GO TO MAIN COURSE  PAGE                   INTERNET SOURCES ON THE THIRD REICH             CLOSE THIS PAGE History of the Third Reich (HST 603 / CHST 603) Ryerson University - Toronto Instructor: Peter Vronsky  [ home page ]  NOTE:  All internet sources should be approached with caution.  University and school system based sites (.edu and some .org) and sites delivering copies of primary sources are more reliable, but not completely.  Information derived from the Internet should be cross-checked and verified through multiple sources before being trusted.  Do not automatically accept and believe anything you read on the Internet or for that matter, in books and other print as well (and obviously television documentaries.)  The most reliable print sources on Third Reich history are recently published academic books and journal articles issued by academic publishers with stringent peer review.   Some academic histories are also issued by commercial publishers as well.   This is not intended to dismiss non-academic histories, among which there are many excellent works, but those should be always approached with caution -- and not at all if they do not provide extensive footnoting and sources.   The best research strategy, as difficult as it is, is to always attempt to trace a statement back to its source and review it in the context it appeared in the source cited and further review that source's source, etc. These are some available sources on Third Reich history and their quality ranges from excellent to awful.  The inclusion of any source on this list is not to be interpreted as endorsement of a site's reliability or of its content. General Resources on the Third Reich Rise of Hitler and Nazi Party 1889-1933 (a version of the history) http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm  Third Reich In Ruins http://thirdreichruins.com/ Nazi Party 1934 - 1939 http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/index.html  Third Reich History Study Aids for British school system http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/gcsehistoryrevision_nazi.htm Nazi Party 1919-1924 - early history with additional Links http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/ASLevel_History/ Fordham University history sources (some links no longer active) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook43.html  Axis Biographical Research http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/index2.html Nazi history links from British educational site http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/alevel/modern_european_nazigermany.shtml primary sources on Third Reich http://www.mazal.org/Default.htm Nazi Germany Documents (German and some English translations) http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany Third Reich Fact Book http://www.axishistory.com/   Nazi propaganda samples http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm Meet the "real" Adolf Hitler - some fringe pseudo-history on Hitler http://www.reformation.org/adolf-hitler.html Wall Street and the Financing of Hitler  (disputed but useful citations of sources) http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html Gestapo Headquarter Berlin Museum  (Topography of Terror) http://www.topographie.de/en/index.htm A Collection of Unpublished Photographs of the Nazi Era http://members.aol.com/dennisr48/german/nazpics.htm A History of German Film (including Nazi propaganda films) http://members.tripod.com/michaelfussell/index.html The Horst Wessel Lied (Marching Anthem of the SA) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/horstwessel.html The Horst Wessel Lied (Audio Performed by the SA in the 1930s) horstw.wav The Hitler Youth (from the History Place) http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/index.html The Degenerate Art Exhibition (1937) http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artDegen.htm The German Propaganda Archive  (Excellent Collection of Images and Documents) http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm Nazi Propaganda Posters http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/8514/collection.html Mass Culture in Nazi Germany: The Power of Images and Illusions   http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~fc76/ Collection of Nazi Posters http://www.oldeagle.pp.se/post/  Nazi Party Rank Insignia http://www.uniforminsignia.net/?p=show&id=100&sid=586 Ranks and Insignia of the Nazi Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_and_insignia_of_the_Nazi_Party  SS Officer Research Link http://www.ssocr.com/webtv_index.html  German Intelligence Agencies http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/  http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/germany/hist-bkg.htm  Third Reich Military Resources German Armed Forces 1918-1945 http://www.feldgrau.com/  Captured  Trophies - Central Armed Forces Museum Russia http://www.armymuseum.ru/ww2vic_e.html The German Enigma (code) Machine http://home.us.net/~encore/Enigma/enigma.html http://www.xat.nl/enigma Waffen-SS -- Uniforms and History http://www.waffen-ss.com/page.php?page=1 Panzer German Tanks (Panzerworld) http://www.panzerworld.net/index.html  German Armor http://www.onwar.com/tanks/germany/index.htm  German Armor (Excellent Polish Site) - slow to open