HIST 323: Germany Since 1945

Use Knox Primo to discover books that may be available for loan from another I-Share library.

As a Knox student, you are free to borrow materials from any of the other 94 I-Share libraries whenever you want. See this guide for detailed information on using I-Share to request books.

"H-German is a daily Internet discussion forum focused on scholarly topics in German history. The primary purpose for H-German is to enable scholars in history and related disciplines to easily communicate current, research and research interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; and to explore these issues as they relate to the teaching of German history." 

Browsing the shelves can be an efficient and effective way to find materials. Browse the shelves to:

• quickly locate most relevant books on a topic (because books in a subject area are shelved together)
• find find topic ideas; explore potential topics
• quickly find out how much material is in the library on a given topic
• find chapters about your topic (by looking at the table of contents and index in the back of the book)

Books are arranged in Seymour Library according to subject. Appropriate call number ranges for topics in the history of Nazi Germany are:

D 1050 though D 2026 -- Europe

DD 226 -- Germany, World War II

DD 257 -- period of Allied occupation

DD 258 through DD 262 -- West Germany

DD 280 through DD 289 -- East Germany

Note: You may also find relevant material in the political science section (J's or JC's) if your topic aligns more with political theory than with history or in the economics section (H's, HC's etc.) if your topic deals more with economics issues.

WorldCat is a collection of the catalog records from about 20,000 libraries worldwide. Use WorldCat to find books that are not in Seymour Library or to find books that are not available via the I-Share Catalog.

Search Tips

• Search for exact phrases using quotation marks:  "west germany"
• Narrow a search using the AND Boolean operator:  terrorism and germany
• Truncation to retrieve keywords with variant endings might be useful:  german* and terroris* (But, often, it results in too many irrelevant hits, so choose your terms wisely.)
• Try to find one or two good subject headings to search on. If you get one relevant record, look at the subject headings and search again on the relevant heading(s); you can do this by clicking on the subject heading itself.

Note:As with any library catalog, you will see search results lists with a mix of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, audio-visual material, and archival material. It is usually the case that only books and, in some cases, audio-visual material will be loaned from WorldCat libraries. For WorldCat records it is easy to discern what type of material the item is, as in this example record showing archival material: