Looking for some good books on the above subjects, for my own personal interest. I was interested in reading about Hitler's ideology, and how he propogated the German people to eventually commit the holocaust. I'm not super knowledgable about WWII itself either, I pretty much just know the very broad strokes, so a book on the general history of WWII would also be helpful. I was looking at my library, and while they have a ton of books, some of them are more recent, and I don't want some biased retroactive history by some leftist professor.
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Well, there's John Toland's Adolf Hitler, The War Against The Jews for holocaust stuff, the William Shirer books (The Nightmare Years and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich, the Time-Life collection on it, if you can find it, The World At War TV series, also Prelude to War was pretty good, as I remember. This is just off the top of my head, I'll add more if/when I can remember something else.
Oh, btw, we're at the point of "Please mr hitler don't invade poland" again with Putin and the fucking Ukraine.
Shirer's book is a nice read but quite outdated in both its information and its theories (e.g. strong emphasis on the Sonderweg).