Books like Hitler by Rainer Zitelmann

A comprehensive history of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, detailing the rise of Adolf Hitler and the collapse of the Third Reich during World War II.

"This book presents the whole of the social spectrum in German society, from the elites to the middle class to the workers, in which the Nazi party was never a separate element but an inextricable part of the increasingly politicized social reality of Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. Issues of anti-Semitism and race are of course paramount, but The Social History of the Third Reich pays close attention to the roles that economics and class also played in shaping the Germany of the Third Reich."--BOOK JACKET. "Aycoberry presents the stories of collaboration and complicity of German citizens as well as those of violence and repression."--BOOK JACKET.

This book is a major new biography -- an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler’s childhood to his failures as a young man in Vienna to his experiences during the First World War to his rise as a far-right party leader. Ullrich deftly captures Hitler’s intelligence, instinctive grasp of politics, and gift for oratory as well as his megalomania, deep insecurity, and repulsive worldview. Many previous biographies have focused on the larger social conditions that explain the rise of the Third Reich. Ullrich gives us a comprehensive portrait of a postwar Germany humiliated by defeat, wracked by political crisis, and starved by an economic depression, but his real gift is to show vividly how Hitler used his ruthlessness and political talent to shape the Nazi party and lead it to power. For decades the world has tried to grasp how Hitler was possible. By focusing on the man at the center of it all, on how he experienced his world, formed his political beliefs, and wielded power, this riveting biography brings us closer than ever to the answer. - Publisher.

A scholarly examination of Adolf Hitler through the lens of his many biographers, analyzing how historians’ biases shape the portrayal of the Führer and the historiography of National Socialism.

Benjamin Carter Hett explains how political missteps, populist insurgencies, and a fragile Weimar Republic ushered Adolf Hitler into power, offering a stark lesson on the fragility of democracy in 1930s Germany.