Democracies Against Hitler

Myth, Reality and Prologue

Alexander J. Groth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

365 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-31361-3 (ISBN)

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First published in 1999, what the confrontation between democracies and Hitlerism tells us about democracy is the subject of this book. It examines the response of political democracies to the phenomenon of Hitlerism, beginning with democracy in Germany itself in the ’20’s and ’30’s, and ending up with Britain and the U.S. in the ’40’s. Contrary to mythology, this response was far more a failure than a success. An iconoclastic treatment, it anticipates the crises of the future..

Alexander J. Groth is a Holocaust survivor, most of whose family perished during the Nazi Final Solution. He received his PhD from Columbia University and his BA magna cum laude from the City College of New York. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, where he has taught since 1962, specializing in comparative politics. Groth is the author and editor of numerous books including Comparative Politics (1971); People's Poland (1972); Public Policy Across Nations (1985); Lincoln (1996); Democracies Against Hitler (1999); and Holocaust Voices (2003).

1. Hitler and the Democratic Myth. 2. Hitler Against Weimar Democracy: The Conquest of Power. 3. Hitler Against World Democracies: Preparing For The Kill. 4. Democracies in Defeat: Hitler Ascendant, 1939 – 1941. 5. Hitler and American Democracy. 6. Hitler’s War in the East. 7. Democracies and the Final Solution. 8. Democracies at War, 1942 – 1944. 9. Democracies at War, 1944 – 1945. 10. Conclusion and Prologue

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 219 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-31361-0 / 1138313610
ISBN-13	978-1-138-31361-3 / 9781138313613
Zustand	Neuware