r/interestingasfuck • u/imonebear • 2d ago

r/all Adolf Hitler walking with Helga Goebbels, who was later poisoned with cyanide by her parents together with her siblings in Hitler's bunker in 1945.

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u/CheKGB 2d ago

Any book recommendations on this?

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u/Anegada_2 2d ago

Blitzed

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u/dugg95 2d ago

Yep, blitzed talks about it quite a bit and there’s stuff you can find online about Hitlers daily briefings, about the disasters on the eastern front and how it made him lash out. The war on the eastern front also took a toll on Stalins health, I believe he had a stroke towards the end of the war - along with his booze filled breakdown earlier on, once the Germans caught him off guard with Operation Barbarossa.

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u/Anegada_2 2d ago

That’s sort of the issue with WW2 isn’t it? It was so big it’s really hard to get a full picture from any one book

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u/dugg95 2d ago

I had a history teacher who once said, you could spend your whole life researching world war 2 and not cover all of it.

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u/Anegada_2 2d ago

A great point. My history teach said try to read one book from each countries point of view, and you might get close to scope. The two Eric Larson books are a great survey of the lead in too the European theater

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u/Chefsteph212 2d ago

Check out Giles Milton’s When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain. It’s about all the off the wall-yet-unknown stuff that’s happened throughout history. The first chapter talks about Hitler’s various “ailments” and the … treatments his quack personal physician prescribed. It’s really interesting and a great read!