Germany: from democracy to dictatorship, 1919-1939

AH History dissertations

Approved list of dissertations

Academic and AH resources and advice

Overview

Weimar Republic [Alpha History]

Nazi Germany [Alpha History]

Nazism: Weimar and National Socialism [Internet History Sourcebooks]

Defeat and the Treaty of Versailles

Aftermath of the First World War [Holocaust explained]

Treaty of Versailles [History.com]

Reaction to the Treaty of Versailles [National Archives]

Versailles Treaty [Spartacus Educational]

Reparations [Spartacus Educational]

Jun 28, 1919 CE: Treaty of Versailles [National Geographic]

Weimar Republic, 1918-1929

Weimar Republic  [Holocaust Explained]

Adolf Hitler attempts a coup, 1923 [Eyewitness to History]

Weimar Germany 1918-1924 [BBC]

Weimar Republic [History.com]

Stresemann

Weimar Republic, 1929–33

Rise of the Nazis – 6 part documentary, currently available on BBC iPlayer

The Reichstag Fire [Eyewitness to History]

Weimar Republic  [Holocaust Explained]

How the Depression helped Hitler come to power [BBC]

The National Socialist regime, 1933–39 

Nazi Germany [Alpha History]

Nazi Germany [Spartacus Educational]

Further watching

Weimar and Nazi Germany playlist – A long, long time ago YouTube channel .

Germany 1918-1945 playlist – Mr Allsop history revision YouTube channel

Rise of the Nazis is currently available on BBC iPlayer

Further reading

Why has Germany taken so long to pay off its World War I debt? [BBC. 2010]

The true story of the Reichstag Fire and the Nazi rise to power [Smithsonian Magazine]

Dreaming in black and white by Reinhardt Jung. Hannes is a disabled German boy. A school   [Library copy available]

Auslander by Paul Dowswell. Peter is a Polish boy adopted to grow up as a German in Berlin, troubled by the atrocities that he witnesses.  [Library copy available]

The book thief by Paul Zusak describes Liesel’s life as she grows up in Nazi Germany with foster parents.

Maus by Art Spiegelman is a graphic novel in which Nazis are portrayed as cats and Jewish people as mice, and tells  the story of one family’s fight for survival.  [Library copy available].

When Hitler stole pink rabbit by Judith Kerr

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