Nazi Germany
Confronting the Myths
Seiten
2015
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-29478-9 (ISBN)
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-29478-9 (ISBN)
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.
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
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
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 The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993).
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
| Reihe/Serie | Wiley Blackwell Short Histories |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 367 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Schlagworte | Drittes Reich • Nationalsozialismus |
| ISBN-10 | 1-118-29478-5 / 1118294785 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-29478-9 / 9781118294789 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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