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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Louis Snyder, who grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and graduated from St. John's College there in 1928, was 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.

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  • 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.
  • Hitlers 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] Reference

  • 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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