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1. The Variational Principles of Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics)

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2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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3. The Coming of the Third Reich

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4. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

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6. Inside the Third Reich

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7. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume I: Maximilian I To The Peace Of Westphalia, 1493-1648 (Oxford History Of Early Modern Europe)

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8. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe

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9. Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

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10. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

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11. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military

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12. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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13. A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People

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14. Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

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15. Fighting with the German Longsword

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16. The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Classic Military History)

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17. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement

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18. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich)

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u/randomnewname · 2 pointsr/history

All the podcasts already mentioned are amazing, I highly recommed Hardcore History and History of Rome to start. [Western] history begins with the Greeks and the Romans, I personally find the Romans far more fascinating (and History of Rome covers it all, sorta, hooray!). A great read for the Greeks is Persian Fire by Holland (already mentioned and my favorite history author). You can continue learning about Rome by listening to 12 Byzantine Rulers by Lars Brownworth. If you learn Roman history you follow a timeline from 750 BC to 1450 AD. In Our Time is produced by the BBC and covers a ton of subjects.

Almost every old text is already posted on Librivox, and lots of lesser know works. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and The History of the Peloponnesian War are two very famous ones. I personally enjoy Jacob Abbott with Richard I-III being pretty good. It's all read by volunteers so some tolerance is expected.

You have months if not years of free podcasts to listen to, however I also love Audible for history. One of my favorites is The History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill, all four volumes are on there; it covers mostly British history, but much of Europe and all of American history (his telling of the Revolutionary and Civil wars are amazing) from before Romans to 1900 AD. You can also listen to the whole book if you liked Brownworths podcast on Eastern Rome/Byzantium.

Since you don't know where to start I'll just list some of my favorites. The Vikings influence on history is quite enthralling. The story of the fall of the Roman Republic is the best there is. Hannibal of Carthage is easily one of the most famous generals of all time, so you might as well enjoy the Battle of Cannae.

One of my favorite reads is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, it's like the tv show Band of Brothers...but you're Hitlers brother, and you learn how frighteningly easy it all was (and you get a great understanding of Russia). Honestly though, just listen to all of Dan Carlin's podcasts, my favorites being Bubonic Nukes and Prophets of Doom (this one takes a while to get going, but the decent into madness is fascinating). Understand that not everything is going to be accurate, so enjoy the stories but dont focus on memorizing the details, and if something interests you enough seek out some deeper material on it.

edited some more links.

u/Eusmilus · 11 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Every time questions similar to this pop up, people recommend Neil Gaimen. Well, his book is not bad (I own it), but recommending it to a person asking for a detailed recount of the original myths is downright silly. It's a pretty short collection of myths retold into short-stories by Gaimen. They're well written and absolutely closely based on the original myths, but he still invents new stuff, and again, it's a novel-like retelling, not a detailed account of the actual myths. Here are some further suggestions:

Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H.R. Ellis Davidson is a great and thorough description of Nose myth and religion by an acclaimed specialist in the field. It's also laymen-friendly.

The Poetic Edda is arguably the single most important source of Norse myths. It's a collection of poems, written down in Christian times but many dating to well into the Pagan era. I've linked the new translation by Jackson Crawford (whose channel is great for learning about Norse myth, btw), but there are others.

Then there's the Prose Edda, which is likewise a very important original source. Whereas the Poetic Edda is a collection of poetry, the Prose Edda sees many of them retold into more consistent prose narrative (hence the title). As a source, however, the Prose Edda is less reliable than the Poetic, since the latter is a collection of actual Pagan myths, while the former is a compilation and retelling by an (early medieval Icelandic) Christian.

The Sagas of Icelanders important sources to Norse myth and particularly religious practice. The Sagas are actual prose stories (and good ones, too), written in the first few centuries after conversion. Figures from Norse mythology, particularly Odin, are often prominent, but the narratives tend not to primarily concern the mythology.

A notable exception is the Saga of the Volsungs, which is one of the most important narratives in Norse myth. Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's works were both heavily influenced by it. The Volsunga Saga features Norse gods, viking raids, dragon-slaying and much more.

There are more good books, but those ought to be a decent start.

u/introspeck · 3 pointsr/reddit.com

Decades ago, I read an essay where the author claimed that the natural, entropic state of human societies was some form of fascism/feudalism. At the time I was outraged, thinking that we've made such progress that he could not be correct! But I've since come to agree with him. We really do have to fight to get a free and tolerant government, but if we say "yay! we did it!" and relax, we can expect to see it slide back toward rigid authoritarianism.

Everyone says that they love freedom, but a majority of people are secretly afraid of it. They'd rather have a secure predictable life over freedom, because true freedom includes the freedom to fail.

> undergone this process ever notice or fix these things.

The book that opened my eyes to how this can happen in real life (as opposed to 1984 or Animal Farm or It Can Happen Here - all excellent books, but fiction) was: They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

u/freakscene · 2 pointsr/IAmA

I second the reading idea! Ask your history or science teachers for suggestions of accessible books. I'm going to list some that I found interesting or want to read, and add more as I think of them.

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. Title explains it all. It is very beginner friendly, and has some very entertaining stories. Bryson is very heavy on the history and it's rather long but you should definitely make every effort to finish it.

Lies my teacher told me

The greatest stories never told (This is a whole series, there are books on Presidents, science, and war as well).

There's a series by Edward Rutherfurd that tells history stories that are loosely based on fact. There are books on London and ancient England, Ireland, Russia, and one on New York

I read this book a while ago and loved it- Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk It's about a monk who was imprisoned for 30 years by the Chinese.

The Grapes of Wrath.

Les Misérables. I linked to the unabridged one on purpose. It's SO WORTH IT. One of my favorite books of all time, and there's a lot of French history in it. It's also the first book that made me bawl at the end.

You'll also want the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Federalist Papers.

I'm not sure what you have covered in history, but you'll definitely want to find stuff on all the major wars, slavery, the Bubonic Plague, the French Revolution, & ancient Greek and Roman history.

As for science, find these two if you have any interest in how the brain works (and they're pretty approachable).
Phantoms in the brain
The man who mistook his wife for a hat

Alex and Me The story of a scientist and the incredibly intelligent parrot she studied.

For a background in evolution, you could go with The ancestor's tale

A biography of Marie Curie

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston is a quick and easy read, and very heavy on the adventure. You'll also want to read his other book The Hot Zone about Ebola. Absolutely fascinating, I couldn't put this one down.

The Devil's Teeth About sharks and the scientists who study them. What's not to like?

u/wheres_my_vestibule · 3 pointsr/Physics

The Variational Principles of Mechanics by Lanczos is an amazing book for understanding calculus of variations. The majority of it covers ODEs rather than PDEs / field equations, but to be honest the book is so good that the generalization to field theory is almost obvious. It does have a chapter or two on fields though. The book has the most beautiful economy of words I've ever seen in a textbook, concise and yet crystal clear. Also, the book is cheap! Just $16 at Amazon right now. It's definitely written for physicists, it's not a math book at all.

I can't say enough good things about this book. Reading it was the first time I understood calculus of variations. He actually explains what you are doing conceptually when you vary a path, whereas I feel like most physics books introduce it solely as a mathematical manipulation. I finally gained a good intuition for it.

My introduction to calculus of variations in field theory came through classical electrodynamics in Landau & Lifshitz and Jackson. I agree that those books don't tell you at all how it works; they just start performing manipulations and you just follow what they do.

u/KanzlerAndreas · 4 pointsr/AskHistorians

Thank you for referring my answer! First time this has happened to me on here (not that I answer very many or often)!

In re-reading my answer linked above, I realize now I forgot perhaps the most important part in my excitement of (essentially) being asked to talk about one of my favorite subjects: citations for further reading! I will remedy my error now for this repeat of the question.

In addition to the linked answers above, here are a few books for additional reading:

German History Since 1800, edited by Mary Fulbrook. It's a collection of essays on various subjects within the last 200 years about Germany, and covers the 2nd Reich very well, with brief mentions of the First Reich.

A history of Germany, by Peter Wende. A broader history, including the Holy Roman Empire/First Reich.

A Mighty Fortress, by Steven Ozment. Also a broad history, covering the roughly 2000 years of German history.

I select these as places to begin or for the casual interest. There are plenty of options for very detailed studies on each Reich or specific parts of their histories. Check your local library for one or a similar one! If visiting a public library, check the 943 area of adult non-fiction (ask a librarian for help, if needed), if the library uses Dewey Decimal. If it uses Library of Congress Classification, German history should be in the DD range. These are the two most common system in American libraries. If you're not in the States, then I don't know where such information would likely be found (again, ask a librarian! We love helping find information!).

Further, some games can be useful in providing some background. The Civilization series I mentioned in my linked answer always has reasonably detailed history files in it. Civ IV, specifically, includes both the Holy Roman Empire and Germany as playable civs, with Charlemagne and Bismarck as playable leaders. Both civs and leaders have good history files. Europa Universalis IV offers a simulation of the HRE's institutions, however simplified it may be. This can provide a bit of insight on how difficult the empire was to manage for the kaiser, showing how disagreement can hinder his goals. I offer these as another alternative, for anyone who enjoys a good game with some historical learning thrown in.

u/lurker093287h · -6 pointsr/SubredditDrama

>if history is written by the winners, why then are so many books extolling robt. e. lee?


>if history is 'written by the winners' then who how did this get published?

>why, if 'history is written by the winners' are people still able to purchase Hitler's 'opus magnus' just about anywhere?

This is pretty funny drama but this bugged me a bit, I'm not a 'race realist' or whatever, but 'history is written by the winners' has a bunch of meanings, one of them I guess is 'nobody gets to write history except the winners and those who side with them' but to other people it means that generally the mainstream narrative of popular history follows who has power and 'hegemony' in society. I think this is much closer to the truth; for example, if the first world war had been won by Imperial Germany the narrative about German aggression and desire to bring about a Europe that was economically and culturally dominated by Germany would be very different, the same with US bombing of Japanese cities in the second world war and hundreds of other examples, Napoleon would be seen as a hero outside France if he'd managed to impose his French dominated Europe, etc, etc. This is true especially within the lifetime of the polity or group who are being written about.

