This is a good read

"they thought they were free' - the germans 1933-45, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 0-226-51192-8 is perhaps more far-sighted than most far-sighted books on the Germanic people. Milton Mayer's account of Nazism and the aftermath of the war is very compelling in its arguments. This book makes you understand not only WWII, but about all wars including the one in Iraq. How long will it take to change something which was there for time immemorial, something that is imprinted with indelible ink?