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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by journalist William L. Shirer was the first definitive history of Nazi Germany in English. This image is a book cover. ...
Shirer after winning a National Book Award in 1961 for his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pictured with fellow authors and award winners Conrad Richter and Randall Jarrell. ...
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Shirer after winning a National Book Award in 1961 for his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pictured with fellow authors and award winners Conrad Richter and Randall Jarrell. ...
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
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Shirer, an American radio reporter for CBS, covered Germany for many years until December 1940, when increasing Nazi censorship of his broadcasts made work impossible for him. This 1,245 page book, first published in 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. and still in print, colors its historically accurate information with denunciation of Nazism and tyranny. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ...
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The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: , or NSDAP, commonly, the Nazi Party), was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ...
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The book is based largely on the captured documents of the Third Reich, including the diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and General Franz Halder. Additional major sources include testimony and evidence from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the detailed diary of Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Italian Foreign Minister. Other sources include confidential speeches, conference reports, taped transcripts of telephone conversations, as well as Shirer's personal recollections during the six years he reported on the Third Reich as a journalist. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
Paul Joseph Goebbels (German pronunciation: IPA: ) (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. ...
Franz Halder Franz Ritter Halder (June 30, 1884 – April 2, 1972) was a German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler. ...
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Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ...
At the time the book was written, only a part of the diaries of Goebbels was known. Other documents have been discovered and many documents have since become available from Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Goebbels is a surname common in Rhineland derived from Göbbl, a nickname for the names Godebald and Godebert. ...
The book was adapted into a television program for the ABC network in 1966. It was one of the first programs to be marketed as a miniseries. A biological adaptation is an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection such that it increases the expected long-term reproductive success of the organism. ...
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Criticism
The book has been met with criticism from the scholarly community. The general complaint is that the title lacks the level of scholarly attention, use of sources, and quality of writing necessary to qualify it as a "scholarly" or "academic" work. Nonetheless, they accept it as a usable popular history or a passable narrative for the beginner.
A number of historians have expressed opinions in this vein:
- "It is too long and cumbersome...it is not sufficiently scholarly nor sufficiently well written to satisfy more academic demands. Mr Shirer, has, however compiled a manual ...which will certainly prove useful. " - Elizabeth Wiskemann, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 37, No. 2. (Apr., 1961), pp. 234-235
- "Shirer's history of the Third Reich is woefully inadequate. Shirer's monumental narrative does not rise above the most commonplace level of understanding. The inadequacies of Shirer's account could be dismissed...if his book had not found an enormous audience. Shirer's [writing] facility.. does not compensate for this book's essential weakness as history." - William O. Shanahan, The American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 1. (Oct., 1962), pp. 126-128.
It includes many of his speculations, such as a footnote that theorizes that Heinrich Mueller, an SS chieftain, later went to serve in the NKVD, which has no basis in fact or evidence, but is clearly marked as such. Heinrich Müller (1900-1945?) was the head of Nazi Germanys RSHAs Amt IV and led the Gestapo from 1939 until his mysterious disappearance at the close of the World War II, on the 29th of April, 1945. ...
SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop...
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Publication | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | | Genre | Documentary | | Running time | 120 minutes | | Director(s) | Mel Stuart | | Starring | | | Music by | Lalo Schifrin | | Country of origin | | | Release date(s) | 1968 | | IMDb profile | | All Movie Guide profile | The book has been reprinted many times since it was published in 1960. Current in-print editions are: Documentary evidence is any evidence introduced at a trial in the form of documents. ...
Mel Stuart is an American film director born in 1928. ...
Lalo Schifrin Lalo Schifrin (born on June 21, 1932) is an Argentine Jewish pianist and composer, most famous for composing the burning-fuse theme tune from the Mission:Impossible television series. ...
- ISBN 0-671-72868-7 (Simon & Schuster, US, 1990 paperback)
- ISBN 0-09-942176-3 (Arrow, UK, 1990 paperback)
- Folio Society Special Book Club Edition (2004 Hardback)
The Luttrell Psalter (2006) Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1962) The Wind in the Willows (2006) The Folio Society, founded in 1947, is based on the fringes of Bloomsbury, London. ...
See also Berlin Diary (1934-1941) is a first-hand account of the rise of the Third Reich and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer. ...
Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. ...
The Collapse of the Third Republic, An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1969, deals with the collapse of the French Third Republic in 1940 at the outset of Hitlers Western invasion during World War II. Categories: | | ...
The is an index of all the films that deal with the Holocaust period in Europe approximately 1938-1945. ...
External links - The reception of William L. Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' in the United States and West Germany, 1960-62 (limited access jstor link). by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, in: Journal of Contemporary History v29.n1 (Jan 1994): pp95-128.
- Online WWII references
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