| Memoirs,
Biography, Oral History
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Anti-Nazis
Survivors
- Hans J. Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi
Germany (Harper Perennial, 2001).
- Colette Waddell, Through the Eyes
of a Survivor (TopCat Press, 2007). (amazon)
about Nina Morecki, who settled in Santa Barbara and has worked
with Prof. Marcuse, by a former student in this same course
- Donald Niewyk (ed.) Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust
Survival (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). (amazon)
Children (note: some of these are not scholarly, and
thus may need additional research)
- Laurel Holliday, Children in the Holocaust
and World War II: Their Secret Diaries (Washington Square Press,
1996). (amazon)
- Deborah Dwork, Children with a Star:
Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (Yale University Press, 1993). (amazon)
- Nonna Bannister, The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of
Nonna Bannister, ed. Denise George and Carolyn Tomlin. (Tyndale House Publishers,
2009). (amazon)
- Thomas Buergenthal, A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz
as a Young Boy, (Little, Brown and Company, 2009). (amazon)
Children of Survivors
- Deborah Geis, Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's
"Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust (Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama Press, 2003). UCSB D810.J4 C665 2003 [this would only be acceptable
with more research on Maus as well.}
Youth
- Irmgard Hunt, On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi
Childhood (William Morrow, 2005). (amazon;
cf. Prof. Mahlendorf's book)
Women
- Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour:
Hitler's Last Secretary (Arcade Publishing, 2005).
(amazon)
There is a film about this: Blind Spot. Also, Downfall
is based on it.
- Angela Lambert, The Lost Life of Eva
Braun (St. Martin's Press, 2007). (amazon)
- Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting, The
Women Who Knew Hitler: The Private Life of Adolf Hitler
(Carroll & Graf, 2004). (amazon)
- Guido Knopp, Hitler's Women
(Sutton Publishing, 2006). (amazon)
six leading women
- Jurgen Trimborn, Leni Riefenstahl:
A Life (Faber & Faber, 2007). (amazon)
- Alison Owings, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (Rutgers
University Press, 1995). (amazon)(many
interviews; do about half)
Nazis
- Tony Atcherley and Mark Carey, Hitler's
Gay Traitor: The Story of Ernst Röhm, Chief of Staff
of the SA (Trafford Publishing, 2007). (amazon)
- Anthony Read, The Devil's Disciples:
Hitler's Inner Circle (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004).
984
pages (searchable
on amazon) appropriate for a group project (3 students)
- Mark Kurzem, The Mascot: Unraveling
the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood (Viking Adult,
2007). (amazon)
Nazi soldiers unknowingly "adopt" a Jewish boy
- Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones: A Novel. (Harper Perennial,
2010)(Mar. 09 Nation
review by Moyn; amazon)[note:
this is a novel--fiction!--but based on much research, a prize-winning,
engrossing read, also lots of pages, but as I said, I consider that)
- Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were
Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (University Of Chicago Press,
1966). (amazon)
- Leon Goldensohn, The Nuremberg Interviews (Vintage, 2005). (amazon)
- Mario Dederichs, Heydrich: The Face of Evil (Casemate, 2009).
(amazon)
Hitler
- Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped
His Life, 1st ed. (Vintage, 2010). (amazon)
- Erich Kempka, I Was Hitler's Chauffeur: The Memoir of Erich Kempka
(Frontline Books, 2010). (amazon)[not
yet available]
- Christa Schroeder, He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's
Secretary (Frontline Books, 2009). (amazon)[short,
you'll need some more background]
- Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler's Valet
(Skyhorse Publishing, 2009). (amazon)[will
need additional background, e.g. chaps from Hitler biographies]
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Teacher Laempel
from Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz (1865)