Literature list on the subject of World War II

This list of literature on the subject of the Second World War (from September 1939 to September 1945 ) mainly contains works on the entire course of the war in both of the major arenas and its classification in political history.

There is a separate list for the Pacific War .

This list of scientific literature is arranged alphabetically by author and does not include any rating. Furthermore, it does not claim to be complete. Further references can be found in individual articles that are linked in the main article. The research history of the war in Germany and around the world has yet to be presented.

Literature by author name

A to K

• Antony Beevor : The Second World War. Bertelsmann, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-570-10065-3 . (Original edition: The Second World War. W&N, London 2012.)
• Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs , Detlev Vogel: The German Reich on the defensive. Strategic Air War in Europe, War in the West and East Asia 1943–1944 / 45. Stuttgart Munich 2001 (= The German Reich and the Second World War, Vol. 7, edited by the Military History Research Office).
• Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Thomas Kater: After war, violence and repression. Difficult dealing with the past . Baden-Baden 2011.
• Stephan Burgdorff, Klaus Wiegrefe (Ed.): The 2nd World War. Turning point in German history. Goldmann, Munich 2007.

• Danielle Costelle, Isabelle Clarke: The War. People in World War II. Bucher, Munich 2010.
• Thomas J. Cutler: Decision in the Pacific . Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-550-07081-0 .

• Kathrin Dräger: Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the endpoints of a conflict escalation. A contribution to the debate about the atomic bombs. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-2045-6 .
• Wilhelm Deist u. a .: Causes and conditions of the Second World War . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-596-24432-3 .
• Peter Doyle: The Second World War in Numbers. Bucher Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7658-2038-0 .
• Henrik Eberle : Hitler's World Wars. How the private became a general. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-50265-7 .
• Jörg Echternkamp : The 101 Most Important Questions - The Second World War. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59314-7 .
• Richard J. Evans : The Third Reich. Volume 3: War . DVA, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-05800-3 .
• Michael Freund : The Second World War. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1962.
• Karl-Heinz Frieser (Ed.): The Eastern Front 1943/44. The war in the east and on the secondary fronts. Stuttgart 1984 (= The German Reich and the Second World War, Vol. 8, edited by the Military History Research Office).

• General Staff of the Army: The Second World War on the map. A situation atlas of the operations department of the General Staff of the Army. Scale 1: 3000000. Biblio-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1760-7 .
• Christian Gerlach : War, Food, Genocide. Research on German extermination policy in World War II. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930908-39-5 .
• Lothar Gruchmann: The Second World War. Warfare and politics (dtv world history of the 20th century). dtv, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-423-04010-6 .
• Tsuyoshi Hasegawa: The End of the Pacific War. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2007.
• Christian Hartmann : Company Barbarossa. The German War in the East 1941–1945. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61226-8 .

• John Keegan : The Second World War. Rowohlt , Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-87134-511-3 .
• Manfred Kehrig: Stalingrad. Analysis and documentation of a battle. DVA, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-01653-4 .
• Paul Kennedy: The Battle in the Pacific . Moewig, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-8118-4311-7
• Ian Kershaw : Turning Points. Key decisions in World War II 1940/41. 2nd edition, DVA, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-05806-5 .
• Ian Kershaw: The end. Fight to the end. Nazi Germany 1944/45. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-05807-2 .
• Ian Kershaw: Fall from Hell. Europe 1914 to 1949. DVA, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-421-04722-9 .
• Gerhard Krebs : The War in the Pacific 1943–1945. In: The German Reich and the Second World War . Edited by Military History Research Office . Volume 7: The German Reich on the Defensive - Strategic Air War in Europe, War in the West and in East Asia 1943 to 1944/45. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, pp. 643-771, ISBN 978-3-421-05507-1
• Nikolai Krylov : Stalingradskij Rubez Stalingrad-The decisive battle of the Second World War. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7609-0624-9 .
• Andreas Kunz: Wehrmacht and defeat. The armed power in the final phase of the National Socialist rule 1944 to 1945. Munich 2005.

