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George Steiner on Riefenstahl and the allure of fascism

Chapter 22: Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain

Chapter 21: Victory in the West

80 Years On

Rote and Demoralizing: Reading about Early WWII

Chapter 20: The Conquest of Denmark and Norway

Chapter 19: Sitzkrieg in the West

Chapter 18: The Fall of Poland

Podcast ep. 5: What American Reporters Saw That Others Didn't (Audio Only)

Chapter 17: The Launching of World War II

Chapter 16: The Last Days of Peace

Podcast ep. 4: The Exhilaration and Peril of Covering the Nazis (Audio Only)

Podcast ep. 5: What American Reporters Saw That Others Didn't

Ch. 15: The Nazi-Soviet Pact

Chapter 14: The Turn of Poland

Podcast ep. 4: The Exhilaration and Peril of Covering the Nazis

Chapter 13: Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist

Chapter 12: The Road to Munich

Chapter 11: Anschluss: The Rape of Austria

Who was William L. Shirer? part 2: The Nightmare Years 1934-1940

Rise and Fall Ch. 10: Hitler Purges Generals and Diplomats

Rise and Fall Ch. 9: The First Steps: 1934-37

Rise and Fall Ch. 8: Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37

Rise and Fall Ch. 7: The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34

If You've Fallen Behind on the Reading, This Post is for You

Interview with a 20th Century War Correspondent Jonathan Randal

Rise and Fall Ch. 6: The Last Days of the Republic, 1931-33

Rise and Fall Ch. 5: The Road to Power: 1925-31

Why are Dictators (and Techno-monarchs) Appealing?

The Problems with the German Character Explanation of the Nazis

Rise and Fall Ch. 4: The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich

Rise and Fall Ch. 3: Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch

A Historian's Take on a Journalist's History

Fun Archival Finds: The William L. Shirer Papers

Rise and Fall Ch. 2: Birth of the Nazi Party

The Man, The Myth: Hitler in American Culture

Rise and Fall Ch. 1: Birth of the Third Reich

And we're off!! — Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich Reading Group

Who was William L. Shirer? — part 1

Reading an Old Classic in a New Era

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