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World War II: Catastrophe and Transformation

A guide of resources and primary sources for EUHI 214 with Prof. Moodie.

Sources

 

A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary / by Anonymous ; translated by Philip Boehm

 

Without hindsight : reminiscences of a German naval ensign / Gerhard Both

 

The war of our childhood : memories of World War II / [reported by] Wolfgang W.E. Samuel

 

Vernebelt, verdunkelt sind alle Hirne. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017037642

 

An uncommon friendship : from opposite sides of the Holocaust / Bernat Rosner & Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach

 

To lose a war : memories of a German girl / Regina Maria Shelton

 

Stille Sterben. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010034909

 

Steel boats, iron hearts [electronic resource] : a U-boat crewman's life aboard U-505 / Hans Jacob Goebeler with John P. Vanzo

 

Soldat : reflections of a German soldier, 1936-1949 / by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw ; assisted by Susan Davis McLaughlin

 

Sieg Heil! : war letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-1941 / compiled, edited, and translated by Horst Fuchs Richardson ; historical commentary by Dennis E. Showalter

 

The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood / Ursula Mahlendorf

 

Requiem for a German past : a boyhood among the Nazis / Jurgen Herbst

 

The Peenemünde wind tunnels : a memoir / Peter P. Wegener

 

Panzer leader / Heinz Guderian ; new introduction by Kenneth Macksey ; foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart ; translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon

 

Panzer commander : the memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck / Hans von Luck ; introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose

 

Neither fear nor hope; the wartime career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, defender of Cassino. / Translated from the German by George Malcolm. Foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart

 

Nasses Eichenlaub. English

 

Medical block, Buchenwald : the personal testimony of inmate 996, block 36

 

Krim-Kurland. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99261681

 

KL Auschwitz seen by the SS / Höss, Broad, Kremer ; selection, elaboration, and notes, Jadwiga BezwiƄska, Danuta Czech ; translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon, Krystyna Michalik

 

In exile: essays, reflections and letters, 1933-1947 / translated from the German by R. W. Last; biographical introduction by Terence Prittie

 

I joined the Russians; a captured German flier's diary of the Communist temptation

 

Hostage of the Third Reich : the story of my imprisonment and rescue from the SS / by Fey von Hassell ; edited by David Forbes Watt

 

"The Good old days" : the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders / edited by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess ; foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper ; translated by Deborah Burnstone

 

Good-bye to the mermaids : a childhood lost in Hitler's Berlin / Karin Finell

 

German voices : memories of life during Hitler's Third Reich / Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach

 

A German odyssey : the journal of a German prisoner of war / Helmut Hörner ; translated and edited by Allan Kent Powell

 

German generals of World War II : as I saw them / by F. W. von Mellenthin

 

Frauen : German women recall the Third Reich / by Alison Owings

 

The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945 / by Adolf Galland. Translated by Mervyn Savill; illustrated with photos

 

Embattled witness : memories of a time of war / Bernard Häring

 

Hitler's soldier in the U.S. Army : an unlikely memoir of WW II / Werner H. von Rosenstiel

 

Diary of a nightmare: Berlin, 1942-1945. / Translated from the German by Ewan Butler

 

The devil in France : my encounter with him in the summer of 1940 / by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated from the German by Elisabeth Abbott

 

Death dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz / by Rudolf Höss ; edited by Steven Paskuly ; translated by Andrew Pollinger

 

Christabel / Christabel Bielenberg

 

Childhood in Germany during World War II : the story of a little girl / Karla Poewe

 

The burden of Hitler's legacy / Alfons Heck

 

Berlin underground, 1938-1945 / Ruth Andreas-Friedrich ; translated by Barrows Mussey

 

Behind barbed wire : POW's in Houlton, Maine, during WWII / Milton A. Bailey ; [compiled and edited by Susan Bailey]

 

At Leningrad's gates : the combat memoirs of a soldier with Army Group North / William Lubbeck with David B. Hurt

 

The Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950 / by Elena Skrjabina ; translated, edited, and with a preface by Norman Luxenburg ; foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury

 

On Hitler's mountain : overcoming the legacy of a Nazi childhood / Irmgard A. Hunt