sometimes http://www.panzer.punkt.pl/index.htm TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces (US War Office) http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/tme30/index.html  Hitler's War Directives (English Text) http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1084/fuehrer_directives.htm  1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler http://www.geocities.com/wolfram55/index.html http://www.humanitas-international.org/archive/ss-leibstandarte-ah/ 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich http://www.dasreich.ca/  3d SS Panzer Division Totenkopf http://www.feldgrau.com/3ss.html 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg http://www.frundsberg.org/unithistory.htm 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Jugend http://home.att.net/~SSPzHJ/Index.html  Hungarian SS Legion http://philosophy.elte.hu/~jhardi/ss/ Luftwaffe -- Airforce http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/index.html  German Navy http://www.german-navy.de/ German and Axis Naval Losses http://www.naval-history.net/WW2WarshiplossesAxis.htm  U-Boats http://www.sharkhunters.com/  http://uboat.net/ Gliwice Radio Station Attacks 1939  [link1] [link2] The German War Machine http://www.germanwarmachine.com/index.htm  Operations on the Eastern Front and Balkans The Russian Battlefield http://www.battlefield.ru/ Nazi-Soviet Relations (German Foreign Office Doucments) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/nsr/nsr-preface.html German Campaigns in the Balkans - Spring 1941 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/intro.htm Battle of Stalingrad http://users.pandora.be/Stalin grad/  Battle of Kursk http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm  German Anti-Partisan Campaigns in the Balkans 1941-1945 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/antiguer-ops/AG-BALKAN.HTM  Rear Area Security in Russia -  The Soviet Second Front Behind German Lines (1951) http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/20240/20-240c.htm  Airborne Operations:  A German Appraisal http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/104-13/104-13.htm Military Improvisation During the Russian Campaign http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/milimprov/fm.htm  Night Combat http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/104-3/fm.htm Operations of Encircled Forces: German Experience in Russia http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/20234/20234.html  Battle for Moscow (1941) http://www.serpukhov.su/dima/war/eng/eindex.htm  Battle and Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) http://lenbat.narod.ru/eng/ Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) http://users.pandora.be/Stalin grad/  Battle of Kursk (1943) http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm  Soviet Military Maps http://mapww2.narod.ru/ Artifacts From the Third Reich German Daggers http://www.germandaggers.com/ German Helmets http://www.german-helmets.com/index.html Nazi Artifacts and Memorabilia http://www.ulric-of-england.com/milshop1.html Authentic Nazi Memorabilia - Rings, Daggers, Uniforms http://www.germaniainternational.com/third.html  Hitler Paintings and other Artifacts http://www.snyderstreasures.com/pages/hartworks.htm Other Nazi Loot and Artifacts http://www.snyderstreasures.com/  Fake Nazi Stuff ("Your Third Reich HQ") http://www.pzg.biz/uniforms.htm  Fake and Authentic Nazi Memorabilia http://www.thirdreich.ca/index.htm  Websites on the Holocaust Holocaust information site  (A Response to Holocaust Denials) http://www.nizkor.org/  The Holocaust Timeline (from The History Place) http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html#top Operation Reinhard Camps http://www.deathcamps.org/ Auschwitz KZ Memorial Museum Site http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/  The Auschwitz Album -  Photographic Record of a Transport 1944 http://isurvived.org/ State Museum of Majdanek http://www.majdanek.pl/en/  Anti-Jewish Legislation in Nazi Germany http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=5982  Holocaust Encyclopedia http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/ The German Army and Genocide http://www.cooper.edu/germanarmy/ The Wannsee Protocol http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/nazi/wanneng2.html http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-wannsee.htm The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/ The Simon Wiesenthal Center for Multimedia Learning http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=358201 A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/default.htm The Holocaust History Project http://www.holocaust-history.org/  Holocaust Resources http://remember.org/  Holocaust/Shoa Page http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holo.html Yad Vashem (Israeli Holocaust Memorial) http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/ Cyberlibrary of the Holocaust http://remember.org/index.html#Top The History and Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Dachau/  Holocaust and War Crimes Third Reich Fact Book (Einsatzgruppen Order of Battle) http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=216 The Einsatzgruppen (Description and