Louis Leo Snyder

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Louis Leo Snyder (1907-1993) was an American-born German scholar who witnessed the Nazi mass meetings and wrote about them in Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany. He successfully predicted Adolf Hitler's rise to power, alliance with Mussolini, and war upon the French and the Jews.

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[edit] Bio

Louis Snyder was a native of Annapolis, Maryland, and graduated from that city's St. John's College in 1928. He became a German-American Exchange Fellow in 1928 at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He was also an Alexander von Humbolt-Stiftung Foundation Fellow in 1929-1930. He then became a Professor of History at City College of New York.

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  • Prof. Snyder is the only author to date that had the complete National Socialist Program in his book, Hitler and Nazism.
  • Prof. Snyder published his predictions regarding Hitler's rise to power in 1932 under the pseudonym, Nordicus.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Hitlerism, the Iron Fist in Germany, 1932 (under the pseudonym, Nordicus).
  • From Bismarck to Hitler; the background of modern German nationalism, Williamsport, Pa., The Bayard Press 1935.
  • Handbook of Civilian Protection edited by Louis L. Snyder Under the Supervision of Richard B. Morris and Joseph E. Wisan with a Foreword by Augustin M. Prentiss and an Introd. by Guy E. Snavely, New York, Mcgraw-Hill 1942.
  • A treasury of great reporting; "literature under pressure" from the sixteenth century to our own time, edited by Louis L. Snyder and Richard B. Morris ... with apref. by Herbert Bayard Swope, New York : Simon and Schuster, 1949.
  • German nationalism: the tragedy of a people; extremism contra liberalism in modern German history, Harrisburg, Pa., Stackpole Co. 1952.
  • The meaning of nationalism, Westport, Conn.,Greenwood, 1954.
  • The age of reason, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1955.
  • Fifty major documents of the Twentieth century, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1955.
  • Fifty Major Documents of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1955.
  • The world in the twentieth century, New York : Van Nostrand, 1955.
  • Basic History of Modern Germany, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1957.
  • Documents of German History, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1958.
  • The First Book of World War II
  • The war: a concise history, 1939-1945, by Louis L. Snyder with a foreword by Eric Sevareid, New York, Simon and Schuster 1960.
  • Hitler and Nazism, publisher: Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, l961.
  • The idea of racialism: its meaning and history, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1962
  • The Imperialism Reader; Documents and Readings on Modern Expansionism, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1962.
  • The Weimar Republic : a history of Germany from Ebert to Hitler, New York ; Cincinnati ; London: Van Nostrand, 1966.
  • Bismarck and German unification by Louis L. Snyder and Ida Mae Brown, New York, F. Watts 1966.
  • The Blood and Iron Chancellor : a Documentary-Biography of Otto Von Bismarck, Princeton, N.J. ; Toronto : Van Nostrand, 1967
  • The new nationalism, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press 1968.
  • The Dreyfus case: a documentary history, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press 1973.
  • Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.
  • Varieties of nationalism : a comparative study, Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press, 1976.
  • Historic documents of World War I edited by L.L. Snyder Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977.
  • Roots of German Nationalism, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1978
  • Hitler's Third Reich : a documentary history, Chicago : Nelson-Hall, 1981.
  • Louis L. Snyder's Historical guide to World War II, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982.
  • Global mini-nationalisms : autonomy or independence, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982.
  • Macro-nationalisms : a history of the pan-movements, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
  • National Socialist Germany : twelve years that shook the world, Malabor, Florida: Krieger, 1984.
  • Diplomacy in iron : the life of Herbert von Bismarck, Malabar, Fla. : R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1985.
  • The Third Reich, 1933-1945 : a bibliographical guide to German national socialism, New York : Garland Pub., 1987.
  • Hitler's Elite : Biographical Sketches of Nazis who Shaped the Third Reich, New York : Hippocrene Books, 1989.
  • Encyclopedia of nationalism, New York : Paragon House, 1990.
  • Hitler's German enemies : portraits of heroes who fought the Nazis, New York : Berkley, 1992, 1990.
  • Contemporary nationalisms : persistence in case studies, Malabar, Fl. : Krieger Pub. Co., 1992.

[edit] References

  • Nationalism : essays in honor of Louis L. Snyder edited by Michael Palumbo and William O. Shanahan with a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1981.

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