The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality - New Perspectives on German History 1918-1945

Professor Hans Mommsen, one of the world''s leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, has gathered together a group of historians who are engaged in pioneering research into national socialism. This book covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler''s career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of popular support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and political developments which culminated in the mass murder of European Jews. It makes accessible to a wider public controversial arguments which have resulted from recent reassessments of Hitler''s movement and his Nazi regime.>

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• Authors: Hans Mommsen
• Assisted by: Hans Mommsen (Editor), Mommsen Hans (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9781859732540
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-254-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Series: German Historical Perspectives; German Historical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Deutschland, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General