The Bibliography

Trump is a recent phenomenon with almost all of his words being capable of being verified via video. While there have been numerous books about him, I decided against reading any of them as they have been published too recently. It takes more than a few years before any book can report the full measure of a man or a time. I also decided not to read any of the books written by him, except for the one listed below. 

Hitler on the other hand has numerous books written about him, so I limited myself to some of the classics:

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Schirer. The granddaddy of all the books on Hitler. As Schirer lived in Berlin for much of the book, it has an "I was there vibe to it". 

• Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. The only one of Hitler's lieutenants to write a book, which gave a look at the inner works of the Nazi regime. When reading you need to keep in mind that Speer may be shading the truth to make himself appear in a better light.

• The Devil's Disciples by Anthoney Read. Possibly the most comprehensive look at Hitler's lieutenants (mainly focusing on Göring, Goebbels, and Himmler) and how they interacted with Hitler.

• The Reich Marshall A Biography of Herman Goering by Leonard Mosley. A good background on Hitler's most loyal lieutenant (until Hitler felt he was betrayed and forced him to resign in disgrace - see The Götterdämmerung)

• Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings. World War II greatest historian provides the best one-volume history of WWII.

• A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War Hardcover  by Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett.

• Why The Allies Won by Richard Avery. Avery provided me at least with some fresh ideas about WWII, that included Nazi military incompetence largely due to Hitler's personal incompetence and inability to hire able lieutenants.   

• The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg.  A true story about an English woman who in 1932 married a German lawyer, became a German citizen, and moved to Germany (they say that timing is the key to life). It's about everyday life in the Third Reich, from Hitler's rise to power until the very last day of WWII, all while her husband is on the edge of the 20 July plot to kill Hitler. 

  • Use this link provided courtesy of TrumpEqualsHitler.com (and the Internet Archive) to read it for free. 

• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer. One of the most fascinating books I've ever read (and re-read). Hoffer was a migrant worker, longshoreman, prospector, and self-taught philosopher. He wrote The True Believer in 1951 on the heel of Nazism, Japanese Nationalism, and Communism. 

• My New Order A Collection of Speeches by Adolf Hilter. I never read it, but supposedly a personal favorite of Trump. 

• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. I tried, but it's a tough slog.

Trump:

• Winners Aren't Losers by Donald Trump. Like all of the books written by Trump, this one appears to be ghostwritten. 

  • Use this link provided courtesy of TrumpEqualsHitler.com (and FLIPHTML5) to read it for free. 

• The Trump Archive is a compendium of almost every tweet tweeted by Donald Trump.

If there is another book out there that needs to be read, please email me at TrumpEqualsHitler@gmail.com.

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot.”

- Anonymous 

Note: Hitler personally owned about 16,000 volumes, stored at several locations. The vast majority of this collection was lost in the closing days of World War II as the various portions were looted and destroyed. 

The vast range of eclectic topics included: 

• A large portion of Hitler’s original collection was popular fiction. Hitler’s favorite books by far were the 19th-century novels of Karl May, who wrote heavily romanticized adventures involving Native Americans in the Old West [a subject that remains a fixture in German popular culture]. 

• Of course, many titles on National Socialist ideology, anti-Semitism, and German nationalism.

• The largest single subject in Hitler’s library concerned military matters, to number about 7,000 volumes, and containing works on every conceivable subset of military science and history.

  • Hitler seemed most interested in the technical dimension of warfare.

• Biographies about the great captains of history.