The cases of Japan and the defeated Southern states are interesting because, iirc, they were essentially allowed to reconstruct a narrative that treated their war aims and motivations favourably (or focused on members/bits who were honourable etc) because of the elites reaching accommodation with the victorious powers. The Southern states had the Jim Crow period and Japan had MacArthur's 'reverse course' where rolling back the ultra nationalist/fascist-ish state, limiting the power of bureaucrats, business families and the mafia was reversed, partly because of the US need for a strong Japan to combat east Asian nationalism or 'communism' etc.

u/PancakesHouse · 67 pointsr/politics

I posted this in another thread, but going to post it again here since it's relevant.

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I feel like we should be mailing textbooks/memoirs on fascism/authoritarianism to our representatives...

I thought about organizing a gofundme to send the same book to all Republican representatives (senate and congress) from Amazon, but I think it would be more effective if it was sent from individual constituents in the rep's districts. I personally feel powerless since all my representatives are democrat, but I think it would send a really powerful message if people in red districts sent copies of books directly from Amazon. It would only cost around $10 to do that, and you can include a gift message with your address and why you're sending it.

People smarter than me probably have better suggestions, and could even point out passages that should be highlighted and bookmarked, but here are a few suggestions off the top of my head:

u/B-80 · 2 pointsr/math

There seems to often be this sort of tragedy of the commons with the elementary courses in mathematics. Basically the issue is that the subject has too much utility. Be assured that it is very rich in mathematical aesthetic, but courses, specifically those aimed at teaching tools to people who are not in the field, tend to lose that charm. It is quite a shame that it's not taught with all the beautiful geometric interpretations that underlie the theory.

As far as texts, if you like physics, I can not recommend highly enough this book by Lanczos. On the surface it's about classical mechanics(some physics background will be needed), but at its heart it's a course on dynamical systems, Diff EQs, and variational principles. The nice thing about the physics perspective is that you're almost always working with a physically interpretable picture in mind. That is, when you are trying to describe the motion of a physical system, you can always visualize that system in your mind's eye (at least in classical mechanics).

I've also read through some of this book and found it to be very well written. It's highly regarded, and from what I read it did a very good job touching on the stuff that's normally brushed over. But it is a long read for sure.

u/Dear_Occupant · 63 pointsr/history

The transformation of the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich was gradual.

> "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

> "This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

> "You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

> "Those," I said, "are the words of my friend the baker. ‘One had no time to think. There was so much going on.’"

> "To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

> "How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

> "Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something—but then it was too late."

> "Yes," I said.

> "You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

> "Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

> "And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

> "But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

> "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

> "And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

> "You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

> "Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

Herman Mayer - They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

u/Knowledge_420 · -22 pointsr/offlineTV

Ehh, I more feel like myself, and any other like minded individual has an absolute responsibility and duty as both American citizens, and as human beings who would like to see our fellow men & women we share this planet with live, happy, healthy, fulfilling lives. From that perspective, the current president of the United States is one of the single greatest existential threats to any of us getting to see a more prosperous of brighter tomorrow.

He is a would be tyrant, who maybe just maybe, is too stupid and incompetent to stage a hostile takeover of our democratic republic. But we can not allow ourselves to become complacent in the security of our lives ever again, and we must strive everyday to do everything we can to rid ourselves of this cancer sooner rather than later.

I'm done now, I've said my piece...I'll do my best to avoid politics on this board going forward. Just know that no matter how safe and insular your life feels, tyranny can always be around the next corner.

https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928

u/Feuersturm-CA · 3 pointsr/history

Most of my knowledge regarding the matter is European, so I'm going to give a list of my favorites regarding the European / African front.

To get the German perspective of the war, I'd recommend:

  • Panzer Commander - Hans von Luck - One of my favorites

  • Panzer Leader - Heinz Guderian - He developed Blitzkrieg tactics

  • The Rommel Papers - Erwin Rommel - Written by my favorite German Field Marshal up until his forced suicide by Hitler. Good read of the Western and African theaters of war. Also a good book to read if you're interested in what German command was doing on the lead up to D-Day.

    I have a few battle-specific books I enjoy too:

  • Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 - You really don't know the brutality of Stalingrad till you've read this book. You'll see it in a whole new light I think.

  • Berlin: Downfall 1945 - Battle of Berlin at the end of the war, another good book.

    Now if you want to play games, Hearts of Iron series is great (someone recommended the Darkest Hour release of the game. Allows you to play historical missions based on historical troop layouts, or play the entire war as a nation. Historical events are incorporated into the game. While you'll rarely get a 100% accurate game as it is abstracted, it is an excellent way to see what challenges faced the nations of the time. You could play as Russia from 1936 and prepare yourself for the eventual German invasion. Or maybe you decide to play as Germany, and not invade Russia. But will Russia invade you when they are stronger? Will warn you: It does not have a learning curve. As with almost all Paradox Interactive games, it is a learning cliff.
u/jschooltiger · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

Hi there, I am not a professional naval historian (my master's was in American history, post civil war) but I have read quite a bit on the topic. Several books come to mind:

u/scienceistoohard · 2 pointsr/math

I can't recommend much in the way of math books, but I can give you some more hints on what you should be looking for and reading about.

The specific problem that you've asked about isn't quite undergrad level material, unfortunately. Here's a document that introduces most of the relevant topics:

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/sasane/ma305.pdf

I can't guarantee that it will be helpful, but everything in that document is relevant to what you're looking for. You might use the table of contents or the introductory section to prime your wikipedia searches.

Basically, you specifically want to learn about optimization theory (which is what a lot of control theory is about).

Optimization, at its most basic, is not hard. An example of an optimization problem is to find the value of x that minimizes (or maximizes) some function f(x).

This is something that's covered in basic calculus. If f(x) has only one minimum/maximum (aka an extremum), then you can solve the problem easy by solving the equation df(x)/dx = 0.

Things get harder when you have constraints - maybe you want the value of x such that a<x<b, that minimizes f(x). In that case you use things like lagrange multipliers and the KKT conditions, which allow you to deal with constraints on your solutions.

I linked to wikipedia there, but the wiki pages aren't necessarily the best resources for learning this stuff. If you search for those things, though, you'll find a lot of good resources, because many people are in the same boat as you about this stuff.

Your problem is a bit trickier than basic optimization, though - in your case, you're trying to minimize a functional, which is a function that takes another function as an argument, and returns a number. The solution to that problem is a function. So, instead of using regular calculus and finding where the derivative is zero, you use variational calculus and find where the derivative is zero.

I can't recommend a specific book about this subject, but I can recommend a book that's very closely related: The Variational Principles of Mechanics. It's an excellent physics book that explains things in terms of variational calculus. The principle of least action is one way of solving physics problems, and it's very similar to the problem that you're asking about.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/books

You proabbly won't get a good one on the entire war. for the german history, I highly recommend the Richard J. Evans Trilogy, for the pacific conflict, I would recommend Retribution. The Evan's work was simply amazing, the best work since Shirer. Your best histories of the American, British, Japanese and Russian perspectives are going to probably come in the form of Biographies of key players, I just haven't found a singular work with quite the depth of the two I mentioned above. The history channel actually did a series just recently that didn't completely suck, and had quite a lot of amazing footage, that was well edited together: WWII in HD

u/anautisticpotato · 0 pointsr/worldnews

> and "no" is a pretty childish answer

Well I was trying to be succinct and let the sources speak for themselves. Your point, as I took it, was that the existence of Kurdistan was not something that was really up for discussion and the only reason I'd think it was is because I'm on reddit. When in actual fact, it was far more of a contested issue than it is now, and Churchill's willingness to poison them into submission to our civil service is well known and well documented. Take it or leave it, but I wasn't letting you get away with your crap without at least being corrected.

If you're really interested in learning more about this I'd suggest Churchill's nobel prize winning History of the English Speaking Peoples. He goes into great detail. It's a long book, by a primary source, so you might not like it.

u/barkevious · 1 pointr/books

Antony Beevor's Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 were superb narrative histories of World War Two in the East. On the American end, the first two volumes of Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy - An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle are great. I think somebody else mentioned The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Just the first paragraph of that book is worth the price of the paperback.

If you're not into the whole military thing, The Worst Hard Time by Tim Egan covers the dustbowl era in the southern plains. Reads like an epic novel.

All of these suggestions prioritize craft of writing over intellectual rigor. I studied history, so I have a keen appreciation for the value (and the limits) of academic history. These books are not that sort of history, though I don't think any of them get any facts egregiously wrong. It's just that they're remarkable for being well-written - which should appeal to a fiction enthusiast - not for being pathbreaking academic treatments of their subject matter.

u/Hergrim · 1 pointr/Fantasy

Oooooh, I'm actually not all that familiar with Early Modern Germany, but I think I've found a few books that may help you with the religious, political and military aspects. Some of these books are pretty expensive, so I'd recommend finding a good library or seeing if your local library does inter-library loans with larger libraries. Usually you have to read the books pretty quick, but it saves paying $150 for a book if you're not in a position to do that. Just be sure to take plenty of notes!

I'd also be willing to look at what you've got but, like I said, I may not be as useful as I first thought.

The Reformation: A History

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

The Rise of Modern Warfare: 1618-1815

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe

The Witchcraft Sourcebook

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume I

Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600

Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany

Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany

Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms

He Is the Sun, She Is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life

The Lesser Key of Solomon

The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570

u/banal_penetration · 3 pointsr/AskHistorians

Figes' The Whisperers is very good. Funder's Stasiland is a good read, but a little too journalistic to be good history.

