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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.

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.

Miscellanea

• 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.

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, 1961.
• 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.

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.

See also

• List of Adolf Hitler books