Editing Konrad Adenauer (section)

== Further reading ==
* Bark, Dennis L., and David R. Gress. ''A History of West Germany. Vol. 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963. Vol. 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 1963–1991'' (1993), a standard scholarly history.
* Bozo, Frédéric, and Christian Wenkel, eds. ''France and the German Question, 1945–1990'' (Berghahn, 2019)
* Brady, Steven J''. Eisenhower and Adenauer: Alliance maintenance under pressure, 1953–1960'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
* Craig, Gordon. ''From Bismarck to Adenauer: aspects of German statecraft'' (1958) pp 124–148 [https://archive.org/details/frombismarcktoad00crai online].
* Craig, Gordon A. "Konrad Adenauer and His Diplomats." in ''The Diplomats, 1939–1979'' (Princeton University Press, 2019) pp.&nbsp;201–227. [https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8pz9nc.12 online]
* Cudlipp, E. ''Adenauer'' (1985) [https://archive.org/details/konradadenauer0000cudl online]. for middle schools.
* Daugherty III, Leo J. "'Tip of the Spear': The Formation and Expansion of the Bundeswehr, 1949–1963." ''Journal of Slavic Military Studies'' 24.1 (2011): 147–177.
* Dönhoff, Marion. ''Foe into friend: the makers of the new Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt'' (1982) [https://archive.org/details/foeintofriendmak0000dnho online]
* Dülffer, Jost. "'No more Potsdam!' Konrad Adenauer's Nightmare and the Basis of his International Orientation." ''German Politics and Society'' 25.2 (2007): 19–42.
* Feldman, Lily Gardner. ''Germany's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity'' (Rowman & Littlefield; 2012) 393 pages; on German relations with France, Israel, Poland, and Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0742526127/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305220403/https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0742526127/ |date=5 March 2023 }}
* Grundy, Steven Crawford. "The Sino-Soviet Alliance in Konrad Adenauer's Chancellorship, 1945–1963." ''Diplomatic History'' 47.1 (2023): 139–160.
* Hanrieder, Wolfram F. ''Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy'' (1989)
* Hanrieder, Wolfram F. ''West German Foreign Policy, 1949–1979'' (Routledge, 2019)
* Heidenheimer, Arnold J. ''Adenauer and the CDU: the Rise of the Leader and the Integration of the Party'' (1960)
* Hiscocks, Richard. ''The Adenauer Era'' (1966) [https://archive.org/details/adenauerera00hiscrich online]
* Ivanova, Teodora. "A Founding Father of Europe: Konrad Adenauer's Role in the Construction of the European Union." ''Amsterdam Review of European Affairs'' 1 (2022): 119–26. [https://www.europeanhorizonsamsterdam.org/_files/ugd/79a695_dbd76026a17f488ea00cae358bfebe8d.pdf#page=124 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728044149/https://www.europeanhorizonsamsterdam.org/_files/ugd/79a695_dbd76026a17f488ea00cae358bfebe8d.pdf#page=124 |date=28 July 2023 }}
* Kleuters, Joost. "Adenauer's Long Shadow." in ''Reunification in West German Party Politics from Westbindung to Ostpolitik'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) pp.&nbsp;107–122.
* Maulucci Jr., Thomas W. ''Adenauer's Foreign Office: West German Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich'' (2012) [https://www.amazon.com/Adenauers-Foreign-Office-German-Diplomacy/dp/0875804632/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922035309/https://www.amazon.com/Adenauers-Foreign-Office-German-Diplomacy/dp/0875804632 |date=22 September 2022 }}
* Merk, Dorothea, and Rüdiger Ahrens. "'Suspicious Federal Chancellor' Versus 'Weak Prime Minister': Konrad Adenauer and Harold Macmillan in the British and West German Quality Press during the Berlin Crisis (1958 to 1962). A Critical Discourse Analysis." in ''Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders'' (2016) pp 101–116 [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katerina-Strani-2/publication/325536705_Diversity_in_a_European_context_the_Challenge_of_Creating_a_Shared_Critical_Vocabulary/links/5b133e6a4585150a0a64291d/Diversity-in-a-European-context-the-Challenge-of-Creating-a-Shared-Critical-Vocabulary.pdf#page=102 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728100356/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katerina-Strani-2/publication/325536705_Diversity_in_a_European_context_the_Challenge_of_Creating_a_Shared_Critical_Vocabulary/links/5b133e6a4585150a0a64291d/Diversity-in-a-European-context-the-Challenge-of-Creating-a-Shared-Critical-Vocabulary.pdf#page=102 |date=28 July 2023 }}
* Merkl, Peter H. (1962). "[[doi:10.2307/1952496|Equilibrium, Structure of Interests and Leadership: Adenauer's Survival as Chancellor]]". ''American Political Science Review''. '''56''' (3): 634–650.
* Rovan, Joseph. ''Konrad Adenauer'' (1987) 182 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=3dHtW4yojJIC&q=intitle:Konrad+intitle:Adenauer excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708120205/https://books.google.com/books?id=3dHtW4yojJIC&q=intitle:Konrad+intitle:Adenauer |date=8 July 2023 }}
* Schwarz, Hans-Peter. "Adenauer's Ostpolitik." in ''West German Foreign Policy: 1949–1979'' (Routledge, 2020) pp.&nbsp;127–143.
* Schoenborn, Benedikt. "Bargaining with the bear: Chancellor Erhard's bid to buy German reunification, 1963–64." ''Cold War History'' 8.1 (2008): 23–53. [https://www.academia.edu/download/54108366/Schoenborn_Bargaining_with_the_Bear.pdf online]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
* Schoenborn, Benedikt. "Chancellor Erhard's silent rejection of de Gaulle's plans: the example of monetary union." ''Cold War History'' 14.3 (2014): 377–402 [https://www.academia.edu/download/54108275/Schoenborn_monetary_union_Erhard_de_Gaulle.pdf online]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
* Witzthum, David. "David Ben-Gurion and Konrad Adenauer: Building a Bridge across the Abyss." ''Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs'' 13.2 (2019): 223–237.

=== Primary sources ===
* Adenauer, Konrad. ''Memoirs'', (4 vols. English edition 1966–70)
* McGhee, George C. ''At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt. An Ambassador's Account'' (1989) [https://archive.org/details/atcreationofnewg00mcgh online]
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Kreikamp |editor1-first=Hans-Dieter |title=Die Ära Adenauer 1949 – 1963 |date=2003 |publisher=wbg Academic |location=Darmstadt |isbn=978-3-534-12335-3 |language=de|ref=none}}