L to P

• Peter Longerich: Hitler. Biography. Siedler, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8275-0060-1 . (Parts VI and VII).
• Walter Lord: The Battle of Midway . Scherz, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-502-18417-8 .
• Alexander Lüdeke : The Second World War. Causes, outbreak, course, consequences. Parragon Books, Bath (UK) 2007.

• Geoffrey P. Megargee: Hitler and the Generals. The struggle for leadership in the Wehrmacht 1933–1945 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-75633-8 . First edition: Inside Hitler's High Command . University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2000, ISBN 0-7006-1015-4 .
• Manfred Messerschmidt: Greatest severity ... Crimes of the Wehrmacht in Poland September / October 1939. (PDF; 2.11 MB; War crimes of the Wehrmacht )
• Wolfgang Michalka : The Second World War. Analyzes, basic features, research results. Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Piper, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-492-10811-3 . (2nd edition 1990).

• Military history research office of the Bundeswehr: The German Reich and the Second World War (10 volumes). DVA, 1978-2008, DNB 550799079
• Rolf-Dieter Müller : The Second World War (=  manual of German history . Volume 21). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-60021-3 .
• Rolf-Dieter Müller, Gerd R. Ueberschär : Hitler's War in the East 1941-1945. A research report. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000. ISBN 3-534-14768-5 .

• Birgit Morgenrath (Ed.): Our victims don't count. The Third World in World War II. Association A, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935936-26-5 .
• John Mosier: The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II. HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN 0-06-000977-2 .

• Sönke Neitzel , Bernd Heidenreich (ed.): Media in National Socialism . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76710-3 .
• Sönke Neitzel , Harald Welzer : Soldiers. Logs of Fighting, Killing and Dying. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-089434-2 . ("A terrifying interior view of World War II").

• Erwin Oberländer (Ed.): Hitler-Stalin Pact. The end of East Central Europe? Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-24434-X .
• Rüdiger Overmans : German military losses in World War II. 3rd edition, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-20028-3 .
• Richard Overy : The Roots of Victory: Why the Allies Won World War II. rororo, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-61314-X .
• Richard Overy: The Bomb War. Europe 1939–1945 , German by Hainer Kober . Rowohlt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-782-5 .
• Richard Overy: Total War II: The Second World War. In: Charles Townshend (Ed.): The Oxford History of Modern War. 2005

• The big Ploetz. The encyclopedia of world history. Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, 35th edition ISBN 978-3-86941-418-8 . (founded in 1863 by Karl Julius Ploetz )
• Dieter Pohl: The rule of the armed forces. German military occupation and local population in the Soviet Union 1941–1944. Munich 2008.

R to Z

• Werner Rahn: The war in the Pacific . In: The German Reich and the Second World War . Edited by Military History Research Office . Volume 6. The expansion to the world war and the change of initiative 1941–1943 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990, pp. 173-271, ISBN 3-421-06233-1
• LV Richard, Island Diver in the Pacific , Moewig, Rastatt 1985, ISBN 3-8118-4346-X
• Horst Rohde: Hitler's first "Blitzkrieg" and its effects on Northeast Europe . In "The German Reich and the Second World War"; Vol. 2). DVA, Stuttgart 1979
• Friedrich Ruge , Decision in the Pacific (The events in the Pacific 1941–1945) , Rütten & Loening, Hamburg 1961

• Michael Schneider : In war society. Workers and the labor movement 1939 to 1945. JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-8012-5038-6 .
• Gerhard Schreiber : The Second World War (=  Beck'sche series 2164). 5th edition, Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-44764-8 .
• Gerhard Schreiber: Hitler interpretations 1923–1983. Results, methods and problems of research . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-07081-X . (2nd, improved and supplemented by an annotated bibliography for the years 1984–1987 edition 1988)
• Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2001 ISBN 3-506-78245-2
• Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin . CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62184-0 ; First edition in English: London 2010, ISBN 978-0-224-08141-2 (also on the German Hunger Plan )

• Charles Townshend (Ed.): The Oxford History of Modern War. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005.
• Adam Tooze : Economics of Destruction. The history of the economy under National Socialism. Siedler Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-857-1 .
• Harry Thürk: Midway. The turn of the Pacific War . Brandenburgisches Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89488-040-6 .
• Wassili Iwanowitsch Tschuikow : The battle of the century . Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-327-00637-7 .