Slightly more off-beat, but fascinating and well worth reading is Speaking with Vampires by Louise White.

u/MahatmaGandalf · 1 pointr/explainlikeimfive

This should be at the top, as it really helps to rephrase the question. To anyone else interested: energy conservation is a direct consequence of an "action principle" combined with a symmetry, so the question should instead be,

"Why is nature so well-described by action principles, and why is physics invariant if you shift the time coordinate?"

This is stuff that physicists still debate and try to understand, so you're not going to get a definitive answer.

But you can get some intuition about why these things should be true. For the second question, it's pretty natural to think of all times as being "equivalent" in the eyes of physical law. Then it makes sense that shifting in time should be a symmetry.

Unfortunately, the former question is a little harder to dig if you're five. If anybody is interested: one way to understand it is to get a physical intuition for D'Alembert's principle. Doing some work then gets you to Hamilton's principle, which is what the first question is talking about; see e.g. chapter 5.1 of this book for a derivation.

u/NewMaxx · 1 pointr/books

"The Thirty Years War" by Peter H. Wilson.

I try to read at least one history book a month, although it's often slow going. This one is pretty dry even by those standards but the political ministrations are quite interesting. I would probably not suggest it to the casual reader. A good place to start for those interested in history is probably "The Coming of the Third Reich" by Richard J. Evans.

u/EnlightenedMind_420 · 1 pointr/politics

I feel the urge to post this link anytime a conversation gets to this point: https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928

You are of course right in everything you say, the only point I have to diverge with you on is I am one of those damned optimists. My rose hued view of it is just as you say, we manage to stage a fair enough election to take back congress this fall, and then yes, the system works as it was always intended to work at that point. We impeach him, and who gives a fuck if he wants to leave or not at that point? He HAS to leave, it is required of him the minute he is impeached, if he refuses he can fully legally be dragged form the White House in shackles at that point.

I guess I just have faith that even Trump's apparently utterly insane base, will at the moment we are about to go over the presipice, wake the fuck up and open their eyes. Keep in mind, we don't need all of the, not even a majority of them (We are already 63% of the adults here and they are 36%)...we are never going to convince the cultists to leave their dear leader. But if we an get even a small number of the remaining sane Trump supporters over to our side, the numbers being to tip too precipitously in our favor at that point I think.

You have to keep in mind, that even though the internet and social media got us into this damn mess, they also serve as an odd safety trip wire against authoritarianism. There is no way to effectively hide reality from a large enough segment of the population when every person in the country has the internet in their pocket. We will be able to keep an eye on things far more closely than any citizenry that dealt with an attempted hostile overthrow of their representative system of government in the past. This give us in my opinion a very unique and profound advantage in all of this. Our resistance is vastly easier to organize and inform than any previous one throughout history...

Basically, despite much evidence to the contrary, I remain optimistic that the people of this country are beginning to awake form their long slumber, and that enough of us will wake up in time to prevent the car going completely over the edge of the cliff...please forgive my mixing of analogies lol, I hope you were able to catch the drift of it at least.

u/GlorifiedPlumber · 6 pointsr/politics

Here's a great book about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/0143034693/

The answer is, YES, the ethnic and political situation of the United States is very different than the Prussian Empire, which led to Germany, which led to WW1, which led to issues post WW1, and ultimately the nazification of germany, and ultimately the capture of power within that party.

Not saying the US isn't in a risky situation at all, but yes, there are pretty marked differences now compared to Germany over this time period.

u/Dolbyrko · 9 pointsr/AskHistorians

Although he is known for his paintings (besides, you know, World War II), Hitler had a passion for architecture.
He even once said that "If Germany had not lost [World War I], [He] would have not got involved in politics and would have been a great architect, some kind of Michelangelo"

According to Albert Speer (architect and friend of Hitler's), architecture was his favorite passion.
He even modified the final plans for the operas of Cologne and Linz.

Several times, some of the works given to Speer were done from drafts made by Hitler.

Sources:

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

Guyot & Restellini, L'art Nazi (in French)

Edit: typos

u/AMZN-ASSOCIATE · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I haven't read the book but if you are looking for other books about the Third Reich I would highly recommend this one. You can't "trust" it anymore than you can trust any other autobiography but it is fascinating nonetheless.

u/Algernon_Asimov · 2 pointsr/history

Firstly: it's four books:

  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Birth of Britain

  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The New World

  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Age of Revolution

  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies

    eBay? That's where I got them! It seems you can also get them from this online shop devoted to Churchill's books. Amazon also has some copies available.

    It also appears that there are ebook versions available now.

    Enjoy!
u/MeyerAtl · 9 pointsr/wma

I think this book might be of use to you. It can answer a lot of the basic German questions in a concise and useful manner: https://www.amazon.com/German-Longsword-Study-Guide-Farrell/dp/099267350X

Another good option is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-German-Longsword-Christian-Tobler/dp/1937439232/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1937439232&pd_rd_r=H7DC6Z3YA6PFJ4ZVN4YT&pd_rd_w=VbAS2&pd_rd_wg=PNWII&psc=1&refRID=H7DC6Z3YA6PFJ4ZVN4YT

I say this as basically it seems that you are looking for a starting point into German longsword. The question you ask is not quite so simple as listing off techniques. This is one of the main parts of fencing with the longsword and honestly can take up chapters to talk about properly. The above books have most of the options listed, as well as ideas on how to implement them. They should be able to help you.

u/ex-ape · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

I would have to recommend The Third Reich in Power by Richard Evans, I think it will provide good answers to most if not all of your questions. The book is the second part of a trilogy, with the first book being The Coming of the Third Reich. and the third being The Third Reich at War. All three are excellent, and can be enjoyed on their own, however all three together provide a great history of Nazi Germany from beginning to end.

u/Journeyman12 · 1 pointr/MurderedByWords

Oh, for pity´s sake, dude. I wrote a 1,500-word essay above, specifically called out your first reply, and you haven´t engaged at all with anything I wrote. Why don't you ask a question that addresses the everyday reality of Jews in 1933-39 Germany instead of 'Suppose there was this one time when some dude told me to get on a train and I said no because I had a gun'?

It's like you're actively trying not to imagine what life was actually like on a day-in, day-out basis for Jews living in Germany during that period. Which I can understand, because it was horrible, but if you're trying to argue how guns would have changed the lives of people living in that place at that time... maybe you should take some time and effort to understand the lives of people in that place at that time? Maybe even research?

I really recommend The Third Reich in Power by Evans, the book that I mentioned above. It's long, but exceedingly comprehensive. The bit I mentioned about Nazis taking over all voluntary/civilian organizations, and the bit about smashing the Communist Party in Germany, both come from there. It's an extraordinary resource, very well-sourced. It tends not to feature man-on-the-ground stuff as much as broader societal trends, but I use it to illustrate what life would've been like for a typical person in the Reich (in the case of this argument, a Jew). If you're serious about this topic, why not give it a read and see what you think?

u/SchurkjeBoefje · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

Evans is one of the most eminent living historians on the subject of Nazi Germany, having dedicated his entire career to researching it.

He and many others, the majority of actual historians, agree that the circumstances and methods in which the Nazis rose to power had little to do with actual democracy. Just because a bunch of people voted doesn't mean it was actually democratic, or adhering to the democratic structure of Germany at the time.


You are the one who is challenging that.

"The slide away from from parliamentary democracy into an authoritarian state ruling without the full and equal participation of the parties or the legislatures"

"Political power had seeped away from the legitimate organs of the constitution onto the streets at one end, and into the small cabal of politicians surrounding President Hindenburg at the other, leaving the vaccuum in the vast area between, where normal democratic politics take place. "

What part of that is 'democratic'? Without the full and equal participation of the parties or the legislatures. How can we call that 'democratic'?


The circumstances regarding the Nazi rise to power are complex, but people like to go "hurr, democratically elected" because that's an easy answer, when the reality is complex and doesn't yield an easy answer. You're the one here putting your fingers in your ears and going "LA LA LA DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU".


Read a book, man. Start with this one

u/ryeoldfashioned · 7 pointsr/HistoryPorn

Here's the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-The-Fateful-Siege-1942-1943/dp/0140284583

I'd highly recommend it. Definitely accessible for a non-historian (such as me). It was just amazing how the Soviets recovered from almost losing Moscow. The Germans continually thought the Soviets were on their last legs, just one more push before they'd collapse - but it never happened, and the Soviets kept forming up division after division, manufacturing tank after tank, way beyond what Germany thought they were capable of doing.

Now I'd like to find a good book about the aftermath - the gradual multi-year fighting retreat Westwards of the German army until the end.

u/GadsdenPatriot1776 · 1 pointr/politics

Well it wasn't just Rome. Glubb looked at eleven empires over the course of history. I copied a relevant summary from the end. It isn't just the administrative state that leads to the collapse of an Empire, to be fair.

As numerous points of interest have arisen in the course of this essay, I close with a brief
summary, to refresh the reader’s mind.
> (a) We do not learn from history because our studies are brief and prejudiced.

> (b) In a surprising manner, 250 years emerges as the average length of national greatness.

> (c) This average has not varied for 3,000 years. Does it represent ten generations?

> (d) The stages of the rise and fall of great
nations seem to be:

> The Age of Pioneers (outburst)

> The Age of Conquests

> The Age of Commerce

> The Age of Affluence

> The Age of Intellect

> The Age of Decadence.

> (e) Decadence is marked by:

> Defensiveness

> Pessimism

> Materialism

> Frivolity

> An influx of foreigners

> The Welfare State

> A weakening of religion.

> (f) Decadence is due to:

> Too long a period of wealth and power

> Selfishness

> Love of money

> The loss of a sense of duty.

> (g) The life histories of great states are amazingly similar, and are due to internal factors.

> (h) Their falls are diverse, because they are largely the result of external causes.