Documents) http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/ Gestapo Headquarter Berlin Museum  (Topography of Terror) http://www.topographie.de/en/index.htm Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Holocaust LINKS) http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/Dinur/internetresources/holocauststudies.htm  Antisemitic Artifacts and  Concentration Camp Currency and Coins http://rosenblumcoins.com/israel/holocaust Florida Holocaust Museum http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/index.cfm  Dimensions - Journal of Holocaust Studies  (Anti-Defamation League) http://www.adl.org/braun/dimensions_toc.asp Himmler's Speeches Online Link Wannsee Protocols (complete text) http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Wannsee_Protocol Why No Holocaust in Bulgaria? http://www.b-info.com/places/Bulgaria/Jewish/ Radio Intercepts and Decrypts of Holocaust Communications http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00044.cfm  War Crimes & Trials War Crimes http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/war_criminals.htm Ravensbruck KZ and Medical Experiments Link The Avalon Project at Yale University -  Nuremberg Trials documents http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp Harvard Law School Nuremberg Trials Project http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/ The Avalon Project at Yale University -  Nazi-Soviet Relations documents http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/nazsov.htm    selected Nuremberg Trial transcript volumes online http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/  other Nazi war crime trials post-Nuremberg http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/Sitemap.htm  Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane France 1944 http://www.oradour.info/  Massacre of Lidice, Czechoslovakia 1942 http://www.lidice-memorial.cz/default_en.aspx http://users.pandora.be/dave.depickere/Text/lidice.html  Massacre at Ardeatine Caves, Rome Italy - 1944 http://www.zchor.org/italy/caves.htm Nazi Testimony  (links to original documents with focus on non-Jewish victims) http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/main.htm#1 The Nuremberg Trials (Court TV) http://www.courttv.com/casefiles/nuremberg/  Nazi Massacres and Atrocities in World War Two http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html  Forensic Handwriting Profiles of Nuremberg Defendants http://www.trialrun.com/id4u/nuremberg_profiles.html Sources on the Second World War "Nursing and Medicine During World War II"  new http://www.ceufast.com/articles/nursing-and-medicine-during-world-war-II.html British War Blue Book - Diplomatic  Documents (Outbreak of Hostilities Between  Britain and Germany Sept 3, 1939) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/bb/bb-preface.html  French Yellow Book - Diplomatic Documents (1938-39) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/fyb/fyb-preface.html  Events Leading Up To World War Two  (1931-1944)  US Congressional History (1944) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/events/ World War II in Europe (from The History Place) http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/  World War Two Sources (Primary Sources) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/ The German Armed Forces in World War II http://www.feldgrau.com Second World War (Collections of Links) http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-amw4.htm  http://history.acusd.edu/gen/ww2_links.html West Point Atlas Battle and Campaign Maps [ LINK ] World War Two Maps (University of Texas) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_ww2.html Chronology of World War Two http://www.onwar.com/chrono/index.htm  US Strategic Bombing Survey Report -  European Theater  (Jan 1947) http://www.angelfire.com/super/ussbs/index.html  US Strategic Bombing Survey Report - Germany (Sept 1945) http://www.anesi.com/ussbs02.htm  United States Army  Online History Library WWII - Europe Link  General  History Reference Sites Web Sources for Military History http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/military.html The Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html Eurodocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ The Avalon Project at Yale University (A Collection of Treaties, Legal Documents, and Other Sources) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm History Programs on Public Television http://www.pbs.org/history/ German History (Web Resources) http://www.h-net.org/~german/ The BBC Modern World History Page http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/mainmenu/mainhtm.htm The Third Reich Factbook http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/   Neo-Nazi & Holocaust Denial Websites The Stormfront Home Page (A Sample Neo-Nazi Page) http://www.stormfront.org/ David Irving Focal Point "Real History" Website http://www.fpp.co.uk/ The Zundel Site (Ernst Zundel's Website) http://www.zundelsite.org/ "Institute for Historic Review" http://www.ihr.org/ Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODHO) http://www.codoh.com/index.html NSDAP-AO (White Power Nazis in Lincoln, Nebraska) http://www.nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com/index.htm Volkermord - For A Dying Race http://gallery.volkermord.com/