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Title: Essential reading for anyone
Review: No documentary, movie, video program, etc. can layout the history of the Nazis like this book. Although reading past this book would be a great investment in time and energy - one should at least start here (regarding a real study of history). The history channel can only go so far in presenting facts about Hitler and the Nazis, however; the devil is in the details, and Shirer's book is full of them. If one weren't to read this book and merely gather information of the subject from television, then that person would have to be considered ignorant on the subject. Other good recommendations: John Toland's Adolph Hitler (2 volumes); Gordon Craig's Germany 1866--1945; William Shirer's The Nightmare Years.
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