• Gerhard L. Weinberg : A world in arms. The global history of World War II. DVA, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-421-05000-7 .
• Bernd-Jürgen Wendt: Germany 1933–1945. The Third Empire". History manual. Torch bearer, Hanover 1995, ISBN 3-7716-2209-3 .
• Wolfram Wette , Gerd R. Ueberschär (Ed.): Stalingrad. Myth and Reality of a Battle . Extended 5th edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19511-4 .
• Andrew Wiest, Gregory L. Mattson, War in the Pacific 1941–1945 , Tosa, Vienna, 2002, ISBN 3-85492-483-6
• Hedley Paul Willmott : The Second World War in the Pacific . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, 1999, ISBN 3-89488-138-0 .
• Heinrich August Winkler : History of the West. The time of the world wars 1914–1945. Beck, Munich 2011.

• Christian Zentner (Ed.): Third Reich and Second World War . Tigris Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-632-98921-4 .
• John Zimmermann : Duty to Doom. The German warfare in the west of the Reich 1944/45. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76783-7 . (Age of World Wars, Volume 4).

On the prehistory of the war

• PMH Bell: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe. Longman, 1997. ISBN 0-582-30470-9 .
• Andrew J. Crozier: The causes of the Second World War . Blackwell, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-631-17128-2 .
• Wilhelm Deist u. a .: Causes and conditions of the Second World War . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-596-24432-3 (former title: Causes and Requirements of German War Policy ).
• Ludwig Denne: The Danzig problem in German foreign policy 1934-1939 . Röhrscheid Verlag, Bonn 1959.
• Richard J. Evans : The Third Reich. Volume 2 / I-II: Dictatorship . DVA, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-421-05653-6 .
• Ernst Fraenkel : The Dual State. A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship . Transl. from the German by EA Shils, in collaboration with Edith Lowenstein and Klaus Knorr, Oxford University Press , New York [u. a.] 1941
  • The dual state. Law and Justice in the “Third Reich” . Backward from the English by Manuela Schöps in collaboration with the author, Europäische Verlagsanstalt , Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-434-20062-2 .
• Hermann Graml : Europe's way to war. Hitler and the Powers 1939 . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55151-5 .
• Angela Hermann: The way to the war 1938/39. Source-critical studies on the diaries of Joseph Goebbels . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70513-3 .
• Klaus Hildebrand (Ed.): 1939. On the threshold of the world war . De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-11-012596-X .
• Klaus Hildebrand, Karl Ferdinand Werner (ed.): Germany and France 1936–1939. 15th Franco-German Historians' Colloquium of the German Historical Institute Paris (Supplement of the Francia, 10), Munich / Zurich (Artemis) 1981, ISBN 3-7608-4660-2 . Online at perspectivia.net
• Walther Hofer (ed.): The unleashing of the Second World War. A study of international relations in the summer of 1939 . LIT-Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0383-4 .
• Hans-Adolf Jacobsen : National Socialist Foreign Policy 1933–1938 . Metzner publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1968.
• Erich Kosthorst: The birth of tragedy from the spirit of obedience. Germany's generals and Hitler. Bouvier, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02755-8 .
• Richard Lamb: The failed peace. England's Foreign Policy 1935–1945 . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-550-07648-7 .
• Rudolf A. Mark (ed.): Annihilation through hunger: the Holodomor in the Ukraine and the USSR . Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag BWV, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-8305-0883-2 . ( Holodomor )
• Wolfgang Michalka (Ed.): National Socialist Foreign Policy (= ways of research . Volume 297). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3-534-07245-6 .
• Wolfgang Michalka: Ribbentrop and German world politics, 1933-1940. Foreign policy concepts and decision-making processes in the Third Reich (= publications by the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim . Volume 5). Fink, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7705-1400-9 .
• Marie-Luise Recker : The foreign policy of the Third Reich . Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55501-4 .
• Hans-Erich Volkmann (Ed.): End of the Third Reich - End of the Second World War. A perspective review, Zurich 1995.
• Gerhard L. Weinberg : Hitler's foreign policy. The road to World War II, 1933-1939 . Enigma Books, New York 2005, ISBN 1-929631-27-8 (former title "The foreign policy of Hitler's Germany")
• Bernd-Jürgen Wendt: Greater Germany. Foreign policy and war preparation of the Hitler regime . Dtv, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-423-04518-3 .

