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Amanda Eiler

Mr. Neuburger

English 101 Sec 130

1 April 2011

Annotated Bibliography

The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis

Barton, Dennis. "Hitler’s Rise to Power." The ChurchinHistory Information Centre. 11 June

2006. Web. 23 Mar. 2011.

This web site has percentages for population of different religions throughout Europe, who voted
for Hitler, political parties (The Hitler-led Coalition, Democratic, Communists). The text in this
document covers how he used the church and students in universities to gain control.

This will greatly help with the factuality of my paper and my outline.

Cross, Robin. Hitler an Illustrated. Quercus. Print.

As Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler exercised unrestricted power
over his country’s social, political and economic life. Hitler’s belligerent re-armament
programme, his imposition of anti-Semitic legislation and his territorially aggressive policies led
to genocide and worldwide conflict on an unprecedented scale. This book has a clear outline of
Hitler’s progress form his unhappy childhood as the son of a minor Austrian official in Braunau,
to his inglorious early occupation as a jobbing Viennese artist; form his formative experiences as
a corporal in the First World War, to his emergence as leader of the National Socialist Workers’
Party in the 1920s; form his extraordinary rise to supreme power in 1933, to his suicide amidst
the
ruins of Berlin in 1945.

biography of Hitler with many photos and inside stories of Hitler and his family. The description
in this book really helped me have a great picture of the way things really were for Hitler and life
during this time.

"From Unknown to Dictator of Germany." The Rise of Adolf Hitler. Web. 25 Mar. 2011.

<http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm>.

This site consists of 24 chapters that cover from the time Hitler was born through the joining of
the German workers' party and the rise of the Nazis, to the time he was dictator and ending with
his defeat. Great info, great site, lots of information that is grouped in easy link chapters.

This will be helpful in creating my outline. Easy to jump around and relocate information I want
to include into my paper.

Hett, Benjamin Carter. Crossing Hitler: the Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand. New

York: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.

This is the biography of Hans Litten. This book is "deeply serious in its purpose. Crossing Hitler
approaches a well-known subject from an unfamiliar angle. It is both an original account of the
lawlessness that accompanied the Nazi seizure of power and moving tribute to someone who lost
his life resisting the descent into barbarism." This book will give me a different view but I do
think that it will also have a great deal of information on a man that has only a small part to do
with my topics that will be covered in my paper. Crossing Hitler contains a few pictures and a
different view on the Nazi rise.

This read gives me a different look on a topic still the same. This really helped me get the full
picture of reason and logic during this period of time.

"Holocaust Survivor Fela Gipsman Testimony." Interview by Merle Goldburg. The Shoah

Foundation, 11 July 2009. Web.

Fela was born September 5th 1926 in Poland. She was born into a very well to do family. Fela
had a live in maid and book keeper. Her father traveled a lot to buy goods and sent them back
home. Fela’s uncle owned an oil factory and her mother helped with both businesses. The first
Fela heard about the war was when she heard the news at the age of thirteen in 1939 that Hitler
was going to invade Poland. From there things continued to get worse for the Jews. One night
there was a knock on the Gipsman’s door; they were told that an order was put in for one
hundred girls and their only daughter was to come with them. Fela’s father cried, pleaded and
tried to pay them instead. All of his attempts failed. From home Fela was brought to the first
camp which was Blahamad. This camp was, at this time, just a holding cell. From there Fela was
sent to Shoutslow. This camp was not a concentration camp, but an actual working camp. Fela
spent the whole time of the war inside this camp with one hundred and nineteen other girls. No
one else ever came and none of the girls were ever moved. For about a year she was able to write
her family and her family sent her food because the food at the camp made her sick because of
some stomach problems that she had. After a year this communication with Fela’s family
stopped, she believed that this happened because around the same time they were sent to a ghetto
and could no longer have the privileges of doing so. Fela was in this camp for two and a half
years. she believed that this camp was one of the worst and had no idea of any other camps being
any different or worse. After Fela and many others were liberated, she had found out that her
family had been sent to Auschwitz and did not survive. “We went through a lot, we came to the
United place (United States) which we are very grateful; for us it is the best country in the
world.” She goes on to tell her children, “never forget what happened remember you are Jews
and keep the children in Jewish schools and keep the tradition alive.” After the first news in,
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Jews were slowly stripped of their rights. It started with Jews not being able to attend public
school, a nightly curfew, food started to become scarce, all Jews had to be identified by an
arm-band, businesses were taken and then they, the Jews themselves, were taken away to the
ghettos. The camps were very similar too. She talked about very poor living conditions, manual
labor, regular beatings, and threatened with weapons. Fela camp was not as extreme as many of
the others she did not face a lot of the hardships that were faced in most other camps.

This interview helped me see that not every camp was the same. I never knew that there were
camps were people were not moved or killed. Her story was very different from anything I had
ever heard.

"Holocaust Survivor Mayer Adler Testimony." Interview by Merle Goldberg. The Shoah

Foundation, 15 June 2010. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.