> (i) History should be taught as the history of the human race, though of course with emphasis on the history of the student’s own country.

EDIT: Holy crap I suck at formatting. I rarely comment, which is probably why.

The real question is how technology will either speed up, slow down. or prevent the same thing from happening to America.

Will definitely check this out! Is this the book you are referring to?

https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Kingdom-Downfall-Prussia-1600-1947/dp/0674031962

u/Gulchgamer · 5 pointsr/history

The German Wehrmacht did use flame throwers. And they were very effective during WWII. However flame thrower operators were always high priority targets and therefore were offered bonuses. For reference please read Anthony Beevor's book Stalingrad.

https://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Fateful-1942-1943-Antony-Beevor/dp/0140284583

Also the US Marine Corps while fighting the Japanese loved using flame throwers against bunkers.

u/Sxeptomaniac · 9 pointsr/Christianity

The difficulty of discussing Christianity and the Holocaust, directly, is that relatively few people, even within Germany, were truly aware of the extent of the Holocaust until near the end of the war. As a result, you will find it a little more difficult to find information directly related to that topic. Christianity's relationship to Naziism, on the other hand, does have some more readily available information.

While a good portion of Germany's Christian population either supported, or at least failed to oppose, Naziism, that is not universally the case. You might be interested in a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and theologian who strongly opposed Hitler and Naziism, and was eventually executed by them. He was moderately known at the time, but became extremely influential in the past few decades or so.

While it's an extremely large volume, and not directly related, you might find some useful information in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". It's very comprehensive, and does talk a bit about the Christian Democrat party's opposition to Nazism early on, only to eventually fail to mount any meaningful opposition as Hitler began rising to power.

Finally, while I don't know of any specific books on the topic, you probably will want to look into the influence of Martin Luther (specifically his antisemitism) on Germany, Naziism, and Hitler. This is topic that has been widely written about, to my knowledge, so there should be an abundance of information out there on it.

u/PaperbackWriter66 · 3 pointsr/progun

>The Nazis were pretty explicit about their intent.

Not actually true, really. Yes, Hitler and the NSDAP were explicit about their intent in the early 1920s, when they were getting 2% of the vote at most (I think in the 1928 elections they got something like 0.7% of the vote, if memory serves).

Then, once the Depression started and things were going from bad to worse, Hitler saw his political moment and he actually toned down his anti-Semitism and political extremism, toned down his attacks on capitalism and became more friendly to big business in much the same way the British Labour Party would in the later 1940s.

When one-third of the German people voted for Hitler in 1933, they were voting for a party which played to long-held German beliefs and prejudices (including anti-Semitism) about the need for a strongman like Otto von Bismarck rather than feeble parliamentary democracy, a party which appealed to Social Democratic notions of strong trade unions and welfare for the old and the poor and war veterans and a basic standard of living for all, a party which talked about reining in the excesses of exploitative (read: Jewish) capitalism, a party which appealed to the nostalgia of "the good old days" before 1914, a party which would stave off a Bolshevik Revolution (the threat of which was very real and which was, after widely disseminated reports of Trotsky's Red Terror in the early 1920s, widely reviled), a party which would throw off the shackles of Versailles and put Germany back in the top tier of nations which Germany's economy and kultur deserved, and, most of all, a party which promised an end to the political deadlock of the Weimar Republic--which was thoroughly discredited in the eyes of practically all Germans.

But what's astonishing is just how vague Hitler and the NSDAP were about all this. Like any politician, they spoke in platitudes and phrases which were open ended in their interpretation. When Hitler spoke of smashing Jewish finance, moderates heard him saying that international bankers were strangling Germany economically after WWI and needed to be reined in with reasonable regulation; the hardcore anti-Semites heard Hitler talking about expropriating Jewish banks outright.

Far from voting for an party which explicitly promised another world war and death camps filled with Jews, Germans thought they were voting to "Make Germany Great Again" by returning to a kind of Kaiserreich where a strong leader, aided by a loyal, dispassionate, efficient civil service carrying out the Leader's every order without being tangled up in messy parliamentary politics, would make ordinary Germans richer and esteemed in the eyes of the world. And more than some voted for the NSDAP to "keep those Jews in their place."

That's not my opinion, but rather the opinion of eminent historian Richard J. Evans.

u/SJ521-12015 · 26 pointsr/todayilearned

I remember reading this in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. Fantastic book with so much info about Hitler and the Third Reich. Definitely recommend it for history junkies.

It's 1280 pages.


Edit: if anyone is interested here is a link to buy The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

u/ovoutland · 7 pointsr/atheism

Hitler wasn't a Christian; he was a pagan who worshipped Wagner and the "old gods" and wanted to restore what he saw as a heroic (i.e. militaristic) conception of Man. The torchlight processionals, the secret rituals, were all profoundly anti-Christian. Hitler actively prosecuted Christian churches until "Hitler's Pope," Pius XII, cut a deal with him - both equally cynical in what they hoped to attain from it. Christian youth groups were banned and disbanded and their members forced into the Hitler Youth instead.

See Unholy Alliance for Hitler's fascination with the occult, and The Third Reich in Power for this:

>Rosenberg declared in 1938, since young people were now almost completely under the control of the Hitler Youth and the Nazified education system, the hold of the Church over its congregation would be broken and the Catholic and Confessing churches would disappear from the life of the people in their present form. It was a sentiment from which Hitler himself did not dissent.

Or this from the same book:

>In July 1935...a speaker told a meeting of the Nazi Students' League in Bernau: 'One is either a Nazi or a committed Christian.' Christianity, he said, 'promotes the dissolution of racial ties and of the national racial community...We must repudiate the Old and the New Testaments, since for us the Nazi idea alone is decisive. For us there is only one example, Adolf Hitler and no one else."

The "cult of personality" makes no room for any other person, living or dead, at the top of the adoration pyramid. Hitler used religion as he saw fit to gain power and respectability, but had as much religion in him as our modern right wingers with their "do as I say not as I do, I've had my fun and I've had yours too" approach to morality.

u/van_12 · 1 pointr/ww2

A couple that I've read from Antony Beevor:

Stalingrad, and its follow up book The Fall of Berlin 1945. Beevor has also written books on the Ardennes, D-Day, and an all encompassing book on WWII. I have yet to read those but can attest that his two Eastern Front focused books are fantastic

I would also highly recommend The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison Salisbury. Absolutely haunting stuff.

u/equal_tea · 11 pointsr/politics

> These ten men were not men of distinction. They were not men of influence. They were not opinion-makers. Nobody ever gave them a free sample of anything on the ground that what they thought of it would increase the sales of the product. Their importance lay in the fact that God—as Lincoln said of the common people—had made so many of them. In a nation of seventy million, they were the sixty-nine million plus. They were the Nazis, the little men to whom, if ever they voiced their own views outside their own circles, bigger men politely pretended to listen without ever asking them to elaborate.

~ Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

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u/Gustomaximus · 2 pointsr/books

Some great history books:

  1. A Short History of Nearly Everything

  2. Stalingrad

  3. The Interrogators

  4. On Roads

    The first and last are not military history but are quite a good and different reads for someone interested in history and facts.
u/trevlacessej · 34 pointsr/witcher

I'm part of a HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) Club. We learn longsword fencing techniques based on the translated manuals from 15th-16th centuries swordsmen who attribute their knowledge to a 14th century master named Johannes Liechtenauer.

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We put what we learn to use also because we drill and spar with masks, gloves, padded jackets and real steel training swords. After you feel like you can hold your own, you can sign up to be in tournaments. There are HEMA clubs all over the world that compete. it's really fun learning the history and testing your skills in real fencing matches.

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I personally bought a book after i was finished the 10-week beginner course, that's a pretty comprehensive guide to all of the basic and intermediate offensive and defensive moves, drills, techniques etc. with easy to follow pictures and diagrams.

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u/SacredBandofThebes · 1 pointr/germany

In all honesty I would love to have a book which covers from The Roman period to Bismarck. However if there are no books which can cover such a large period then a few books which covers all of this German history would also work.

So far I have mainly been looking on amazon but a lot of the books don't have the greatest reviews such as so I was mainly hoping people in this subreddit would have better suggestions

u/IdeaHamster · 2 pointsr/explainlikeimfive

There's a really excellent (and sort of scary) book about this called "They Thought They Were Free". The author went back to Germany, and interviewed "regular joe" type people that were alive during Hitler's rise to power. When asked how they let it happen, they all said that they thought Hitler had their best interests in mind and was protecting them from all kinds of threats.

A quote from Sinclair Lewis comes to mind: "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

u/PerNihilAdNihil · 3 pointsr/isrconspiracyracist

if history is written by the winners, why then are so many books extolling robt. e. lee?


if history is 'written by the winners' then who how did this get published?

why, if 'history is written by the winners' are people still able to purchase Hitler's 'opus magnus' just about anywhere?

u/redhatnation · 8 pointsr/AskReddit

First, what information are you seeking?

There is always a chance you might find your grandfather's name in certain books that describe the history of the SS. One such book is:

u/Indyhouse · 3 pointsr/TheLastAirbender

There's an awesome book out I learned about today called "They Thought They Were Free" (http://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928) about the perception everyday Germans had during World War II. Most were aware SOMEthing was wrong, but they were all mutually benefitting from whatever it was, so chose, some unconsciously to not say or do anything. Fascinating book. I'm about 3/4 through.

u/idelovski · 1 pointr/europe

I have read his book and he pretty much admits that. It's not like he says, yes I knew it all, I've seen concentration camps and mass murder, but explains he was at first a nobody and connections with the top nazis gave him high life, importance and amazing friendships with all kinds of people inside and outside of Germany. Yeah, with those nazies in the package came a lot of bad stuff, but consciously he chose to ignore it and pretend none of it exists.

