Germany 1914-1945
Background Sources |
Books |
Indexes to Articles |
Selected Websites
The items listed on this webpage can help you find additional information for your research. Most printed material is available in Suzzallo Reference. Databases marked UW Only require that you access these from computers on campus or from home using UWICK or the libraries proxy server.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates which can then be used as search terms for finding additional information. More importantly, because encyclopedias often cover the major issues surrounding the subect, they can help you narrow your research from a broad “who, what, where, when” topic to a “how or why” question. In addition many encyclopedia articles include short bibliographies that will lead you to the major works on the topic. These books are located in Suzzallo Reference (1st floor Suzzallo) or Undergraduate Reference (2nd floor Odegaard).
 
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- Adolf Hitler: a biographical companion
Suzzallo Reference
DD247.H5 N53 2000
- Encyclopedia of German resistance to the Nazi movement
Suzzallo Reference
DD256.5 .L51313 1997
- The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate Reference
D804.3 .E53 1990
- The encyclopedia of the Third Reich
Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate Reference
DD256.5 .G76313 1991
- Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus
Suzzallo Reference
DD256.5 .E52 1997
- A historical dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Suzzallo Reference
DD84 .V56 1997
- The Holocaust encyclopedia
Suzzallo Reference
D804.25 .H65 2001
- Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871-1990
Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate
DD14 .M64 1998
- World War II in Europe: an encyclopedia
Suzzallo Reference
D740 .W67 1999
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Use the following databases to locate books in the UW Libraries and in
other libraries around the region, nation and world. Books unavailable at
the UW and Cascade can be requested through the
UWorld Express (interlibrary loan)
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UW Libraries Catalog
A listing of the books, journal subscriptions and other material
available at the University of Washington Libraries.
- Summit
Joint catalog of the 26 Oregon and Washington libraries of the Orbis Cascade Alliance. Books can be requested online and sent to the UW.
- OCLC WorldCat [UW only]
A listing of books, journal subscriptions and other material
available in hundreds of major libraries in the U.S. and abroad.
- OhioLINK
Use OhioLink to access chapters of recent books, use the "Words"
search option.
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Use indexes/abstracts/bibliographies to find articles (from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers and sometimes books, dissertations, government reports, etc.) on a topic. Most indexes are arranged by subject or include a subject index. Indexes/abstracts are ongoing publications; bibliographies tend to be one volume and are more narrowly focused on a specific topic. There are indexes covering all sorts of subjects, use those which best fit your research topic. For a complete list of electronic indexes see Databases & Catalogs on the Information Gateway.
Once you identify articles you need make sure you have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages and year), then look in the UW Libraries Catalog for the journal name (do a title search for the journal name to see if the UW subscribes) to see if and where the journal is kept (library location and call number).
Databases marked UW Only require that you access these from computers on campus or from home using UWICK or the libraries proxy server. Articles
from journals which the UW does not own can be requested through the
UWorld Express (interlibrary loan).
  
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Specialized Indexes:
- Adolf Hitler and the Nazi epoch : an annotated bibliography of English-language works on the origins, nature, and structure of the Nazi state
Printed bibliography. [Reference Z8409.6 .M33 1998]
- Bibliographie zum Nationalsozialismus
Printed bibliography of sources dealing National Socialism. [Reference Z2241.N27 R83 1995]
- Dahlmann-Waitz. Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte
Standard bibliography of all of German history to the end of World War II. Multiple volumes. [Reference Z2236 .D14 1969]
- Historical Abstracts UW Only
Major index to journals published in the field of world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
- Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte
Index to articles and books in Germany history. Dates from 1949 onward. [Reference Z2236 .J26]
- The Nazi era, 1919-1945: a select bibliography of published works from the early roots to 1980
Bibliography primarily of 6500 books dealing Nazi Germany. [Reference Z2241.N27 K43 1982]
General Indexes:
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index UW Only.
Interdisciplinary database to articles in the humanities including history, philosophy, literature, etc. Electronic version dates back to 1980, part of the Web of Science.
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Expanded Academic Index UW Only.
Index to approximately 1500 journals and magazines in all disciplines. Selected full-text available.
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ) UW Only.
Index to over 5,600 international journals in the humanities and social sciences. Especially good for German language materials. Choose IBZ from the list of available databases. For earlier coverage see print versions [Reference AI9 .B512 and AI9 .B6].
- JSTOR [UW only]
Searchable collection of back issues of selected journals including the Historical Journal and the Journal of British Studies. For another collection of searchable electronic journals related to history see Project Muse.
- Research Library UW Only.
Index to articles in all fields, full-text
articles available for selected journals and magazines. Also known as Proquest
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This is a short selection of web sites useful for modern German history.
Photo: Roll call of Labor Service members in Nuremberg (1934).
History Subject Page | UW Libraries | Slides
29 September 2003
Theresa Mudrock | mudrock@u.washington.edu