Mayer Adler was born October 6th 1929 and was ten when the war began. Mayer and his family
lived in a small town in Hungry. The first of the war that he recalled was the news in 1941, that
some areas were starting to be evacuated and talk about being deported. Mr. Adler recalls big
bomber planes flying over head and many Jew’s passing through with horse and buggy. Then the
Jews in his town were slowly stripped of their rights. It started with Jews not being able to attend
public school, a nightly curfew, food started to become scarce, all Jews had to be identified by an
arm-band, businesses were taken and then the news came that they, the Jews themselves, would
be taken away. When the Mayer family came to terms with the fact that the Germans would be
coming to bring them to the “work camps” soon, Adler’s father strongly stressed his belief that it
would be best for the family to stay together so they can help one another. At this point Adler
started a trend of listing to his instincts and not so much what he was told. Adler decided to leave
before the Germans arrived, but ended up turning himself into the ghetto 12a in attempt to save
his family. From there they were transported by train to Auschwitz. He stayed there for some
time switching groups, unnoticed by the guards, and sticking with the “healthy looking men who
were in their middle thirties”. It was this strategy that got him out of Auschwitz and also through
many more camps; also kept him alive. He states that he was in Auschwitz running around
switching from group to group for about six weeks. Throughout the testimony I counted six
different camps that Mayer had gone through. All of their names were not clear to me but camp
number four was in Munich possibly called Munich. Camp number five he said was a number
“like seven or seventeen”. Though the camps were different the camp conditions were very
similar. Adler discribed very poor living conditions, manual labor, regular beatings, and
threatened with weapons. Mr. Mayer describes a time were many wanted to die and commit
suicide, also he saw many people brutally murdered, and in every camp he was in it seemed that
overcrowding was a major issue. When the camps were liberated he was so week and sick that
he was taken to a hospital and cared for by an American doctor. He was in the hospital for about
eight to ten weeks. Mayer found some cousins and spent some more time in Europe
before ending up in America. While in America he got a High school education and in 1951 was
drafted into the Korean war and shipped back to Germany. After the war he returned to America
and stayed. Mayer Adler left us with his lesson learned from his hardships as am I. It is a lesson
that one truly has to believe in to understand. His words to pass along, “you just have to go on
with life you can never give up, and hope that things will turn out, and somehow they do turn
out.”

Hughes, Matthew, and Chris Mann. Inside Hitler's Gremany. London: Brown Reference Group,

2000. Print.

This book covers topics ranging from the rise of Adolf Hitler and the prewar National Specialist
movement, to the Nazi government and life in Germany during WWII. Inside Hitler’s Germany
examines all aspects of life under the Nazis by drawing upon the personal experiences of
ordinary German soldiers and civilians. In this way the book provides a unique insight into what
life was like in a totalitarian society, how organizations such as the SS and Gestapo impinged
upon people’s lives, and the affect Nazi rule had on the economy, culture, and women’s rights.
This book also examines the attitude of ordinary Germans to racist policies, and their knowledge
of, and participation in the Holocaust.

I like how this book explains the ordinary Germans outlook and involvement in the Holocaust.
At first glance the picture on page 76 really bothered me. It is a picture of a family in the park,
smiles on their faces and the heading reads “Everyday life under Nazi rule”, but as hard as that
is to see when you grow up knowing all the bad it is the truth form many Germans and most
likely my ancestors. This book reads easy and shows a happy side to the Holocaust as well as the
horrible monstrous side.

McMeekin, Sean. The Berlin-Baghdad Express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for

World Power. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2010. Print.

“The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman
pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world.
Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey's
hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the
Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I -- Turkey's entry
into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution –
are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to
re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic
tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it
desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend
the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia's yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour
Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to
complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German
hegemony over the Middle East. “ This book also has pictures, maps, and important places as
well as people.
Whether or not I am able to read the whole thing I believe that this book will be
helpful to see the big picture of the events that occurred and an insightful outlook to the rising of
Hitler and the Nazis.
Mein Kampf, the Testament & Rise of Adolf Hitler. Artsmagic Ltd., 2006. DVD.
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In this film everything is taken from the original footage and actually happened in or time. It
tries to answer the burning questions I have such as what exactly happened during this terrible
time in our history and how it was made possible.

This movie will be very helpful in an outline, the origination and information found in my paper.

Nadler, John. A Perfect Hell: the True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special

Forces. New York: Presidio, 2006. Print.

This book features unforgettable portraits of men who achieved the impossible, including
Colonel Robert T. Frederick, whom Churchill called the greatest fighting general in history;
Mark Radcliffe, the first Allied soldier to enter Rome; and Joe Glass and Lorin Walling,
Legendary scouts and best friends that were interviewed exclusively for this book. This is a story
of the inspired leadership, victory, and unquestioning camaraderie.

I think that if I can finish this prior to the writing of the paper it will be a good source because of
the true full picture I will receive of these events.