He's not proud of himself in the end, he understands how unprincipled it was to associate himself with those barbarians, but accepts his behavior as pragmatical. Shades of gray and stuff.

u/AgAero · 2 pointsr/askscience

I don't want to top post since you've pretty much answered this. I'd like to add a book suggestion on the topic for OP or any others who would like to better understand what you're describing. It's cheap, and explains things quite well. I'm halfway through it myself.

u/IQBoosterShot · 2 pointsr/worldnews

> they do it in small enough increments that nobody notices while it's happening..

In "They Thought They Were Free", Milton Mayer returned to Germany and interviewed Germans to try to determine how they had let Hitler come to power. One of them remarks:

> "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know it doesn't make people close to their government to be told that this is a people's government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing to do with knowing one is governing.

> "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

> "This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter."

u/eureddit · 13 pointsr/politics

German here. It seems to me like too many people are pinning their hopes on this one investigation.

Too many people are still sure that the system works at some level, even though Trump and his cronies have been busy dismantling it from the inside right since he got into office. They're sure that the institutions will still protect them. They're sure that the population is generally aware of what's going. They're sure that if Trump ever took that final step into authoritarianism, millions would be in the streets.

So I'm just here to say that this process has happened before, and it has happened in many countries, and all of the arguments you're making have been made before - and yet many of these countries fell to totalitarianism.

I'm just gonna leave this quote from a German university professor who was interviewed about what life in Germany was like in 1933-45:

>"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

>"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all."

(source: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45)

u/foopirata · 1 pointr/worldnews

Godwin so soon, son?

Good thing we don't, then. But on the other hand, when given the chance, who ran to join the Nazis ? For reals, not a spurious conjecture of a nobody in the intarwebz.

Now, do you have anything relevant, or are you going to jump to the next stepstone now?

u/Hanginon · 4 pointsr/history

IMHO, here's a very good place to start learning about the European history of WW2. Get yourself to a Library, or better yet, just buy the book. It's a good, in depth look at what happened and how it happened.

u/Naughtysocks · 1 pointr/history

The Fall of Berlin by Antony Beevor is an amazing book.

Also Stalingrad The Fateful Seige by Beevor is great too.

u/cassander · 3 pointsr/history

Robert Massie is my favorite historian, and he has 3 amazing books on the period. Dreadnought, about the Anglo-German naval rivalry that led to WWI, Nicholas and Alexander, a biography of the last Czar and the fall of the Russian Empire, and the beautifully titled Castles of Steel, about the naval battles of WWI.

u/quelques_heures · 1 pointr/pics

> he was still a powerful leader and an efficient administrator.

Uhhh, I think you better re-read your Evans!

u/enslavedroosters · 1 pointr/politics

You really are ignorant. It's more about the mindset of people that would allow concentration camps to happen. The devotion to the dear leader over the country. Sure you can easily dismiss it now but once you are over the cliff it is a lot harder to climb out. The average German citizen wasn't aware of the concentration camps or many of the atrocities committed.

That's why the quote by Edmund Burke is so poignant.
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

We the people must stay ever vigilant, if we see something we must speak up it is our duty.
What we have seen so far is not a good indication of things to come but by all means, bury yourself in the sands.

I urge you to watch or read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.


https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEw0RIaYrtE

u/desquibnt · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

I'm not a scholar so I can only give a short answer: Because Germans were desperate and Hitler turned the country around rapidly.

William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a pretty good source of information on this. He even devotes some time in the book to his incredulity that the Germans easily believed bold faced lies told by the state press.

u/FieldLine · 1 pointr/Physics

Any suggestions on how to approach high-level physics without a formal math background?

I am an engineer with an academic concentration in signals processing and a minor in physics, so I do have a strong quantitative background. However, my training was heavily slanted towards ad-hoc problem solving rather than rigorous analysis, so I find myself lost as I tackle topics grounded in formal mathematics.

Specifically, I have been reading Lanczos' The Variational Principles of Mechanics, a popular analytical mechanics text, with great difficulty.

Is it worth reading a pure math book on differential geometry or something similar? How do most graduate students study advanced physics, when an undergraduate physics education doesn't use much math beyond basic PDEs?

u/OnlyRacistOnReddit · 2 pointsr/todayilearned

Actually, I'm not. Let me be very clear that I am not saying that National Socialism and Communism (especially Stalinism) are the same, they aren't. I'm saying that the methods used to implement the two and the rhetoric used was very similar. So similar that Communist academics had to make up these stupid terms like "reactionary" in order to created a division where there wasn't one.

Both the Bulshivek movement in Russia and the Nazi movement in Germany leveraged the "workers" against the aristocracy. Stalin and Hitler (while hating each other bitterly) complimented each other on occasions for doing what they though was correct. Stalin congratulated Hitler on the Night of Long Knives, Hitler praised Stalin's purification of the Communist party from Jewish influence.

Read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich if you really want to understand the methods employed to bring the Nazi's into power. If it doesn't remind you of the way the Bolsheviks came into power then you aren't paying attention.

The impetus for trying to separate the two only stems from people trying to maintain that Communism is a force for good. An argument that I disagree with, but think is not injured by acknowledging that the same rhetoric and revolutionary devices were used in both the Bolshevik and Nazi rises to power.

Edit: A book I'm reading right now does a great job of demonstrating this in a scholarly way. The most jarring thing about the book is how resistant some academics are to allow this comparison. Very much in the vein of your comment. They see the comparison as a threat (something I don't really understand), instead of looking at it as an academic work.

u/iCylon · 17 pointsr/worldnews

> They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

on amazon.com

and on amazon.ca

love to note the 40% price difference..btw

u/Fredfredbug4 · 17 pointsr/AskHistorians

Indeed there were! The books Hitler's Jewish Soldiers and it's "Sequel" The Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers are great places to start looking if you interested.

u/_vikram · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I don't know if it is exactly "light reading" but The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich By William Shirer is a really fascinating look at the Nazis and World War II. It's not at all complex like some of the classics you've listed here, but it's still a really enjoyable read.

u/wotan_weevil · 8 pointsr/SWORDS

IMO, the best book for beginners for longsword is Guy Windsor's https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Art-Arms-Vol-Longsword/dp/9526819322/ (and his older book https://www.amazon.com/Swordsmans-Companion-Guy-Windsor/dp/9526793404/ is good too). He does Italian longsword; for German, you could try Tobler's https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-German-Longsword-Christian-Tobler/dp/1937439232/

Of course, there is plenty of stuff online, too.

u/ethics · 10 pointsr/Israel

Yes, including Spain during the Inquisition. But those were not the same times as 20th century. Historically, the Jews and Muslims were more at peace than Christians and anyone else. Unfortunately, as I've stated, that changed in the 20th century.

Anyway, The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem ties with Nazis is well known, you can even see it in Wiki (I have not checked). Then there were people and movements like Haj Amin al-Husseini. But if you are seriously interested, forget links, buy this book. Why is it a stand out? Not because it proves anything new or controversial, but what it does use is EXHAUSTIVE research and archives on the ties between Nazi Germany and the Arab leaders.

Keep in mind, as a Jew, I don't hold grudges on the above. I am not about history SOLELY dictating the current peace process. I believe there should be peace, and I believe that all human beings should be treated equally, because we are all human beings. To see this in ANY school, less one of a Western country, is disturbing, to say the least.

u/chabanais · 1 pointr/politics

Read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-Third-Reich/dp/0671728687) if you want to have adult conversations. But, since you most likely won't do that this is enough to shut you up:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Hitler_hate_Roman_Catholics

And if you want to know any more history, hire a tutor because you clearly need one.

u/wataf · 23 pointsr/politics

Read the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. There's a great audiobook version on Audible. I'm American too, except my four years of history classes were in Texas not NYC, and after reading that book I truly realized how little they actually taught us in high school.

u/ocularsinister2 · 1 pointr/pics

I've just finished reading Stasiland. I highly recommend it if you are interested in the Berlin wall and what life was like in the GDR.

u/leadfoot323 · 6 pointsr/WarshipPorn

That is awesome! I'm currently reading "Castles of Steel" on my Kindle so any photos in the book don't really turn out. But this is great. It's incredible to see the Imperial German fleet all together like this.

u/qa2 · -4 pointsr/nba

Little known fact.... he actually has a book out... and it's actually really good. Kind of a long read but helps you really understand his life.

Amazon page for it

u/throw_away1830 · 5 pointsr/funny

If anyone is interested, this is a great book about the actual religions surrounding the Norse deities.

u/The_Real_Harry_Lime · 1 pointr/worldnews

Alright, you're still taking the public word of history's most famous manipulative liar.
You're believing what he said in public speeches. Speeches he was giving for political reasons. Portraying himself as a Catholic to some audiences was politically expedient. The wikipedia article has dozens of sources, or you could go to library and check out transcriptions of Hitler's private conversations "Table Talk" , or Josef Goebbels' diary, or Albert Speer's memoir
There are literally no better and purer sources as to his private opinion on matters in existence.
You are still taking Hitler's public pronouncements at face value. Are you the reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain? You probably don't believe that the Nazi's actually invaded Czechoslovakia because Hitler publicly promised he wouldn't at Munich...I got news for you, mate "Hitler promised not to invade Czechoslovakia, Jeremy...welcome to the real world."
You need to stop being so gullible.

u/subpoenaduece · 8 pointsr/history

Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad was a pretty gripping read about the battle and the fate of the 6th army. I'm sure some of the more hardcore history buffs out there have more detailed suggestions, but if you're looking for a good layman's history of Stalingrad you can't go wrong with it.

u/ArbiterOne · 2 pointsr/answers

I also read Rise and Fall and came here to recommend it.

