1. Germany and West Germany, 1918-1989 Wider Reading
Academic Writing
Fulbrook, M. A Concise History of Germany, Cambridge University Press (2004)
Hiden, J. The Weimar Republic, Seminar Staudies in History, Longman (1996)
Lee, S.J. The Weimar Republic, Question and Analysis in History, Routledge (2009)
Kitchen, M. A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present, Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
Carr, W. A History of Germany , Hodder Arnold (1991)
Lee, S.J. Hitler and Nazi Germany, Routledge (2009)
Williamson, D. Germany: From Defeat to Partition , Routledge (2001)
Hallett, G. The Social Market Economy of West Germany, Macmillan (1973)
Hiden, J. The Weimar Republic, Longman (1996)
Murphy, D., Morris, T. and Fulbrook, M. Germany , Collins Educational (2008)
Peukert, D.J.K. Inside Nazi Germany, Penguin (1993)
Bell, . P.M.H. The Origins of the second World War in Europe, Pearson Education Limited (2007)
Lang, S. and Kinloch, N. Nazi Foreign Policy, , Phillip Allan (2009)
Nicholls, D. Adolf Hitler: a Biographical Companion, ABC-CLIO (2000)
Overy, R. The Origins of the Second World War, Routledge (2008)
Things to research/watch
Find footage of the building of the Berlin Wall on the internet by searching ‘building Berlin Wall’.
Find footage of British newsreels of the Kapp Putsch protest marches in the FRG if you search the internet using the terms ‘Kapp Putsch’ or ‘Protest West Germany’ plus a date (for example, 1969).
An internet search on ‘Germany history documents and images’ will bring up a website that can be searched chronologically.
The Facing History and Ourselves website provides useful information about the economy of Weimar Germany, including personal accounts.
Footage of the book burning in Berlin in 1933 can be found on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
Colour footage of the 1938 Nuremberg rallies can be found online, although the sites often also contain neo-Nazi propaganda.
There is footage of some of Hitler’s speeches on the internet, for example, if you search ‘Hitler speech Sudetenland’.