Why people recommend it
William L. Shirer's comprehensive historical work, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, chronicles the ascent and collapse of Nazi Germany. Lex Fridman recommended the book on multiple episodes of the Lex Fridman Podcast, praising Shirer as an objective journalist who witnessed the events firsthand, and noted that he had re-read the massive volume to understand how intelligent people could participate in atrocities. Fridman also referenced the text while discussing Winston Churchill. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Lex Fridman stated that the book inspired him to create a solo episode about Hitler, describing it as an essential, massive volume that details Hitler's rise to power. Ben Shapiro discussed the book on the Lex Fridman Podcast, observing that it describes Hitler with remarkably little criticism, which makes it easier to process for a historical figure. Additionally, the hosts of My First Million mentioned reading the epic, roughly fourteen-hundred-page text, describing it as a seminal piece of literature on Hitler and Nazism.
Who recommended it
- Joe Rogan Recommended
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“he inspired me to try to do a solo thing like an episode on um on hitler on the rise and fall of the third reich so i've i read a book called the rise and fall of the third reich is this huge volume I recommend people read it It tells the story of how hitler came to power”
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“As an example, I admire William Shirer, the author of many books on Hitler, including "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." He was there and lived through it and covered it objectively to the degree that one could.”
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“The way The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is written about Hitler is appealing because there's almost no criticism of him. It's a description of Hitler, which is easier to do for a historical figure.”
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“and then I just got done reading the rise of the Third Reich which is like which is like a 1500 or 1300 word like epic”
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“and the reason I'm thinking about that is I just finished this like Epic book It's like 1400 pages long It's called the uh what is it called the I think it's the rise and fall of the Third Reich Have you heard of that yeah so it's kind of one of the seminal texts on Hitler and Nazism”
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“One of the things I've recently re-read for the second time is 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', which I think is the best telling of the rise and fall of Hitler.”
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“Personally, I have read and reread William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, who's another journalist who was there.”
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“Nevertheless, Winston Churchill is somebody, I mean, just reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is an incredible figure to me.”
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“Dan Carlin inspired my passion for history, igniting an obsession that has led me to read dense historical texts like 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.'”
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“What do you think about the 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' book?”
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“especially when i listen to certain kinds of audiobooks like i've listened to the rise and fall of the third reich i've listened to a lot of sort of world war ii which at once because i have a lot of family who's lost in world war ii and so so much of the soviet union is grounded in the”
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“and after that i also got into um audiobooks um oh i listened to the entire um the rise and fall of the third reich the whole thing 45 hours that that was fascinating”
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“so this one um if you need a one volume rise and fall the third reich I think you talked about that william shire”
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“yeah i've been reading as i don't shut up about the the rise and fall of the third reich and you know there there's economic effects uh that uh take a decade to you know there's going to be long lasting effects that may uh may be destructive to the very fabric of this nation”
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“I love yeah the reading I'm reading it's so long it's been taking me forever the the rise and Falls the Third Reich”
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“okay i've uh i've recently almost done with the rise in the fall of the third reich it's one of the historical descriptions of hitler's rise to power nazis rise to power”
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“I'm one of the big problems for me right now is I'm reading the rise and fall of the Third Reich Light reading so it's everything is just I just see parallels and every I mean it's it's you have to be really careful not to overstep it but just the the thing that worries me the most is the”
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“yeah i've been reading the the rise and fall of the third reich”
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“for sure when I start reading the rise and fall of the third reich and start thinking about nazi germany I can empathize with everybody involved”
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“i've been reading uh the rise and fall of the third reich”
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“I've been reading the rise and fall of the third reich Great book I recommend it highly It talks about the 30s and the rise of hitler in germany And the pain both economic and psychological turns into this like dark energy that can be combined with a charismatic leader to go into a direction of hatred versus love and”
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“i'm reading the rise and fall of the third reich Oh my god So i'm like really steeped into like world war ii and stalin and hitler and just these dramatic personalities that brought so much evil to the world”
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“and how i mentioned to you off camera that i've been reading uh the the rise and fall of the third reich”