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>>10399808

It’s also wildly out of date, and not representing anything like contemporary scholarship.

Best Hitler Biography is by Ian Kersaw, best history of the Nazis is The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard Evans. Best one volume history of the War is The Second World War by Anthony Beevor. The former two exist as audiobooks on pirate bay.

The Hilberg one is also an excellent book, but I won’t personally recommend it as a first pass book really, I’d put it on the more advanced side.

Everything else that had been suggested are explicitly pro-Nazi.

The other source I’d recommend is the Teaching Company course on the early nazi movement. If you search on pirate bay “TTC Hitler” you’ll find it. It’s an 8 lecture audio course which gives you a great overview and will make a lot of the above books more intelligible on first pass. Both the Kersaw and Evans have really fantastic introductions on methodology and the Evans especially gives you a good run down of what the field of relavent literature looks like.

Probably the greatest history of the Nazis for the lay public that will ever exist.