The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Resources
Websites
Short and to the point, this little bio will give you the basics you ought to know.
Wouldn't you just love to be memorialized by your alma mater like this?
Want a hard and fast overview of the Third Reich? Something that's roughly 1000 times shorter than William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich? If so, why not check out the "Third Reich: Overview" page on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum?
Movie or TV Productions
A television adaptation of William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, produced for television in 1968.
Articles and Interviews
The New York Times obituary for William L. Shirer, published in December 1993.
In this article in the Smithsonian Magazine, Ron Rosenbaum offers an adapted version of his Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Audio
Shmoop knows you've been dying to listen to William L. Shirer report on the signing of the Franco-German Armistice at Compiegne? Steve Wick, the author of The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, has uploaded this historic broadcast to Soundcloud.
On this website devoted to education about Old-Time Radio, you can read about William L. Shirer as you listen to clips of his historic broadcasts from 1939 and 1940.
An audio interview with William L. Shirer, originally broadcast on the CBS radio show Book Beat in 1984.
Images
A dapper-looking William L. Shirer in front of his CBS microphone.
A portrait of William L. Shirer in his later life, looking a whole lot like a certain Austrian psychoanalyst.
Just because The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has a swastika emblazoned on its cover, that doesn't mean its contents are pro-Nazi. Even so, Shmoop was a little self-conscious carrying it out of the library.
Hitler among his adoring public.
Hitler at a rally in front of his Nazi flags.
Nazi leaders, along with their sentences, at the Nuremberg trials. Missing: almost 100 prominent Nazis who killed themselves, including Hitler, Rommel, Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels