New York: Basic Books, 2016. — 376 p. — ISBN 978-0-465-09655-8. In An Iron Wind, prize-winning historian Peter Fritzsche draws diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe tried to make sense of World War II. As the Third Reich targeted Europe's Jews for deportation and death, confusion and mistrust reigned. What were Hitler's aims?...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. — 288 p. ISBN 978-0-674-35092-2. Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people. Rejecting the view that Germans...
New York: Basic Books, 2020. — 432 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-887112-5. This unsettling and illuminating history reveals how Germany's fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the formation of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler. Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of...
М.: Мысль, 1968. — 348 с. Книга "Преступления против Европы" — одно из крупных исследований Вацлава Краля, известного чешского историка. В. Краль охарактеризовал политические и экономические цели германского империализма во время второй мировой войны. Он раскрыл систему чудовищных планов и практических мер гитлеровцев по истреблению евреев, народов Польши, Чехословакии,...