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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viiiPreface x1 Germany before 1933 12 Hitler and the Nazi Movement 213 The Nazi Party-State 454 The Racial State 695 Nazi Germany in the 1930s: A Popular Regime? 976 War and Occupation, 1939-1941 1237 Genocide 1498 Total War, 1942-1945 179Epilogue 211Abbreviations and Glossary 223Timeline 225Index 229...
