Is it okay to ask for good history literature here?

by Shadow_Dragon_1848

If yes, than I would ask for the best books about the early days of Nazi Germany and how it came to be. Also from 1920 to 1933 and 1933 to 1939. I want to know more how Strasser and other people gave the Nazi party the opportunity to seize the Reich so fast and how they consolidated power up to 1939.

ChubbyHistorian

Two books I strongly recommend on this topic are those by the eminent historian of German social history Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power. The former charts the events leading up to the “national revolution” in 1933, while the latter is about the six years between seizing power and going to war.

What I think is so strong about them is their synthetic nature (basically using other historians work to provide a very accurate introduction to a non-specialist), their excellent writing, and the way they bring together contingency and structure.

crrpit

Hi there anyone interested in recommending things to OP! While you might have a title to share, this is still a thread on /r/AskHistorians, and we still want the replies here to be to an /r/AskHistorians standard - presumably, OP would have asked at /r/history or /r/askreddit if they wanted a non-specialist opinion. So give us some indication why the thing you're recommending is valuable, trustworthy, or applicable! Posts that provide no context for why you're recommending a particular podcast/book/novel/documentary/etc, and which aren't backed up by a historian-level knowledge on the accuracy and stance of the piece, will be removed.