In the thirty years since the collapse of the Third Reich, books on Hitler and the Nazi regime have proliferated. But until now there has never been a complete Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, covering people, places, events, and slogans, and also political, social and cultural movements. Professor Snyder's book does this.
The scope, the scholarship and the precision of this book are extraordinary: included are a chronology of every important date from the fall of the Weimar Republic to 1945; a bibliography of every important book on the Third Reich; a bibliography of articles; entries on every important person; translations of every relevant German word; entries on every facet of World War II from the point of view of the Reich; general essays on art, architecture, film, theatre, music, sports, religion and education in Nazi Germany; and documents, many hitherto difficult to find, such as the Hossbach Memorandum of 5 November 1937, Hitler's Last Will, and his Political Testament of 29 April 1945.
All entries appear alphabetically under their most common German names, and full cross-references from the English names make the Encyclopedia remarkably easy to consult: e.g., the entries under Crystal Night and Night of the Broken Glass refer the reader to the .main entry under Kristallnacht.
Historian, scholars, students - indeed all readers - will find this the definitive work on this fateful era.