There are, of course, many books on (or related to) the Holocaust. Here are some nonfiction works that I'd recommend checking out:
- The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler's "Final Solution" by Walter Laqueur
- The Path to Genocide by Christopher R. Browning
- Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil by Yaacov Lozowick
- Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization during the Holocaust by Helen Fein
- Night: A Memoir by Elie Wiesel
- The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
- Why? Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes
- Legislating the Holocaust: The Bernhard Loesener Memoirs and Supporting Documents, edited by Karl A. Schleunes
- The Origins of The Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning
- The Drowned and The Saved by Primo Levi
- Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
- Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps by Tzvetan Todorov
- Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" by David Cesarani
- Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 by Richard Overy
- The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz
- Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth
- Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz by Primo Levi
- The Psychology of Dictatorship by G.M. Gilbert
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
- Fathoming the Holocaust: A Social Problems Approach by Ronald J. Berger
- Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals by Joel E. Dimsdale
- The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
- Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
- Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
- Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest
- KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
- Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny
- Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann
Some novels to consider:
- The Wall by John Hersey
- Treblinka by Jean-François Steiner
- Life with a Star by Jiri Weil
- Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
- Mila 18 by Leon Uris
- A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli
Updated with addition of A Meal in Winter and Shoah.]
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