I just finished what it's considered the most complete Himmler biography by Peter Longerich ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11191214-heinrich-himmler?ac=1[1] ) and I was wondering if there is a consensus on must read books about the 3rd reich personalities.
I'm looking for the best Goebbels's and Hitler's biography I can find, but I'm open to suggestions for later. Is Albert Speer autobiography any good?
I'd recommend Ian Kershaw's books about Hitler. They are extensively researched, well written and informative.
Catherine Epstein's Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the occupation of Western Poland is an excellent recent biography of one of the functionaries of the Nazi expansion within the Third Reich.
A good counterpart for the Longerich biography is Robert Gerwath's Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. Gerwath does an excellent job of contextualizing Heydrich and how he was able to navigate the bureaucracy of the Third Reich to gain the status he desired.