1939, the war against Poland

prehistory

• Walther Hofer : The unleashing of the Second World War. Lit Verlag, Vienna [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0383-4 (based on Hofer's book Die Entfesselung des Second World War. A study of international relations in the summer of 1939. DVA 1954 or on his habilitation thesis Die Europäische Mächte und der Ausbruch des Second World War. FU Berlin , 1952).
• Tomasz Lubienski: 1939. Poland was not yet lost. Edition.fotoTAPETA, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940524-08-9 (Original title: 1939 Zaczelo sie we wrzesniu. Translated by Antje Ritter-Jasinska.)
• Erwin Oberländer (Ed.): Hitler-Stalin Pact. The end of East Central Europe? Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-24434-X .
• Manfred Messerschmidt : Foreign Policy and Preparations for War. In: Wilhelm Deist , Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann and Wolfram Wette: The German Reich and the Second World War , Vol. 1: Causes and requirements of German war policy , published by the Military History Research Office , DVA , Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421- 01934-7 .
• Horst Rohde: Hitler's first "Blitzkrieg" and its effects on Northeast Europe. In: Klaus A. Maier, Horst Rohde, Bernd Stegemann, Hans Umbreit: The German Reich and the Second World War, Vol. 2: The establishment of hegemony on the European continent , published by the Military History Research Office, DVA, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3- 421-01935-5 , pp. 79-156. (during the planning and deployment phase, less fighting)
• Herbert Schindler: Mosty and Dirschau 1939 - Two hand strokes by the Wehrmacht before the start of the Polish campaign. Rombach, Freiburg 1971, ISBN 3-7930-0151-2 . (on two commando companies of August 26, 1939)
• Günter Wollstein : The Policy of National Socialist Germany towards Poland 1933–1939 / 45. In: M. Funke (Ed.): Hitler, Germany and the Powers - Material on the foreign policy of the Third Reich. Düsseldorf 1976.

Course of the war in Poland

• The Second World War on the map. Vol. 1. The Polish Campaign. A situation atlas of the operations department of the General Staff of the Army. Scale 1: 3000000. Biblio-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1760-7 .
• Rolf Elble : The Battle of the Bzura in September 1939 from a German and a Polish point of view. Freiburg 1975, ISBN 3-7930-0174-1 . (on the differences between the armies and a Polish operation)
• Janusz Piekałkiewicz : Polish campaign. Hitler and Stalin smash the Polish Republic. Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-907-5 . (on the Polish point of view, with many previously unknown images and contemporary documents)
• Bertil Stjernfelt, Klaus-Richard Böhme: Westerplatte 1939. Rombach, Freiburg 1978, ISBN 3-7930-0182-2 . (Standard work)
• Jochen Böhler : The attack. Germany's war against Poland. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-8218-5706-4 .

