Books like Germans into Nazis by Peter Fritzsche

A comprehensive study of Hitler’s rise and the conditions that enabled the Nazi takeover of Germany.

In the Nazi state, women had received the opportunity to create the largest women's organization in history, with the blessings of the blatantly male-chauvinist Nazi Party. Here was the nineteenth-century feminists' vision of the future in nightmare form. In this book I would bring to light the contribution to evil made by Scholtz-Klink and other women leaders, find out what they had done, what they believed they were doing, and why. I would ask how "normal" people (women, in this case) brought Nazi beliefs home in everyday thought and action. Above all, I would record the history of average people without normalizing life in Nazi society. Women's history during the Third Reich lacks the extravagant insanity of Hitler's megalomania; often it is ordinary. But there, at the grassroots of daily life, in a social world populated by women, we begin to discover how war and genocide happened by asking who made it happen. - Preface.

Jay Gonen argues that Adolf Hitler was not an isolated aberration but a mirror of early‑20th‑century German psyche, using psychohistorical analysis to show how Nazi ideology reflected and exploited widespread cultural anxieties about identity, expansion, and anti‑Jewish sentiment.