1. The Accumulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
2. Berlin Blockade
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   
3. Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1972
   An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
   
4. Blood and Belonging
   Journey into the New Nationalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   
5. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1972
   Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
6. Concerning Morocco
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1911
   The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
   
7. Critique of the Gotha Programme
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1875
   Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
8. Deutschland nach dem Kriege
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   
9. The Elections to the National Assembly
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1918
   The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
   
10. Exiled in Paradise
    German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America From the 1930's to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
11. Die Flucht
    Uber die Vertreibing der Deutschen aus dem Osten
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    
12. German Catholics and Hitler's Wars
    A study in social control
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
13. Germany and European Civilization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1944
    From at least the time of the publication of Capital to the present day, all political and social thought, particularly in Europe, have revolved around the ideas of Marxism. And these ideas were nourished, developed, propagated and defended above all by the German proletariat. Not only the revolutionary movement but modern thought owes the German workers a debt which it can never repay. So far has Marxism penetrated into the thought of the time that today the ideas of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals, who consider themselves anti-Marxists, have validity only to the extent that they have borrowed or unconsciously assimilated the very ideas which they oppose.
    
14. Gestapo
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
15. Heimat Ostpreussen
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1949
    
16. Howl Like the Wolves
    Growing up in nazi Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
17. 100 Jahre Kaufungen in Bildern
    Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
18. Inside the Third Reich
    Memoirs by Albert Speer
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
19. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
20. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
21. The Last Jews in Berlin
    Powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
22. The Lesson of Germany
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1945
    Hitler's hundreds of thousands of storm troopers represented an enormous expense. They were thugs hired by the German bourgeoisie to fight its battles against the working class. In the years 1930-33 the German bureaucracy engineered election after election hoping to discredit parliamentary government and open the way for authoritarian rule. Despite his immense influence over the petty bourgeoisie, Hitler, by 1932, was on the wane. The German bourgeoisie deliberately maintained Nazism to have some power in reserve against Bolshevism. True, he dominated them afterward. We do not mean for one moment to deny the energy, the inventiveness, the will, the tenacity of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. We do not deny their skilful use of social contradictions. He himself was obviously a born leader of men and an orator the like of whom Europe has not often seen. But from the time he began, the German bourgeoisie, the military caste, the bureaucracy, all built him up and without their active conscious support he would have been nothing.
    
23. Letter to Bracke
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1875
    Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
24. Lost Berlin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
25. The National Assembly
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
    
26. Nazi Olympics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Describes the Nazification of sports in Germany in the 1930s and its broader context.
27. The Nazi Seizure of Power
    The Experience of a Single German Town
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
28. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
29. The Nuremberg Rallies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
30. Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
    
31. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1935
    
32. Our Program and the Political Situation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
    
33. The Peasant War in Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1850
    The Peasant War in Germany was the first history book to assert that the real motivating force behind the Reformation and 16th-century peasant war was socio-economic (class conflict) rather than "merely" religious.
34. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
35. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
36. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
37. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
38. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
39. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
40. Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1852
    Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.
41. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1896
    
42. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    A History of Nazi Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
    
43. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
44. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
45. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
46. Sex-Pol
    Essays 1929-1934
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
47. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
    
48. Stalin and German Communism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1949
    
49. Stones from the River
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
50. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
51. Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
52. Widerstand und Verweigerung in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    
53. Wir sind nackt und nennen uns Du
    Von Lichtfreunden und Sonnenk#mpfern; eine Geschichte der Freikörperkultur
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Fesselnde Kulturgeschichte der FKK-Bewegung von Kaisers Zeiten bis in die 1970er.
54. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    

Experts on German History in the Sources Directory

1. Deutsches Historisches Museum