Henry Ashby Turner is a American historian of Germany. He is best known for rebutting the Marxist claim that it was German Big Business who financed the Nazis to power. Turner has shown that the extent of business support for the Nazis has been much exaggerated. Turner is opposed to the Sonderweg view of German history that sees Nazism as the inevitable result of how German history developed. In Turner's view, Nazism was a possible, but not means inevitable outcome of German history.

Work

• Stresemann and the politics of the Weimar Republic, Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1963.
• The government and politics of California, New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, 1971.
• Reappraisals of fascism, New York : New Viewpoints, edited by H.A Turner, 1975.
• Hitler aus nächster Nähe : Aufzeichn. e. Vertrauten ; 1929-1932, Frankfurt/M ; Berlin ; Wien : Ullstein, 1978.
• German big business and the rise of Hitler, New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
• Hitler--memoirs of a confidant, edited by H.A Turner New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985.
• The two Germanies since 1945, New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987.
• Germany from partition to reunification, New Haven : Yale University Press, 1992.
• Hitler's thirty days to power : January 1933, Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996.