Nazi Germany - Confronting the Myths

"Provides an up-to-date historical synthesis based on the latest research in the field"--

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Epstein, Ca Epstein, Catherine Epstein, Catherine A Epstein, Catherine A. Epstein, Catherine A. (Amherst College Epstein
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9781118294789
• ISBN: 978-1-118-29478-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Short Histories; Wiley Short Histories; Wiley Blackwell Short Historie; Wiley Short Histories; Wiley Blackwell Short Historie; Wiley Blackwell Short Histories
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries