 pp., bibliography, index. $15.95. ISBN: 0-312-00381-1. For the sake of understanding the general nature of this book, which is a sort of anthology by various specialists…

For Holland and for Europe: The Life and Death of Dr. M.M. Host van Tonningen

What is the point of speaking about the past? Why take another look at the worldview of my late husband, who was a National Socialist? Is there any point in speaking about such things in the liberal democratic era in which we live today? My answer is that there most certainly is, for it is…

Göring: A Biography

Göring: A Biography, by David Irving. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989, 573 pages, hardbound, $22.95, ISBN 0488-06606-2. David Irving is a British, non-academic historian, who has published many books in English and German on German historical developments in the 20th century. All his books have been based on exhaustive research. He is also…

Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935

Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935 by Rudy Koshar. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986, xviii + 395 pages, hardbound, $35, ISBN 0-8078-1694-9. By focussing on the “interpenetration of organizational and political life” as it took place in one German town from 1880-1935, Rudy Koshar sets out to provide…

Hitler’s Hometown

Hitler's Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945, by Evan Burr Buckey. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986, xv + 288 pages, hardbound, $27.50, ISBN 0-253-32833-0. Tracing the transition of Linz, Austria from a peaceful Danubian entrepôt in the waning years of the Emperor Franz Josef to one of Europe's major industrial and manufacturing centers, this comprehensive account…

The Negro Soldier

One piece of official US war propaganda is a wartime film (1945) entitled: The Negro Soldier. (http://tinyurl.com/9szf438) It was one of Frank Capra's “masterpieces.” Although Capra was not Jewish (which he regretted later in life as he explained as a reason for his not being much more successful in Hollywood), it seems that most of…

Fire Signal: The Reich “Crystal Night”

A half century ago, on the night of 9-10 November 1938, destructive riots against Jews, their stores and synagogues broke out in many German cities. The windows of many Jewish stores were broken and as a result this night is often designated ironically as “Reichskristallnacht” (National Crystal Night), referring to the glittering broken glass. The…

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