First war crimes

• Jochen Böhler (Ed.): "Greatest hardship ...". Crimes of the Wehrmacht in Poland September - October 1939. Fiber, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 3-938400-07-2 . (Exhibition catalog and two essays)
• Jochen Böhler: Prelude to the war of extermination. The Wehrmacht in Poland in 1939. A publication by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-16307-2 and Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), series of publications vol. 550, 2006, ISBN 3-89331-679-5 . ( Die Zeit 24/2006: Review Die Zeit 2006: Nobody stayed alive. )
• Martin Broszat : National Socialist Poland Policy 1939-1945. (1965) Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-70382-5 .
• Czeslaw Madajczyk, Berthold Puchert: The occupation policy of Nazi Germany in Poland 1939-1945. Pahl-Rugenstein, Berlin / Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7609-1198-6 .
• Rüdiger Ritter: Division of Labor Mass Murder: War crimes in Lithuania during the Second World War. In: Timm C. Richter (Ed.): War and crime. Situation and intention: case studies. Villa ten Hompel Aktuell 9, ISBN 3-89975-080-2 .
• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Cape. 6: Poland 1939: The Experience of Racist Mass Murder. 4th, revised and supplemented edition, Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-87-5 , pp. 419–485.

Occupation Policy in Poland

• Christoph Kleßmann (Ed.): September 1939. War, occupation, resistance in Poland. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-33559-8 .
• Jan T. Gross: Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton University Press 2002, ISBN 0-691-09603-1 .
• Christoph Kleßmann (Ed.): September 1939. War, occupation, resistance in Poland. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-33559-8 .
• Jan T. Gross: Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton University Press 2002, ISBN 0-691-09603-1 .

To the German-Soviet War

• Wigbert Benz : The Russian campaign of the Third Reich. Causes, goals, effects. To Cope With Genocide Taking The History Class Into Account. 2nd Edition. Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-89228-199-8 .
• Wolfgang Fleischer : Company Barbarossa 1941. Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1998, ISBN 3-7909-0654-9 .
• Karl-Heinz Frieser (Ed.): The Eastern Front 1943/1944. The war in the east and on the secondary fronts. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-06235-2 . (The German Reich and the Second World War Volume 8). ( Review by Christoph Dieckmann 2010 )
• Christian Hartmann : Company Barbarossa. The German War in the East 1941–1945. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61226-8 .
• Rolf-Dieter Müller , Gerd R. Ueberschär : Hitler's War in the East 1941-1945: A Research Report. Extended and completely revised new edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-14768-5 .
• Dirk W. Oetting: No war like in the west. Wehrmacht and Soviet Army in the Russian War 1941–1945. Osning Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-9806268-8-0 .
• Gerd R. Ueberschär, Wolfram Wette (ed.): The German attack on the Soviet Union. “Enterprise Barbarossa” 1941. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-24437-4 .

