The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a 1960 non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the general history of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. The book is based upon captured Third Reich documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author’s recollections of six years’ of Third Reich reportage, for newspapers, the United Press International (UPI), and CBS Radio, ended by Nazi Party censorship in 1940. In 1961, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich earned a National Book Award, and was adapted to television as a sort of miniseries and broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company network in 1968. Three hours long, the program was telecast one hour a night over three nights.
- Adolf Hitler is Born - April 20, 1889
- Hitler's Boyhood - 1895-1903
- Hitler's Father Dies - January 3, 1903
- Hitler Fails Art Exam - October 1907
- Hitler's Mother Dies - December 21, 1907
- Hitler is Homeless in Vienna - 1909-1913
- Hitler in World War I - 1914-1918
- War Ends with German Defeat - November 11, 1918
- Hitler Joins German Workers' Party - 1919
- Nazi Party is Formed - 1920
- Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party - July 1921
- The Beer Hall Putsch - November 9, 1923
- Hitler on Trial for Treason - February 26, 1924
- Hitler's Book "Mein Kampf"
- A New Beginning - February 26, 1925
- The Quiet Years - 1926-1929
- Great Depression Begins - October 29, 1929
- Germans Elect Nazis - September 14, 1930
- Success and a Suicide - 1931
- Hitler Runs for President - 1932
- The Republic Collapses
- Hitler Named Chancellor of Germany - January 30, 1933
- The Reichstag Burns - February 27, 1933
- Hitler Becomes Dictator of Germany - March 23, 1933
- Author/Bibliography
The Triumph of Hitler - The pre-war years of Nazi Germany, 1933-39.
Part III of our Hitler History
The Defeat of Hitler - Quest for a Nazi Empire, 193
