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10. Europe between the World Wars

Adamthwaite, Anthony P., ed. The Making of the Second World War. New York: Routledge, 1992. (Documents relatings to the causes of the war.) RVS: D 741 .A32 1992

Bowers, Claude Gernade. My Mission to Spain: Watching the Rehearsal for World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. RGC: DP 257 .B6

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer. Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. RGC: DA 566.9 .C5 A5 1989.

Goring, Hermann. The Political Testament of Hermann Goring: A Selection of Important Speeches and Articles. Arranged and translated by H. W. Blood-Ryan. London: John Long, 1939. (Period covered: 1933-1939. Author was the air minister in Nazi Germany and perhaps the number two leader in the Third Reich.) NRG: DD 247 .G67 A3 1972

Griffin, Roger, ed. Fascism. (Oxford Readers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (Contents in seven parts: Fascism in Italy; Fascism in Germany; Abortive Fascisms, 1922-1945; Theories of Fascism; Post-war Fascisms; Epilogue.) RVS: JC 481 .F3334 1995

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Unexpurgated ed. Two vols. in one. London: Hurst and Blacket, 1981. CYP, EVC, PIN, RVS: DD 247 .H5 A322 1981. (Copies of a 1971 edition [same call number except for the ending date] are at NRG and RGC.)

Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. (Comprehensive documentation of the culture and politics of Germany between the end of the First World War and Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.) NRG, RVS: DD 240 .W3927 1994

Noakes, Jeremy, and Geoffrey Pridham, eds. Nazism, 1919-1945: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts. Vol. 1: The Nazi Party, State and Society, 1919-1939. Vol. 2: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination. New York: Schocken Books, 1983, 1984, 1988. RVS: DD 256.5 .N365 1990

Noakes, Jeremy, and Geoffrey Pridham, eds. Nazism, 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader. Reprint with updated bibliography. Vol. 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1995. (This is the third volume of the collection of documents which precedes this entry.) RVS: DD 256.5 .N365 1990. V. 3

Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980. (Account, written in 1939, of Orwell’s experiences in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and 1937. Explains author’s disaffection with communism resulting from those experiences.) RGC: DP 269.9 .O7 1980

Owings, Alison.Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. New Brunswich, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993. (Author interviewed twenty-eight women in the 1980s. Most were neither Nazi Party members nor resisters to the Nazi movement and government. Text is a combination of quotations by the interviewees, paraphrases by the author, and her interpretations of the meaning of the interviews.) RGC: D 811.5 .O885 1993

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1970. (Memoirs of Hitler’s chief architect and director of munitions.) RVS: DD 247 .S63 A313 1970 (Another copy, with call number DD 247 .S63 A3132, is at NRG.)

Schumann, Willy. Being Present: Growing Up in Hitler’s Germany. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1981. (The first four chapters deal with the pre-Second World War period.) RGC: DD 247 .S384 A3 1991

Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. (Originally published, 1941.) NRG: D 727 .S529 (Another edition, with different publishing data, is at RVS D 727 .S529 1961b.)

Shirer, William L. “This is Berlin”: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany. Overstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 1999. (The relevant material, pp. 11-73, covers March 12, 1938-September 2, 1939.) NRG, RVS: D 743.9 .S5112 1999

Shirer, William L. Twentieth Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times. Vol. 1: The Start, 1904-1930. Vol. 2: The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1976 RVS: PS 3537 .H913 Z4617 1976

Snyder, Louis L. Hitler’s Third Reich: A Documentary History. Chicago, Ill.: Nelson-Hall, 1981. NRG: DD 256.5 .H536 1981

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