People''s Dictatorship - A History of Nazi Germany

An up-to-date, succinct and highly readable survey of a compelling subject, making accessible classic and recent research on Nazi Germany.

List of contents

1. The Idea of Nazism; 2. The Triumph of Nazism; 3. The Nazi Dictatorship; 4. The Nazi Economy, 1933-1939; 5. Nazi Society, 1933-1939; 6. Policing the Boundaries of the 'People's Community'; 7. A New Order in Europe; 8. The Nazi Empire; 9. The War of Annihilation; 10. The Destruction of Nazi Germany.

About the author

Alan E. Steinweis is Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont. He is the author of three previous books about Nazi Germany: Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (1993); Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (2006); and Kristallnacht 1938 (2009). He has been a visiting fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the University of Oxford and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Hannover, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Munich, and Augsburg.

Summary

This up-to-date, succinct, and highly readable survey presents a new synthesis of the origins, development, and downfall of Nazi Germany, making accessible classic and recent research and focusing on the interplay of Nazi violence and the readiness of Germans to accommodate themselves to the new regime.

Product details

• Authors: Alan E Steinweis, Alan E. Steinweis, Alan E. (University of Vermont) Steinweis, Steinweis Alan E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781107652842
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65284-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General