To Wehrmacht crimes

• Birgit Beck : Wehrmacht and sexual violence. Sex crimes before German military courts 1939–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-71726-X ( review ; PDF; 53 kB)
• Wendy Jo Gertjejanssen: Victims, Heroes, Survivors. Sexual Violence On The Eastern Front During World War II . University of Minnesota, May 2004 ( PDF 13 MB - Dissertation).
• Karl Glaubauf , Stefanie Lahousen: Major General Erwin Lahousen - Edler von Vivremont. A Linz defense officer in the military resistance. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7259-9 .
• Hamburg Institute for Social Research (Ed.): Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941–1944. 2nd, expanded edition 2002. Hamburger Edition , ISBN 3-930908-74-3 .
• Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Ulrike Jureit (ed.): Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Balance of a debate. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52802-3 . (online at: books.google.de )
• Christian Hartmann : Company Barbarossa. The German War in the East 1941–1945. Chapter 5 Crimes (pp. 469–788) 1st edition, Oldenbourg 2009.
• Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Hitler's instructions for warfare 1939–1945. Documents of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. 2nd edition, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-5247-1 .
• Walter Manoschek: Annihilation War - Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944. In: Dirk Rupnow (Hrsg.): Wehrmachtsausstellung-en in discourse. Studien-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1734-5 .
• Walter Manoschek : The Wehrmacht in the race war. The war of annihilation behind the front. Picus Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85452-295-9 .
• Sönke Neitzel : bugged - German generals in British captivity 1942–1945. Propylaeen-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-549-07261-9 .
• Dieter Pohl : Persecution and mass murder in the Nazi era 1933–1945. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-15158-5 .
• Karl Heinrich Pohl (ed.): Wehrmacht and extermination policy. Military in the National Socialist system. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-01382-5 .
• Heribert Prantl (Ed.): Wehrmacht Crimes. A German controversy. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-10365-0 .
• Rüdiger Ritter: Division of Labor Mass Murder: War crimes in Lithuania during the Second World War. In: Timm C. Richter (Ed.): War and crime. Situation and intention: case studies. Villa ten Hompel Aktuell 9, ISBN 3-89975-080-2 .
• Andreas Toppe: Military and international law. Legal norms, specialist discourse and war practice in Germany 1899–1940. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58206-2 .
• Gerd R. Ueberschär :
  • Places of horror. Crimes in World War II. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-89678-232-0 .
  • Nazi crimes and the military resistance against Hitler. Primus Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89678-169-3 .
• Wolfram Wette : The Wehrmacht - Enemy Images War of Extermination Legends. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7632-5267-3 .

in the Soviet Union

• Wassili Grossman, Ilja Ehrenburg, Arno Lustiger: The Black Book. The genocide of the Soviet Jews. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
• Hannes Heer : Women who serve in the Red Army are always to be shot. Confessions of German prisoners of war about their use on the Eastern Front Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930908-06-9 .
• Johannes Hürter: Hitler's military leader. The German commanders-in-chief in the war against the Soviet Union in 1941/42. 2nd edition, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58341-0 .
• Hans-Adolf Jacobsen : Commissar order and mass executions of Soviet prisoners of war. In: Martin Broszat, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Helmut Krausnick: Anatomy of the SS State. Volume 2, ISBN 3-423-02916-1 .
• Rolf Keller: Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich 1941/42. Treatment and employment between the policy of extermination and the requirements of the war economy. Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0989-0 . Reviews: H-Soz-u-Kult February 9, 2012, www.kulturthemen.de February 9, 2012
• Rolf-Dieter Müller : The Last German War 1939-1945. 2005, ISBN 3-608-94133-9 .
• Dieter Pohl : The rule of the armed forces. German military occupation and local population in the Soviet Union 1941–1944. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58065-5 .
• Alfred Streim : Soviet prisoners in Hitler's war of extermination. Reports and documents 1941–1945. Müller Juristischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 3-8114-2482-3 .
• Alfred Streim: The treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in the "Barbarossa case". Müller Juristischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3-8114-2281-2 .
• Christian Streit: The treatment of the Soviet prisoners of war and international law problems of the war against the Soviet Union. In: Gerd R. Ueberschär, Wolfram Wette : "Operation Barbarossa". The German attack on the Soviet Union. Revised new edition. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-24437-4 .
• Christian Streit: No comrades. The Wehrmacht and the Soviet prisoners of war 1941–1945. New edition. Dietz, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8012-5023-7 .