People were spending more due to heavy state encouragement to buy-buy-buy and a job placement program working with major industries that ensured that every worker could find a job. IG Farben, Krupp, Siemens, and other major German companies gladly went along.

u/Atlas_Rodeo · 21 pointsr/GetMotivated

University mobilization was extremely important to the Nazis. Student groups grew to the point where the entirety of student unions were controlled by extremist Nazi youth groups. They then moved on the faculty, getting leftists and jews and other undesirables sacked in favor of ideologically similar folks.

This of course doesn't even begin to mention the effort that was put into indoctrinating even younger grade-school students.

Everyone should read Richard Evans' fantastic 3-part series on the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now more than ever do people owe it to themselves to see how this kind of thing starts as a fringe movement and gradually proceeds to....well, everything.

u/ac312 · 3 pointsr/history

Came here looking for Frederick. I'm reading Iron Kingdom now and I'm finding him to be an especially fascinating figure. I think I'll look for a good biography after I'm through with the other book.

u/JimDandy_ToTheRescue · 3 pointsr/WarshipPorn

I have a Time-Life book titled Dreadnought which concentrates on the time period of 1900 thru 1919. At least a couple very large chapters are dedicated to Jutland.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dreadnoughts-David-Howarth/dp/0809427117

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie is also right up your alley. Jutland is the centerpiece of the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Castles-Steel-Britain-Germany-Winning/dp/0345408780

u/firstroundko108 · 1 pointr/Norse

Yes, one of the prominent scholars at the moment is Neil Price. Here is a link to several of his papers. If you want something book-length, you're looking at spending textbook prices, but most beginners are steered toward the book by Davidson I have listed at the bottom to start, which covers the major theories about Vikings and their Germanic ancestors developed from archeological discoveries. You can always move on from there, and I would suggest Neil Price's full-length volumes.

Neil Price articles:

Passing into Poetry

An Eye for Odin? Divine Role-Playing in
the Age of Sutton Hoo

(This one is Anglo-Saxon based, but up your alley)

Twilight of the gods? The ‘dust veil
event’ of AD 536 in critical perspective


Davidson's book:

Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
(This has a lot more archeological evidence than it sounds like--you might need to skip the intro if you're already familiar with the mythology)

Edit: formatting

u/ErsatzAcc · 1 pointr/CombatFootage

Already posted my source.

Also there are countless other exceptions of the rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Maurice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Milch

Erhard Milch is a great example of a WWI veteran getting the status of a honorary Aryan.

There are also some books on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789

u/WhoNeedsFacts · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

Thanks for the answer!

Since you seem to know a lot about this subject, would this book be a good starting point in learning about the HRE?

u/Nrussg · 5 pointsr/AskHistorians

The German Confederation was created as a replacement for the Holy Roman Empire, and built on the same lines. The portion of Prussia you are talking about, called Ducal Prussia, is not actually part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was originally polish before falling under the principality of Brandenburg and eventually separating from Polish vassalage. Due to weird legalities, the Prince of Brandenburg eventually added the tittle of King in Prussia (Only the King of Bohemia was allowed to be both a king and a member of the Holy Roman Empire, so the Prince of Brandenburg was circumventing this rule by becoming king in territory technically outside the HRE.) Eventually people just started calling the Prince of Brandenburg the King of Prussia, but the territory was never brought in the HRE because of this technicality. When the lines of the Confederation were drawn they maintained this distinction.

Most of this info come from Iron Kingdom which is a great read, but you probably don't want to read 700 pages to answer a small question.

u/PowderedToasty · 2 pointsr/IAmA

If you haven't yet you should read Alex and Me: http://www.amazon.com/Alex-Me-Scientist-Uncovered-Intelligence/dp/0061672475. It's about a woman who spent about 30 years training an african grey parrot. She was able to teach him things that everyone thought only mammals could do. It's very interesting and a good quick read too.

u/thatsnotgneiss · 1 pointr/heathenry

Probably the best of the outline curriculums out there is on the Troth website. I have a curriculum I developed a while back as well. Message me your email and I can send it when I get home from work.

If you are opposed to that, I would suggest starting with Gods and Myths of Northern Europe as a basic introduction.

u/Elven6 · 10 pointsr/pics

A lot of Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht joined because they wanted to show the Nazi's that a Jew could do anything a German could do (since at the time the party was playing up that they were inferior). Others joined simply because they believed being a Jew on the front was safer than being a Jew back home. The Nazi's eventually closed the loophole that allowed Jews to join though but I think estimates say there were 50,000 Jewish soldiers in the army?

One of the highest decorated Wehrmacht soldiers was actually Jewish, he was given his medal by Hitler himself who from what I read resented it at first but in the end caved. There was a book written on Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht (and even a documentary that complemented it) which featured his story but the name escapes me at the moment.

Edit: Spelling.

Edit 2: I believe this is the book,

http://www.amazon.ca/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789

The estimate given is infact 150,000 soldiers of Jewish decent, not the 50,000 I stated above.

u/Ibrey · 9 pointsr/badatheism

I didn't mention the Chart because I thought it was necessary to provide some evidence that anything on Jim Walker's personal web page is much more accurately described as "biased and inaccurate" than "objective and trustworthy"; I just would have been remiss not to mention his most noteworthy accomplishment in the art of bullshit. Sure, Hitler said the things that Walker attributes to him in Mein Kampf, and in that one speech which is so frequently quoted without mention of the fact that it is a rhetorical reversal of a political opponent's speech that had cited "my feelings as a Christian" as a motive for opposing anti-Semitism—and because Walker, like many of his fellow atheists, is afraid to face the facts about Hitler's relation to religion, he takes these quotes at face value, without critically analysing them in the light of other information from the Table Talk, or from Goebbels' diaries, or from Speer's memoirs. It seems that Hitler's honesty is not to be doubted, and that this is more than one can say for Barack Obama. Indeed, though Walker quote-mines Inside the Third Reich for proof that the persecution of Christianity was conducted by Bormann without Hitler's knowledge, he silently overlooks inconvenient testimony like this:

> In Bormann's mind, the Kirchenkampf, the campaign against the churches, was useful for reactivating party ideology which had been lying dormant. He was the driving force behind this campaign, as was time and again made plain to our round table. Hitler was hesitant, but only because he would rather postpone this problem to a more favorable time. Here in Berlin, surrounded by male cohorts, he spoke more coarsely and bluntly than he ever did in the midst of his Obersalzberg entourage. "Once I have settled my other problems," he occasionally declared, "I'll have my reckoning with the church. I'll have it reeling on the ropes." (p. 123)

If you want to know something about history, read a history book, not apologetics web sites.

u/hockeysauce · -1 pointsr/PoliticalHumor

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686/ref=nodl_

I’ll trust a man who was there at the time over a Yale professor born in 1957. Thanks.

u/mikecsiy · 4 pointsr/badhistory

Yeah... for that perspective I'd highly recommend They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer.

He interviews and forms relationships with around a dozen citizens of a small town in Hesse over the course of a decade or so about their experiences and thoughts during the rise of Nazism and the following years.

u/ShoJoKahn · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

I am very much an amateur historian, I'm afraid - I even go so far as to use my girlfriend's access to academia, as I don't have the same privileges myself.

With that said, Joachim Whaley's two-volume history on Germany and Holy Roman Empire is beyond compare. I find his argument that the HRE was in a constant state of reform especially fascinating. Beyond that, he has an extensive bibliography of his own that might help you out. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful myself.

u/Echolate · 3 pointsr/Physics

Anyone had any first hand experience with Lancazos' Variational Principles of Mechanics?. I'm almost through Landau's Mechanics and was interested in learning more about the action principle, although I don't have any background in the calculus of variations and such.

u/Armies0fThisAge · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Holy Roman Empire existed for a millennium and comprised hundreds of quasi-independent states and principalities. Because of that, there aren't very many exhaustive histories on the subject. The ones that do exist tend to be limited in one way or another (Eastern Rome kind of has the same problem).

I recommend a popular overview of German history like A Mighty Fortress and suggest you continue on with smaller, more specific subjects - the Schmalkaldic League, the Carolingians, the Reformation, or whatever. If you're into the Thirty Years War then CV Wedgewood's appropriately titled The Thirty Years War is a fantastic narrative history, even if it doesn't measure up to modern standards of serious historical scholarship.

u/datenschwanz · 1 pointr/todayilearned

There is an absolutely riveting and fascinating account of this in Castles of Steel. It's a story in and of itself. Highly recommended.

https://www.amazon.com/Castles-Steel-Britain-Germany-Winning/dp/0345408780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506365530&sr=8-1&keywords=castles+of+steel

u/Aryanenzo · 0 pointsr/todayilearned

http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789
150,000 Jews, not 10,000. Also the book has a good rating so its a good source. It is a well researched book and not bullshit and it cites sources.

u/KapitanKurt · 5 pointsr/WarshipPorn

Yes, there's a big distinction. Here's a link that scratches the surface of dreadnought background & development to get you started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)

If you get really curious, here's two books that round out the subject of how dreadnoughts fit into naval history...

http://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-Robert-K-Massie/dp/0345375564/ref=la_B000AQ6XVE_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406314026&sr=1-6

http://www.amazon.com/Castles-Steel-Britain-Germany-Winning/dp/0345408780

u/CumfartablyNumb · 2 pointsr/history

I don't know about pictures, but the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson is fantastic and covers US involvement thoroughly.

