1940s (back to top)

Concentration & Extermination Camps

• Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel, Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz (Penguin, 1992). (amazon)
• Eugen Kogon, The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). (amazon) (originally 1946)
• Laurence Rees, Auschwitz: A New History (PublicAffairs, 2005). (amazon)

Resistance & Rescue (Warsaw Ghetto)

• Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (W. W. Norton, 2007).
  (amazon) Rescue from the Warsaw Ghetto
• Kazik (Simha Rotem), Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter (Yale University Press, 2002). (amazon)
• Emmanuel Ringelblum and Jacob Sloan, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto (IBooks, Inc., 2006). (amazon)
• Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mariner Books, 1998). (amazon)

Children

• Laurel Holliday, Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries (Washington Square Press, 1996). (amazon)
• Deborah Dwork, Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (Yale University Press, 1993). (amazon)

US & the Holocaust

• Reinhold Billstein et al., Working For The Enemy: Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor In Germany During The Second World War (Berghahn Books, 2004). (amazon). Note: this is an anthology, but acceptable.
• Laurel Leff, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper (Cambridge University Press, 2006). (amazon)
• Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum, The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (University Press of Kansas, 2003). (amazon)
  note: this is an anthology, thus more difficult, but still acceptable (also as group project-2)
• Charles Higham, American Swastika: The Shocking Story of Nazi Collaborators in Our Midst from 1933 to the Present Day (Doubleday, 1985). (amazon)

Economics

• Henry Ashby Turner, General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker (Yale University Press, 2005). (amazon)
• Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (Crown, 2001). (amazon). This was a very controversial book. The author has a website.

Memoirs and Biography (back to top)

• Paul Bonart, But We Said NO: Voices from the German Underground (Mark Backman, 2007). (amazon). not at UCSB library. About a German arrested by the Gestapo in 1935. The author lives in the Bay area and is interested in what students think of his brand new book.
• Colette Waddell, Through the Eyes of a Survivor (TopCat Press, 2007). (amazon) about Nina Morecki, who settled in Santa Barbara and has worked with Prof. Marcuse, by a former student in this same course
• Tony Atcherley and Mark Carey, Hitler's Gay Traitor: The Story of Ernst Röhm, Chief of Staff of the SA (Trafford Publishing, 2007). (amazon)
• Anthony Read, The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004). 984 pages (searchable on amazon) appropriate for a group project (3 students)
• Gerald L Posner, Mengele: The Complete Story (Cooper Square Press, 2000). (amazon)
• Mark Kurzem, The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood (Viking Adult, 2007). (amazon) Nazi soldiers unknowingly "adopt" a Jewish boy
• Martin Doerry and John Brownjohn, My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944 (Macmillan, 2004). (amazon) (publisher)
• David Cesarani, Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" (Da Capo Press, 2007). (amazon)
• Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary (Arcade Publishing, 2005). (amazon) There is a film about this: Blind Spot. Also, Downfall is based on it.
• Angela Lambert, The Lost Life of Eva Braun (St. Martin's Press, 2007). (amazon)
• Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting, The Women Who Knew Hitler: The Private Life of Adolf Hitler (Carroll & Graf, 2004). (amazon)
• Guido Knopp, Hitler's Women (Sutton Publishing, 2006). (amazon) six leading women
• Jurgen Trimborn, Leni Riefenstahl: A Life (Faber & Faber, 2007). (amazon)
• Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (University Of Chicago Press, 1966). (amazon)

Post-1945 (back to top)

• Jan Tomasz Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation (New York: Random House, 2006). DS146.P6 G76 2006 (amazon)
• Genocide in Rwanda. There are a number of books that would be acceptable. I would expect that you be able to compare the causes of that genocide with the causes of the Holocaust as we investigate them in this course.
• Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (Princeton University Press, 2007). (amazon)
• Janina Struk, Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence (I. B. Tauris, 2004). (amazon)