in Southeast Europe

• Hagen Fleischer , Loukia Droulia (Ed.): From Lidice to Kalvryta. Resistance and Terror of Occupation. Series: Nazi Occupation Policy in Europe 1939–1945. Volume 8, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932482-10-7 .
• Hagen Fleischer: In the cross shadow of the powers. Greece 1941–1944 (occupation - resistance - collaboration). Series: Studies on the History of Southeast Europe . Frankfurt a. M. / Bern / New York 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8581-3 .
• Marlen von Xylander: The German occupation in Crete 1941-1945. Individual publications on military history, Vol. 32, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-7930-0192-X .
• Hermann Frank Meyer : Bloody edelweiss. The 1st Mountain Division in World War II. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-447-1 . (online at: books.google.com )
• Hermann Frank Meyer: Kommeno: narrative reconstruction of a Wehrmacht crime in Greece. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-929889-34-X .
• David Leuenburger: “Land of idleness”: Germany's debt (s) to Greece - Germany is presenting itself as an impeccable debt brake in the current EU debt crisis. Its historical debts to Greece can hardly be recorded with money. Jena Jan. 2012, 58th issue (PDF; 8.0 MB) of Unique magazine , 11th year, p. 12 f., ISSN  1612-2267 .
• Hermann Frank Meyer : From Vienna to Kalavryta. The bloody trail of the 117th Jäger Division through Serbia and Greece. Mannheim / Möhnesee 2002, ISBN 3-933925-22-3 .
• Walter Manoschek: “Serbia is free of Jews”: military occupation policy and the extermination of Jews in Serbia in 1941/42. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56137-5 .

in Italy

• Friedrich Andrae: Also against women and children: the war of the German armed forces against the civilian population in Italy 1943–1945 . Piper, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-492-03698-8 .
• Carlo Gentile : Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Partisan War: Italy 1943–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76520-8 . (Cologne, Univ., Diss., 2008.)
• Christiane Kohl : The sky was bright blue. About the raging of the Wehrmacht in Italy. Reportage tape. Picus, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85452-484-7 .
• Gerhard Schreiber : German war crimes in Italy. Perpetrator - victim - law enforcement. CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39268-7 .
• Gerhard Schreiber: The Italian military internees in the German sphere of influence, 1943–1945. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55391-7 .

in Western Europe

• Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-693-8 .
• Peter Lieb : Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57992-5 .

Participation in the Shoah / Holocaust

• Walter Manoschek: "Where the partisan is, there is the Jew, and where the Jew is, the partisan is". The Wehrmacht and the Shoah. In: Gerhard Paul (ed.): The perpetrators of the Shoah. Fanatic National Socialists or just normal Germans? Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History Volume 2, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-503-6 .
• Walter Manoschek: Serbia is free of Jews. Military occupation policy and the extermination of Jews in Serbia 1941/42. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55974-5 .

Forced labor

• Almuth Püschel: Forced labor in Potsdam: foreign workers and prisoners of war. Märkischer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-931329-37-2 .

Rape and forced prostitution

• Birgit Beck : Wehrmacht and sexual violence. Sex crimes before German military courts 1939–1945. Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-71726-X .
• Insa Meinen: Wehrmacht and prostitution during the Second World War in occupied France. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-86108-789-8 .
• Regina Mühlhäuser : Conquests - Sexual acts of violence and intimate relationships of German soldiers in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Hamburger Edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-86854-220-2 .
• David R. Snyder: Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-4332-3 .

Historical reception and processing of the crimes

• Detlev Bald, Johannes Klotz, Wolfram Wette: The Wehrmacht Myth. Post-war debates and maintaining tradition. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-8072-7 .
• Christian Gerlach, Johannes Klotz, Reinhard Kühnl: Wehrmacht as a model? Wehrmacht crimes, right-wing extremism and the Bundeswehr. Papyrossa, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89438-162-0 .
• Wilfried Loth , Bernd-A. Rusinek : Transformation policy: Nazi elites in West German post-war society. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-593-35994-4 .
• Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak, Ruth Wodak, Hannes Heer (eds.): How history is made. For the construction of memories of the Wehrmacht and World War II. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7076-0161-7 .
• Alexander Pollak: The Wehrmacht legend in Austria. The image of the Wehrmacht in the mirror of the Austrian press after 1945. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-77021-8 .

