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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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Excellent.
The book is really long and goes into a lot of details, but that shouldn't be held against it. It seems like general knowledge about this subject is kept to the antisemitic atrocities, and stories tend to focus on concentration camps, military conflict, or underground movements and hiding. This leaves the Nazis as just some mystical thing that happened once upon a time. If there is any contextual knowledge known it is probably just remembered from highschool that the German people were down and Hitler promised to lift them up.
The book really gets into the socio-historical and upper level political action that led to the regime, its process, and collapse. It does a great job covering all the related material. Shirer both narrates the historical facts and progress of events and, when relevant, he discusses particular topics (e.g. Philosophical roots, the church in Germany, resistance movements, assassination plots, etc.).
I'm no historian, but this is a worthy read, and I've seen no fault in it.
The book is really long and goes into a lot of details, but that shouldn't be held against it. It seems like general knowledge about this subject is kept to the antisemitic atrocities, and stories tend to focus on concentration camps, military conflict, or underground movements and hiding. This leaves the Nazis as just some mystical thing that happened once upon a time. If there is any contextual knowledge known it is probably just remembered from highschool that the German people were down and Hitler promised to lift them up.
The book really gets into the socio-historical and upper level political action that led to the regime, its process, and collapse. It does a great job covering all the related material. Shirer both narrates the historical facts and progress of events and, when relevant, he discusses particular topics (e.g. Philosophical roots, the church in Germany, resistance movements, assassination plots, etc.).
I'm no historian, but this is a worthy read, and I've seen no fault in it.
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Reading Progress
January 21, 2012
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March 1, 2012
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Started Reading
March 1, 2012
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3.0%
"I don't think the prejudice and blindness of Hitler is as rare or great as the uniqueness of his name and the weight we put on his persona imply."
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March 13, 2012
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50.0%
March 17, 2012
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80.0%
March 19, 2012
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89.0%
March 22, 2012
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history
March 22, 2012
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non-fiction
March 22, 2012
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Finished Reading
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Mar 26, 2012 11:10AM
I agree with your review, this is a book that stayed with me. I will always be glad I read it!
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