books on nazism: S/D

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"The Arms of Krupp" by William Manchester is fantastic, but it covers something like 400 years of Rhineland/Prussian/German/Euro history before it gets to the Nazis (whom it then gives a lengthy treatment). its long but the scope is huge and it's a good read.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679756868.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

although i do love whenever he interjects with a "I myself had a chance to witness this sturdy Teuton strolling down the lanes of Karlovy Vary in the tense days before the conference..." etc etc

I read too much Shirer in the end because I think in no less than three books he talks about seeing dumpy, out-of-shape British prisoners being ordered around by happy, healthy Germans. At least change your frickin' adjectives!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

glenn danzig to thread.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hitler
Tell your Gestapo not to come my way..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

ned clearly you need to see the danzig promo video from the first album, wherein glenn walks shirtless through his library.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think ANYONE needs to see that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, SO WRONG.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

YOUTUBE THAT, SON.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

some of it is on youtube! i can't find the particular library sequence i'm thinking of, tho.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd buy that for a dollar

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i started reading shirer's "the rise & fall of the third reich" a while back and i'm finding it pretty gripping so far, if a bit hard to read too much of at one time. i appreciate the sober, old-fashioned journalistic type angle.

My friend, a Russian Jewish godess who lived in Israel and now resides in Belgium, gave me the book saying I HAD TO READ IT. She now, after I kept reading trashy novels, ORDERED me to start reading the book after I finish Devil Wears Prada. She *claims* it's a fast read. Uh, I. Don't. Think. So. But hey I'll give it a try. I inflicted Dan Brown's book on her (saying it was popcorn though). Payback is due. ;-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Defying Hitler, the posthumously published 1930s memoir of Aryan emigree Sebastian Haffner, is definitely worth reading. It's been so long since I read it that I struggle to offer anything more than a recommendation, but Salon have an introduction/review: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/09/03/haffner/print.html

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone read "hitler's willing executioners"? judging from the reviews, not worth it, but it sure stirred up some shit for a while.

― j.d. (j.d.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i haven't -- but i think the one i linked to is maybe a kind of rejoinder to it?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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