Backing Hitler - Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

Zusatztext Backing Hitler is based on the first systematic analysis by a historian of surviving German newspaper and magazine archives since 1933! the year Hitler became chancellor. Informationen zum Autor Robert Gellately is Professor in Holocaust History at Clark University, Massacuhsetts, USA. A history of Nazism from 1933 x to 1945. Illus. Zusammenfassung Robert Gellately challenges the belief that the German people knew little about the Nazi terror, and the tendency of historians to distance ordinary Germans from its excesses. He reveals for the first time the social consensus behind the regime and the extent to which German men and women were involved in the persecution of social outsiders and 'race enemies'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Turning away from Weimar 2: Police Justice 3: Concentration Camps and Media Reports 4: Shadows of War 5: Social Outsiders 6: Injustice and the Jews 7: Special 'Justice' for Foreign Workers 8: Enemies in the Ranks 9: Concentration Camps in Public Spaces 10: Dictatorship and People at the End of the Third Reich Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gellately
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2002
• EAN: 9780192802910
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280291-0
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater