I realize that the wars in Europe did not begin in 1933, however the activities of the NSDAP have been extensively documented and discussed.
I'm looking for a narrative history that covers Germany from 1918-1933, through such events as the declaration of the Bavarian Socialist Republic, the Freikorps suppression of the aforementioned, and the flowering of German art and science in the 1920s. I've her the last reference, but I've never read anything concrete.
I purchased The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933 by Thomas Childers, but it was more of a statistical analysis of German voting patterns. Useful data, to be sure, but not necessarily what I'm looking for.
One of the good starting points is volume one of Richard Evans's trilogy on the the Third Reich: The Coming of the Third Reich. It is a long book, but primed to be a clear introduction to the vagaries of Weimar and the cradle years of the NSDAP. For Weimar itself, there are two books that also serve as decent starting points. Eric Weitz's Weimar: Promise and Tragedy is one of a recent crop of books that acknowledges Weimar's problems, but notes the Republic was not preordained to fail. The second introductory text is Detlev Peukert's The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity is one of the clearer academic texts on the Republic. Peukert is more pessimistic about the Republic's chances than Weitz, but he still notes that 1933 was not a natural terminus for the Republic. Both books have slightly different focuses; Weitz is more concerned with cultural matters while Peukert hews to discussions of society, politics, and generational cohorts. But the two books in tandem do give a good picture of both Weimar and provide a glimpse into the larger historiography about this period of German history. Finally, there also is The Weimar Republic Sourcebook edited by Anton Kæs. This doorstopper is a collection of numerous primary sources that is properly contextualized. it provides a neat window into Weimar and serves as a good supplement to secondary sources like Evans or Peukert.