About the war in the Pacific

• Thomas J. Cutler: Decision in the Pacific . Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main 1996. ISBN 3-550-07081-0
• Gerhard Krebs u. a .: The war in the Pacific 1943–1945. In: The German Reich and the Second World War . Edited by German Military History Research Office . Volume 7, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, pp. 643-771, ISBN 978-3-421-05507-1
• Andrew Wiest, Gregory L. Mattson: War in the Pacific 1941-1945 . Tosa, Vienna 2002. ISBN 3-85492-483-6

Political reappraisal after the end of the war

• Gar Alperovitz: Hiroshima. The decision to drop the bomb. Hamburg 1995 (Orig. 1995).
• Boris Barth : Genocide - Genocide in the 20th Century. History, theories, controversies . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52865-1 .
• Wolfgang Benz : Exclusion, Displacement, Genocide. Genocide in the 20th century. dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-34370-1 .
• John Cooper: Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2008, ISBN 0-230-51691-2 . (on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide , Raphael Lemkin )
• Jörg Echternkamp : Soldiers in the Post War. Historical conflicts of interpretation and West German democratization 1945 - 1955 (= contributions to military history . Vol. 76). De Gruyter Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-035122-4 .

• Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American occupation of Germany. Munich 1995.
• Ulrich Herbert, Axel Schildt (ed.): End of the war in Europe. From the beginning of the German collapse of power to the stabilization of the post-war order 1944–1948. Essen 1998.
• Jörg Hillmann, John Zimmermann (Ed.): End of the war in Germany in 1945. Munich 2002.

• Hans von Mangoldt , Volker Rittberger , Franz Knipping (eds.): The United Nations system and its precursors. With the collaboration of Martin Mogler and Stephan Wilske. 3 volumes in 2 sub-volumes. Stämpfli + CIE AG, Bern 1995. ISBN 3-7272-9374-8 and CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39107-9 .

Source and memoir literature

(Biographies sorted by the surname of the person concerned)

• Files on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945. From the archive of the Federal Foreign Office. Series D (1937-1945) Volume VI; also: Series C (1933–1937), Volume I – VI, Series D (1937–1945), Volume I – V, Volume VII-XIII. Keppler-Verlag, Baden-Baden; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1950–1995. Online access via search mask
• Atlas of the World Battle Fronts in Semimonthly Phases to August 15 1945 , 1945. Made for George C. Marshall , the Chief of Staff of the US Army. (Front line every 14 days, development immediately after the war; also online at wikisource)
• Blue Book of the British Government on German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 ("Documents and documents on the outbreak of war"). Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel 1939 (= official translation of the Documents, Miscellaneous No.9, 1939 ).

• Winston S. Churchill : The Second World War . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-596-16113-4 .
• Birger Dahlerus: The last attempt. London-Berlin, summer 1939 . Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1948.

• Hans-Edwin Friedrich: Deformed images of life. Narrative models of post-war autobiography (1945–1960). (Studies and texts on the social history of literature 74), Tübingen 2000.

• Franz Halder : War Diary. Daily records of the Chief of the Army General Staff 1939–1942 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962 (Vol. 1, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (Ed.)).
• Walter Hink: Self-approaches. Autobiographies in the 20th century from Elias Canetti to Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Düsseldorf / Zurich 2004.

• Helmut Peitsch: "Germany's memory of its darkest time". On the function of autobiography in the western zones of Germany and the western sectors from Berlin 1945 to 1949. (Sigma-Medienwissenschaft 5), Berlin 1990.
• Angelika Schaser (ed.): Remembrance cartels. On the construction of autobiographies after 1945. Bochum 2003.

Bibliographies

• Jürgen Rohwer : New Research on the Second World War. Literature reports and bibliographies from 67 countries. , 1990, text partly in German, partly in English, partly in French Koblenz, Bernard & Graefe
• Othmar Tuider, Anton Legler, Hans Egon Wittas: Bibliography on the history of the field divisions of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS 1939-1945. Vienna, Army History Museum / Military History Institute. (1976-1984)

See also

• Daily chronology of the Second World War (list of individual Wikipedia articles on most of the war events )
• Literature list on the Pacific War

Web links

• Statement by the Science Council on the Military History Research Office (MGFA) , Potsdam, 2006 (particularly on the research contract; PDF file with 264 kB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table of contents, excerpt