Also the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Ron Rosenbaum is downright chilling. He actually lived in Nazi Germany.

u/FirstCircleLimbo · 2 pointsr/Denmark

Det må være bogen "They Thought They Were Free" om tyskerne i årene 1933 til 1945. Spændende læsning. Men omslaget er et kæmpe kagekors, hvilket gør at jeg er nødt til at gemme bogen af vejen, da den ellers giver for mange kommentarer fra folk, der konkluderer før de undersøger. Bogen kan ses her: https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928

Edit: Hagekors ikke kagekors...

u/baduhar · 7 pointsr/books

I'm personally very fond of Hilda Ellis Davidson's Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. It's scholarly, it covers all the Germanic evidence not just the Scandinavian, and doesn't add anything that is not really there. And of course there's always the incomparable Snorri Sturluson. I recommend Jean Young's translation.

u/commonslip · 4 pointsr/Physics

I recommend the following book on the subject: The Variational Principle Of Mechanics which elaborates on the relationship between the two views much more effectively than I can.

u/wonderb0lt · 2 pointsr/CasualConversation

I am more of a book person.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Iron Kingdom. Even though it focuses more on economics, The Age of Revolution is also a good read. And the aforementioned article on Metternich which gives you a nice story-telling device to the later coalition wars until the liberal revolution 1848

u/JeremyBuff · 1 pointr/AskReddit

If you're into WWII, I cannot stress enough what a great book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is.

u/HistoryNerd84 · 3 pointsr/history

Was going to recommend Keegan as well, so at least that's two random internet strangers who agree this would be a good starting point!

There is also Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It may be a bit massive, but it's a damn good read.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686

u/redrighthand_ · 1 pointr/history

If you have the chance to read Stasiland by Anna Funder there are a few documented cases I believe. Fascinating book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Stasiland-Stories-Behind-Berlin-Wall-Anna-Funder/1847083358

u/tipodecinta · 4 pointsr/unitedkingdom

And if you want something to read Anna Funder's book Stasiland is one of the best books I've ever read.

u/Urist_Galthortig · 4 pointsr/history

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/0143034693

This is the first in a Trilogy by Evans. Excellent research, and when ready today, while still very different from the United States, will seem closer than you would like. When he starts explaining about how journalism fractured into political journalism along ideological lines, you can see the same problems we suffer today.

Also, a highlight for the section explaining what happened to Adolf Hitler after the Beerhall Putsch. He talks about the country put him in a deluxe cell, and his probation was no public speaking for five years. They came and went.

u/MoreWhiskeyPls · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

My sources are books, I have a decent Hitler library. I recommend Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, and of course Mein Kampf (Among many others.) I distinctly remember one of the reasons for never taking his coat off in public was because he would pour sweat before his speeches. Once he got going he was great, but before he was a nervous wreck. I attempted to look on the internets, but couldn't find a reliable source. Edit: If you really want a great comprehensive read about Germany in World War 2, I HIGHLY recommend Rise and Fall of the Third Reich....its a must read. http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-Third-Reich/dp/0671728687

u/omaca · 1 pointr/books

I really liked it.

If you like non-fiction (and many people really don't), I highly recommend Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. It is very well written, and feels almost like a novel. You will never think about the snow and hunger and fear the same way again.

u/IamUandwhatIseeisme · 1 pointr/Libertarian

When did I do that? Please quote my comment here about socialist and national socialism with Marxism?

They did so seize it. You should read rise and fall of the 3rd Reich.

And also do research on Albert Speer.

You will learn that Fascism is very much a centralized planned economy and stole the means of production.

Motivation is only the why, not the what... and not even the true why most of the time. The actions of each are completely the same and a lot of the rhetoric is as well.

Finally, the fact that you think Pence is anything like 'Muslims' (I'm guess you mean Islamists) on any scale shows me just how distorted your word view is.

u/rjrrzube · 3 pointsr/history

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Fateful-1942-1943-Antony-Beevor/dp/0140284583 ... looks like a good book. Appears to discuss disease.

u/recycleaccount38 · 20 pointsr/NewPatriotism

Something that certainly shows the rhymes between today and 20th century history worth checking out might be "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer

https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928

This is a long excerpt (and I'm sure some of you already know it) but I think it's really, really important to read this and think about it:

>"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

>"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

>"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

>"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

>"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

>"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

u/ppphhh · 6 pointsr/pics

Doesn't make him a bad guy. His book Inside The Third Reich is fascinating.

u/AndyBea · 1 pointr/israelexposed

Julius Streicher (that we hung at Nuremberg for his faith-hatred) seems to have been less guilty than many Zionists.

And, while he was certainly a disgusting racist, his defence is pretty strong:

>In 1935, at the Nuremberg Party Congress, the "racial laws" were promulgated. During the preparation of the law-project, were you called upon for consultation and did you participate in any way in the elaboration of these laws ?

>>"The accused Streicher:- Yes, I believe I participated in it insofar as, for years, I had been writing that all mixing of German and Jewish blood had to be prevented in the future. I wrote articles to that effect, and I have always repeated that we had to take the Jewish race, or the Jewish people, as a model. I have always repeated in my articles that the Jews were to be regarded as a model by other races, for they have given themselves a racial law, the law of Moses, which says:

>>>"If you go unto foreign lands, you must not take foreign wives. And this, Gentlemen, is of great importance in judging the Nuremberg laws. It was these Jewish laws that were taken as a model. When, centuries later, the Jewish legislator Ezra saw that, despite this, many Jews had married non-Jewish wives, these bonds were broken. This was the origin of Jewry which, thanks to its racial laws, survived for centuries, whereas all the other races and civilizations were destroyed."

>>Source : Trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Court (Nuremberg : November 14th 1945 October 1st 1946). Official French text. 26th April 1946 Debates, Tome XII. D 321).

Note - German Jews were not actually preaching division and very few of them were Zionist (< 1/2%?). German Jews were overwhelmingly practicing integration - up to 150,000 of them may have served in the German Army - see http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789/

The first Germans (and only Jews) arguing in favour of apartheid were the Zionists! Should we hang them too?

(Note - despite Julius Streicher being labelled as the race "theoretician" of the Nazis, he didn't claim any personal contribution to the Nazi racial laws of 1935, only that his logic was applied. Der Sturmer was popular pre-war because it was pornographic - its circulation slashed to some 15,000 during the war to save paper).

u/austincook63 · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

Has he read Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor? It's an amazing book, also very detailed (560 pages).

u/blackcatkarma · 1 pointr/history

A brief search on Amazon yielded these four books -
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 and what looks like a massive, multi-volume tome:
Link 4

But just to start, check out this Wikipedia article, its in-text links and the external links.

u/Lonetrek · 1 pointr/WorldOfWarships

There's a great write up on this in the book Castles of Steel

u/Stillill1187 · 2 pointsr/EnoughTrumpSpam

Yeah... scares the shit out of me.

Read like something from this book.

u/BlindPaintByNumbers · 2 pointsr/history

Check out this book. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686 Written by a corespondent who lived in Germany at the time and who had access to all the Nuremberg evidence and many personal journals of prominent Nazis. The first third of the book takes place before Hitler assumes the Chancellorship of Germany.

TLDR; He played up to peoples hatred of the Versailles treaty, belief that they didn't lose WWI, they were betrayed, mostly by the Jews and the democratic government, and he got support from the military by promising to break the treaty and rebuild the armed forces. Then he won some key elections.

u/PuddingInferno · 7 pointsr/politics

> I always wondered how did German people allow things to get how they did.

I highly encourage you to read They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45.

It's terrifying.

u/DMVBornDMVRaised · 6 pointsr/PoliticalHumor

So what earns them the title? Do you realize the Nazi's spent a decade and a half doing exactly what was done in Charlottesville? Like exactly? Why are you talking out of your ass on such an easily researchable topic?

Start here...

The Coming of the Third Reich https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143034693/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_34hLzbJYY3W61

And do yourself a favor and don't speak again on this topic until you are done with it. At least that.

u/nunboi · 1 pointr/politics

Growing up my Dad was a big fan of the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He lost his copy and ordered a new one online, but the seller was in the middle east, and shipping got complicated as he made the order days before 9/11 lol.

u/RangersCrusader · 2 pointsr/RedLetterMedia

Well, Sir Richard Evans IS an esteemed historian specializing in Nazi Germany.

u/asaz989 · 1 pointr/news

This is very very inaccurate.

Within a year of becoming Chancellor, Hitler took legislative power from Parliament, suspended civil liberties, dissolved, suppressed, and/or banned other parties (including opposition parties like the Social Democrats and Communists as well as the Nazis' former conservative coalition partners - which were necessary because even in the elections they won, they did not receive a majority), and imposed party and state control over voluntary organizations (see the previous link). From March 1933 until the 1949 West German elections, there were no multi-party elections in Germany.

If you want more information on this period, I highly recommend Richard J. Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich for events up to the Enabling Acts and Reichstag Fire Decrees, and The Third Reich in Power from the period from that point until the outbreak of the war.

u/L1QU1DF1R3 · 3 pointsr/gifextra

Pathetic human being? Sure. Nazi? Sounds like you need to brush up on your history a bit. Rather than bash you and downvote you, I invite you take the opportunity to actually learn what a nazi is:
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686


u/maggiesguy · 3 pointsr/TrueReddit

If you have time, I highly recommend reading that entire book. The whole thing is fascinating because it dives down to the personal level with interviews with Germans who lived through the whole process.

The book's a little awkward to read in public though, what with the big swastika on the cover. I got more than a few strange looks on the train.

u/MONDARIZ · 1 pointr/history

The best current writer on World War II is without doubt Anthony Beevor. A great historian and a riveting writer.

Anthony Beevor: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Anthony Beevor: The Fall of Berlin 1945

Anthony Beevor: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

u/vonHindenburg · 0 pointsr/DaystromInstitute

Well, that was super-confusing for a second. I'm reading Castles of Steel, which is a history of the British Navy in WWI, in which Admiral Jellico; Commander of the Grand Fleet, is prominently featured.



Highly recommend it to any naval history buffs, or just anyone who wants to better understand how badly the fog of war can screw over well-laid plans.

u/lewdite · 1 pointr/conspiracy

... what??? Do you understand the significance of the Reichstag fire in relation to the third Reich or are you just repeating a talking point spewed from some alt-right asshole? Your invocation seems to suggest you think this is coordinated for the benefit of... Ron Paul?

