Here is a list of books which I’ve read in whole or in part during my research for academic and personal study.
Primary/Documentary Sources
World War II
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe & Ted Brusaw (1992)
Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich by George L. Mosse (1999)
America Views the Holocaust: 1933-1945 by Robert H. Anzug (1999)
The Hitler I Knew by Otto Dietrich (2010)
Night by Elie Wiesel (2006)
A Prisoner and Yet… by Corrie ten Boom (1978)
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (1974)
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War by Willy Peter Reese (2005)
Post-WWII
Captor-Captive by Joseph H. Williams (1986)
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Non-Fiction Secondary Sources
General
The Germans by Gordon A. Craig (1991)
A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present by Dietrich Orlow (2008)
Inventing the Nation: Germany by Stefan Berger (2004)
Germany: 2000 Years, Volume I: The Rise and Fall of the “Holy Roman Empire” by Kurt F. Reinhardt (1977)
Germany: 2000 Years, Volume II: The Second Empire and the Weimar Republic by Kurt F. Reinhardt (1977)
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan (1993)
East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia by Benson Bobrick (1992)
Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha (2014)
World War I
The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I by Laurence Lafore (1965)
World War II
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen G. Fritz (1995)
A Concise History of Nazi Germany by Joseph W. Bendersky (2007)
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings (1993)
The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz (2003)
From Weimar to Auschwitz by Hans Mommsen (1991)
Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning (1998)
The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp by Wolfgang Sofsky (1997)
Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Lawrence L. Langer (1995)
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan (1998)
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II by Lou Potter, William Miles & Nina Rosenblum (1992)
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny (1983)
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander (1997)
Neighbors by Jan Gross
Post-WWII
After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 by Konrad H. Jarausch (2006)
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard (2011)
Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany by Angelika Königseder and Juliane Wetzel (2001)
DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945-1951 by Mark Wyman (1998)
The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators by Katharina von Kellenbach (2013)
Holocaust Trauma: Psychological Effects and Treatment by Natan P.F. Kellermann Ph.D. (2009)
Fiction Secondary Sources
World War I
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque
Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
World War II
A Soldier’s Legacy by Heinrich Böll (1990)
The Eyewitness by Ernst Weiss (1977)
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Binjamin Wilkomirski (1996)
To Live and Fight Another Day by Bracha Weisbarth (2004)
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn