History UsefulNotes / NaziGermany

* In general, any book that openly admits on its blurb that it goes against the usual views of historians, especially if it implies that there is some sort of conspiracy to hide the "truth". This usually means the book is admitting that it is wrong. And while [[DatedHistory accepted wisdom has sometimes changed]], especially when new sources and ideas arrive, one book is not single-handedly going to do this.

Because of Nazi Germany's involvement in World War II and the unambiguous "evil-ness" of their racial policies, they make [[AcceptableTargets convenient enemies]] in fiction and VideoGames. Unfortunately, this has also resulted in people (at both ends of the political spectrum) [[GodwinsLaw using the term "Nazi" as an insult towards anyone with whom they may disagree]]. This practice is strongly discouraged in intelligent debate and is now considered a sign that the name-caller has no actual argument for their case. It's also important to note that just because the Nazis did something [[HitlerAteSugar doesn't mean that thing is inherently evil purely on account of that association]]. For example, the Nazis built the first modern highway network [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities (the Autobahn)]][[note]]The first Autobahn, however, was opened in 1932 by then mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer - the Nazis later demoted it to just a normal road and they did enact the programs to build thousands of kilometers of Autobahn that had been drawn up but shelved in the 1920s[[/note]], and it's safe to say that highways are not evil. [[Literature/GoodOmens Probably]].

* ''Enfin...Redde m'r nimm devon'' (''At last... let's not talk about it anymore''), the best known play by Creator/GermainMuller, takes place during the de facto annexation of Alsace by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944, which saw a brutal germanization and nazification and the conscription of many young men (including Germain himself) in the German armies.

* ''Film/{{Kolberg}}'', 1945 -- A film about the defense of Kolberg during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars. The most expensive picture to be produced during the Third Reich era, it saw a ''very limited'' release in early 1945 due to Germany being invaded and roads being under constant Allied air attacks. The movie paints a picture of Kolberg being successfully defended against overwhelming odds (glossing over such "minor details" as Britain and Russia being Prussian allies at the time) which was intended to inspire Germans to fight to their last breath rather than to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm give up on the hopeless and lost war]].

Many works that are set during TheGreatDepression or very early World War II but do not take place in Germany will nonetheless refer to it one way or another. Usually through newspapers or the radio or by having the protagonist go to a movie theater that screens {{Newsreel}}s from Europe (real life footage from Nuremberg rallies and Hitler's pre-war speeches, usually).

* ''Film/{{Rosenstrasse}}'' depicts the early 1943 Rosenstrasse Protests in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} -- German wives who protested against the deportation of their Jewish husbands, a rare time Nazi authorities actually relented on one of their genocidal pursues.

* ''[[Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheThirdReich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich]]'' by William L. Shirer, who was a radio correspondent for CBS in Germany and Austria until 1940, and actually witnessed some of the events he wrote about, like the 1934 Nuremberg rally, the Anschluss, and the French surrender in June 1940.[[note]]Though slightly dated now, it was at the time so successful that it actually got him off Joe [=McCarthy's=] blacklist through sheer force of sales.[[/note]]

Because of Nazi Germany's involvement in World War II and the unambiguous "evil-ness" of their racial policies, they make [[AcceptableTargets convenient enemies]] in fiction and VideoGames. Unfortunately, this has also resulted in people (at both ends of the political spectrum) [[GodwinsLaw using the term "Nazi" as an insult towards anyone with whom they may disagree]]. This practice is strongly discouraged in intelligent debate and is now considered a sign that the name-caller has no actual argument for their case. It's also important to note that just because the Nazis did something [[HitlerAteSugar doesn't mean that thing is inherently evil purely on account of that association]]. For example, the Nazis built the first modern highway network [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities (the Autobahn)]][[note]]The first Autobahn, however, was opened in 1932 by then mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer - the Nazis [[EvilIsPetty later demoted it to just a normal road]] and they did enact the programs to build thousands of kilometers of Autobahn that had been drawn up but shelved in the 1920s[[/note]], and it's safe to say that highways are not evil. [[Literature/GoodOmens Probably]].

* ''Series/BabylonBerlin'' - The final years of the Weimar Republic as the country slowly heads towards 1933.
* ''Series/TheCherryQueen'' (''Die Kirschenkönigin'') - The life of a German Jewish woman from World War I to the end of World War II, including her choosing to stay, dealing with increasing persecutions and eventually hiding.

This page is about the National-Socialist (shortened as "Nazi") era in UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, when the nation was under the dictatorship of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and his Nazi Party. Commonly known as "Third Reich" (or "Hitlerian Reich" / "Hitlerian Germany" in some countries), it lasted from 1933 to 1945.

* ''Series/TheCherryQueen'' (''Die Kirschenkönigin'') - The life of a German Jewish woman from World War I to the end of World War II, including her choosing to stay, dealing with increasing persecutions and eventually hiding.

* ''The Pink Swastika'' by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. Dismissed as pseudo-history by most historians for invoking GodwinsLaw as part of an overall homophobic agenda, this book alleges that the Nazi Party was run by a homosexual elite and that their "super-manliness" drove the militarism of the Third Reich. To begin with, most of the major Nazis were heterosexual men, including Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, and Heydrich. The only major one who was inarguably a homosexual, Ernst Röhm, was executed in 1934. The Nazis persecuted homosexuals to a far greater degree than during the Weimar Republic, with thousands ending up in concentration camps.

* ''The Alternative Hypothesis'' (''La part de l'autre'') by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt has two parts, one part is AlternateHistory and the other is RealLife. The WhatIf point concerns Adolf Hitler being admitted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1907 in the former, and him being rejected from it in the latter.

* ''Series/TheCherryQueen'' (''Die Kirschenkönigin'') - The life of a German Jewish woman from World War I to the end of World War II, including her choosing to stay, dealing with persecutions and eventually hiding.