Nazi Germany

Confronting the Myths
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-29479-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Short Histories

Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler and Nazi Germany.
* Creates a succinct, argument-driven overview for students by using common myths and stereotypes to encourage critical engagement with the subject
* Provides an up-to-date historical synthesis based on the latest research in the field
* Argues that in order to fully understand and explain this period of history, we need to address its seeming paradoxes - for example, questioning why most Germans viewed the Third Reich as a legitimate government, despite the Nazis' criminality
* Incorporates useful study features, including a timeline, glossary, maps, and illustrations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Epstein, Catherine A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii

Preface x

1 Germany before 1933 1

2 Hitler and the Nazi Movement 21

3 The Nazi Party-State 45

4 The Racial State 69

5 Nazi Germany in the 1930s: A Popular Regime? 97

6 War and Occupation, 1939-1941 123

7 Genocide 149

8 Total War, 1942-1945 179

Epilogue 211

Abbreviations and Glossary 223

Timeline 225

Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Epstein is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History at Amherst College. She is the prize-winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010). Her previous publications also include A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993) and The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and their Century (2003).