Scholarly Literature
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)
Richard Bessel, ed., Life in the Third Reich (1987)
Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis (1999)
Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008)
Lisa Pine, Hitler’s ‘National Community’: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany, 2nd ed. (2017)
Shelley Baranowski, Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (2007)
Irene Guenther, Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich (2004)
Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (2014)
Michael Kater, Hitler Youth (2006)
Despina Stratigakos, Hitler at Home (2020)
Alison Owings: Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (1995)
Memoirs
Jurgen Herbst, Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood Among the Nazis (1999)
Melita Maschmann, Account Rendered: A Dossier on My Former Life (1965)
Hans Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany (2001)
Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin (1999)
Friedrich Reck, Diary of a Man in Despair (2013)
Marie Jalowicz Simon, Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany (2015)
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years (1999, 2001)
Anonyma, A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (1953, 2008)
Movies
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Swing Kids (1993)
The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Europa, Europa (1990)
The Harmonists (1997)
Mephisto (1981)
Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Aimée and Jaguar (1996)
13 Minutes (2015)
The Murderers are Among Us (1946)
Look Who’s Back (2015)
Music
Anything from Bertolt Brecht’s Three Penny Opera; for instance Lotte Lenya’s version of “Mack the Knife” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9GcykPIY
Anything from the movie Cabaret
Anything from the Comedian Harmonists, for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihzj929kYGQ (In der Bar zum Krokodil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMvkPzqkAQ (Veronika, der Lenz ist da)
Marlene Dietrich, Lili Marlene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jlT_Jb2efU
Websites
German History in Documents and Images (Nazi Germany section): http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=13
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: www.ushmm.org
Online Archives: The Holocaust Library Everyday life – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools