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...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer...
SINCE 1871, the "German problem" has been the focus of Eurpoean diplomacy. With the founding in that year of the Second German Reich, most of the vast German population of Europe was for the first time organized within a coherent political structure -- a structure which allowed it to compete for markets, power, and prestige with the traditional Powers, as a nation among nations. The "German problem" has been that, once organized, she was obviously the strongest of the Powers, and likely to win the competition hands down...
Ultimately, of course, the violence of the Reich (its anti-semitism, its insane Odin-ism, its rigidly-controlled economic life are all "violent" in this sense) found its foreign policy equivalent in a war against the whole world. But Taylor rightly treats the period prior to 1939 in terms appropriate to diplomatic history...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer...
...Life in Court, Nizer (1) 2. Calories Don't Count, Taller (2) 3. The Making of the President 1960, White (3) 4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (10) 5. My Saber Is Bent, Paar (6) 6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (4) 7. The Last of the Plantagenets, Costain (9) 8. CIA: The Inside Story, Tully 9. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (8) 10. Living Free, Adamson...