You should read this instead of watching YouTube:
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686

u/skepticalDragon · 2 pointsr/AskEurope

I highly recommend The Coming of the Third Reich, which covers the background in which the Nazi party came to exist and then took power. It covers 1871-1933. Incredible book.

And yeah, the parallels to current world leaders are obvious and upsetting.

The Coming of the Third Reich https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143034693

u/TheFaster · 8 pointsr/politics

> Take your own suggestion and read some old history books.

Anyone even remotely familiar with history would know that Hitler removed all aspects of socialism from the Nazi party (often violently).

I understand that I'm wasting my time arguing with someone who has no interest in reality, but please take your own advice and pick up a history book. I'd recommend the "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". It's an absolutely exhaustive coverage of not only Hitler, but the factors and moods that led to him, written by a journalist who was stationed in Berlin during Hitler's rise, and often provides first-hand account of many of the events he covers.

https://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686

Please, educate yourself. Don't just parrot goofy memes.

u/SpottedMarmoset · 2 pointsr/boardgames

If you're interested, read Rise & Fall of the Third Reich.

Hitler was an evil political genius. He played political parties off each other to rise to power, then did the same thing on a global scale until 1942 or so. He'd wipe out members of his own side to further his rise to political power or secure it.

I'd say he's on the Mount Rushmore of diplomacy with Talleyrand. (Again - perhaps the most evil dude that ever lived, but breathtakingly good at diplomacy.)

u/comited · 1 pointr/books

My parents encouraged me to read as a kid. They enrolled me in the Pizza Hut Book It program that incentivised reading by giving you a personal pan pizza after you read so many books. I read mostly Hardy Boys, and Goose Bumps.

I really started reading my freshamn year in college. I got all depressed and a buddy of mine gave me The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to pass the time. I am not sure how, but that book changed my life. Ever since I have been a voraciouse reader. Its like something just clicked.

u/KyotoWolf · 7 pointsr/history

It's an extract from the book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans by Milton Mayer. The full book gives a more detailed view with examples.

u/plbogen · 1 pointr/Judaism

>"Oh, had we only known about the Holocaust!"

That is the worst kind of revisionism. Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" (http://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928) helped debunk this story. The German people knew well what was going on and they didn't think twice to help themselves to the spoils of the Holocaust. There were more than 20k camps throughout the Reich and conquered territories. Details were published in papers and magazines throughout Germany. Even the New York Times ran articles about the camps.

Here is a recent article talking about the myth that the German people did not know. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard

u/AugustusEuler · 1 pointr/eu4

No, it's Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, but is the book that you mentioned good?

u/Ziac45 · 1 pointr/SeattleWA

Here are two books that I would really recommend to know a bit more about what actually happened. I am done debating this issue because as I said above I am tired of being called nasty things.

In the Garden of Beasts

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

This one has some very outdated social views in there about gays but it is still a very good book to understand Hitler and Germany.

u/teamyoshi · 1 pointr/AskMen

If you haven't read it already, you would probably enjoy this book.

u/dodgerh8ter · 3 pointsr/WWII

I'd recommend The Second World War and World War Two Day by Day.

My first WW2 book was Rise and Fall of the Third Reich but it just covers Germany. Good book though add it to your list.

u/toomuchcream · 1 pointr/history

A World Undone about WWI.
I've never read it myself, but many people have recommended it to me.

Also you can never go wrong with something about Stalingrad

u/jorgecomacho · 9 pointsr/WarshipPorn

Also worth looking at Castles of Steel

That and Dreadnought by the same author are my favorites of the era.

u/ThisIsntGoldWorthy · 3 pointsr/history

I really liked "A Mighty Fortress". It covers ~2000 years of "German" history: https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Fortress-History-German-People/dp/0060934832

u/veddy_interesting · 1 pointr/Keep_Track

I urge you to be careful of giving in to despair, or accepting that nothing will or can be done. Remember where that can lead. Instead, please insist that our rickety institutions perform as designed, and protest if they do not.

Remember that the majority of us are not in favor of any of this nonsense.

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

u/unruly_mattress · 1 pointr/conspiracy

Pfffft, me, a Marxist?

Start here: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686

I know it's not a poorly made Youtube video, and not even a badly written blog post, but hey, it might have some information worth considering, eh?

u/AlcibiadesHandsome · 3 pointsr/books

You may be interested in the Prose Edda, which is a more systematic account. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe is also a standard text, assuming that you want something academic.

u/EBG · 4 pointsr/europe

Having just read Stasiland the film in that youtube-link gets a lot more interesting.

u/You_Dont_Party · 5 pointsr/worldpolitics

>If you think Hitler/Stalin would have handled that the same way, you're ignorant of history.

Considering I have said nothing of the sort, I’m not sure why you’d think that’s a position anyone is taking. Seems like you’re just creating a strawman argument because the argument I made, that the right-wing loves to censor topics, is one you can’t argue against.

>People who think that Trump is a fascist don't have a gnats worth of knowledge what fascism is. Please open up a damn history book and read a thing.

Fascism isn’t only achieved through a Nazi state though, and rhetoric can certainly be fascistic without requiring a nation to reach the depths of becoming a full blown authoritarian hellscape.

Have you read Eco’s dissection of Italian fascism? Have you read about the Weimar Republic and the rise of Fascism in Germany?Perhaps you should, because you might understand the context of fascism in a non-fascistic state, and recognize the many valid comparisons it has to modern far-right ideology. Don’t take my word for it, I can point to any number of Holocaust survivors organizations which have stated the same thing about Trumps policies and rhetoric, and I’m sure they’d love to hear you tell them that they “don’t know a gnats worth of knowledge” about fascism.

u/dnd_in_op · 3 pointsr/history

I liked Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark.

u/metamatic · 1 pointr/science

If you want to get really depressed, read Alex And Me by Irene Pepperberg to learn about how intelligent and empathetic parrots are, and then read Of Parrots and People by Mira Tweti to learn how they're treated in commercial 'parrot farming' operations.

u/Afin12 · 3 pointsr/nfl

I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich back when I was in high school. I've since started listening to it again on audio book.


I highly highly recommend it, it is the best book on Nazi Germany that I have ever read. It is written by journalist William L. Shirer, who was a correspondent for US media in the years leading up to the war and he continued to live in Berlin until the US and Germany went to war and he was asked to leave the country.

u/weforgottenuno · 3 pointsr/Physics

Yes, it is definitely focussed on variational calculus, but I still found it highly readable. It is also far from out of print: it's available as a Dover paperback:
http://www.amazon.com/Variational-Principles-Mechanics-Dover-Physics/dp/0486650677

u/3-10 · 2 pointsr/TheGreatWar

Rules of the Game is a must read for understanding Jutland.

The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591143365/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_W4MWCbDSQT8PP

Castles of Steel is a good book on the history of the war at sea.

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345408780/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_F5MWCb3C2YZC0

u/Baloney-Tugboat · 68 pointsr/politics

I recommend everyone read Richard Evans' 3-part series on the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, especially the first book about the rise of the movement. There's so many parallels between then and what we're seeing now in the US it chills me to the bone.

u/wyldcat · 0 pointsr/Documentaries

Because he's literally acting like Hitler did in the 30s. Maybe you should open a history book, here's one I can recommend.

u/Louis_Farizee · 6 pointsr/Judaism

Because this is a serious question, I will give you an answer: no, this is absolutely nothing like that. This is a great resource on how the Nazis actually did what they did: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686

u/DamionK · 3 pointsr/wma

Fighting with the German longsword by Christian Tobler

https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-German-Longsword-Christian-Tobler/dp/1937439232

There are a bunch of books published by Chivalry Bookshelf like the one above.

Some can be found at abe books as well as the usual amazon search.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bsi=0&ds=20&kn=chivalry%20bookshelf&sortby=17&prevpage=2

I'll reiterate what others have said about Clements. He is an important figure in the history of modern swordfighting but he also wasn't a diligent student of the arts when he was putting out books and videos back then. A lot has been learnt since then.

u/Reeeltalk · 1 pointr/infj

Ok so I just went and looked for specific pages to take pics of and realized it took about 42 pages to come to the conclusion. This is the book if you wanna check it out sometimes though.

u/MasterFubar · 1 pointr/AdviceAnimals

> On what crazy analysis of history are you rationalizing your beliefs?

On many different sources, for instance this book

Hitler was an opportunist, the fact that he didn't attack Sweden or Switzerland are clear examples of this.

u/bloodfyr · 3 pointsr/AskHistorians
  1. One of the reasons mankind was able to proliferate so well during the late Pleistocene was, as they moved out of tropical areas, they encountered fewer viruses, parasites, and infectious agents as they moved into temperate regions and the ones that were there were not adapted yet to "handle" man.

  2. I'm currently reading Speer's memoirs, Inside the Third Reich. I'm fascinated with authoritarian governments and will probably be picking up something else on my morbid obsession, North Korea, once I'm done.
u/JMMartin · 6 pointsr/Fantasy

/u/JGwynne, I think it hearkens back to just having felt an affinity for the lore from an early age. I recollect when I was about 15 I bought a used copy of H.R. Ellison Davidson's GODS AND MYTHS OF NORTHERN EUROPE (I still have it) and referred to it often in my first Tolkien- and D&D-inspired fantasy scrawlings.

I've always been fascinated by the cosmology, too, of the Nine Worlds and Yggdrasil, so when I started my publishing services company in 2013 I called it Nine Worlds Media with little hesitation, and this later carried over when /r/TimMarquitz asked me what we should call our fledgling pub house. Ragnarok was right there on the tip of my brain, especially because I was working on a short story at the time set in the deep cold of Fimbulvinter.

Plus, I like that Ragnarok may be the "doom of the gods," but it is also the beginning of a new age. The word itself means to "conjure" a new origin or fate, so it speaks to me on many levels.

u/Siganid · 1 pointr/Libertarian

This book was written expressly for deniers like you:

https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928