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Nazi Germany

1933–1945

Nazi Germany began when Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933 and the Nazi regime rapidly dismantled democratic institutions. The dictatorship rested on propaganda, terror, racial ideology, militarisation and the destruction of political opposition.

The regime drove Germany into expansion, war and genocide. Its policies included persecution of Jews and other targeted groups, aggressive foreign policy, occupation regimes across Europe and the systematic murder later known as the Holocaust.

Nazi Germany is a major setting for historical and alternate-history fiction. Robert Harris’s Fatherland imagines the continuation of a victorious Nazi state, while Munich and V2 use the actual regime at different stages: diplomatic intimidation before war and technological desperation near its end.

Related people for Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Barnes Wallis1887–1979 Benito Mussolini1883–1945 Bernard Montgomery1887–1976 Erwin Rommel1891–1944 Eva Braun1912–1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945 Guy Gibson1918–1944 Heinrich Himmler1900–1945 Hermann Göring1893–1946 Joseph Goebbels1897–1945 Joseph Stalin1878–1953 Otto von Bismarck1815–1898 Prince Philipp of Hesse1896–1980 Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet1892–1984 Wernher von Braun1912–1977 Wilhelm II1859–1941 Winston Churchill1874–1965

Series

Series about Nazi Germany (2 series)

Detective Sebastian Wolff Series in Order

by Rory Clements 2 books 4.5(2,071)

The Detective Sebastian Wolff series follows a Munich police detective attempting to investigate crime as Nazi rule destroys judicial independence. Beginning in the mid-1930s, the novels place disappearances, murder and political violence inside propaganda spectacles, party rivalries and the personal compromises demanded by dictatorship. Wolff’s professional duty repeatedly…

CI Schenke in Order

by Simon Scarrow 4 books 4.4(14,111)

The CI Schenke novels follow Berlin criminal inspector Horst Schenke during the Second World War. A professional detective who has avoided joining the Nazi Party, Schenke must solve ordinary crimes inside a dictatorship whose police, party and security organisations protect the powerful and turn private secrets into mortal…

Books

30 Best Novels About Nazi Germany

Non-Fiction

26 Best Non-Fiction Books About Nazi Germany

Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.