The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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I am currently reading this book and it's AMAZING! I recomend this book to everyone here! Within the first few pages the author in detail explained the amount of documents the allies captured was masive. The writer claimed they captured 450 tons of NAZI paper work, that even included Diares of Nazi Officers to naval codes. I am currently reading the section on Hitlers rough teen years living on the streets for 5 years in Vienna. I didnt find it odd that at the age 17 Hitler was sick to his stomache with thought as labor as a job, and around age 19 he would sell his artwork to scrape by which was very poor actually. It's also interesting in how Hitlers father alois schicklgruber disapeared on him for 30 years only to come back to say your last name is now Hitler and not schicklgruber. Its an addicting book!

On a side note I'd like to make this a discussion thread about the book! For those of you who read it did you find anything that seemed false?

HEIL schicklgruber lol!

 

In my opinion a very good book. It is always a good idea to expand your resources since not any one author can get it all in one book. You will find some authors that embelished history. It is a matter of reading, comparing and analyzing. But this book I recommend

 

Not a bad book by any stretch of the imagination, but not as historically accurate as it seems at first glance.
It has been many moons since I read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (in the mid-sixties when it was a "new release"), I was if I am not mistaken in my Junior year of H.S. and quite taken with the book when I was 16. It contained much which seemed true at the time, but which I have since discovered were in reality Shirer’s selective memories, or mis-readings of the diaries of the Nazis, or the Nazis themselves not knowing the whole stories. Those portions addressing issues concerning Hitler’s personal life background were especially incorrect.

The Schicklgruber portion was just flat wrong, as was that part about his father "disappearing" for thirty years. Total bunk, Alois was married three times, and never "disappeared" from any of his wives, for any amount of time even though it is possible he had at least one other child besides those (8 or 9) he had with his last two wives. He (Alois) was also quite well to do for the times and place, and so Adolf was not from a "poor family". And Adolf was never a poor street urchin, or homeless, or anything of the sort either, he was known to be quite lazy as a youth however. Much to the chagrin of his father.

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Hitler name

For a better understanding of the name change. Alois had already been using the Hitler name for at least six months (by Jan 6, 1877), while married to his first wife. Even at that time the thirty-nine year old Alois Schicklgruber was officially and legally known as Alois Hitler. That he was using the Hitler name even before the "legitimacy papers" went through, shows that he intended to change his name one way or the other. This was all years before Alois even married third wife Klara (Adolf’s mother).

BTW, I much prefer his Berlin Diary to his later Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

 

A good book. But as already said. Many more facts have come to light in the time since he wrote this epic. But a good overall picture of the players and normal Joe taken at the time of great happenings.

Much more is now known, and re written if you like, but still a great read.

 

Thanks for your input!

 

One of the more interesting early books on the subject which is worth reading if only you read it once in your life.

 

I would recommend Richard Evan's trilogy, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and to be published soon the Third Reich at War.