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Nazi ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and culminated in the Second World War and the Holocaust. In this book, Gellately addresses often-debated questions about how the Führer discovered the ideology and why millions adopted aspects of National Socialism without having laid eyes on the "leader" or reading his work.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: How Hitler Found National Socialist Ideas
- Chapter 2: Early Leaders' Paths to National Socialism
- Chapter 3: The National Socialist "Left"
- Chapter 4: The Militants
- Chapter 5: The Nazi Voters
- Chapter 6: National Socialism Gains Power
- Chapter 7: Embracing the Volksgemeinschaft
- Chapter 8: Striving for Unanimity
- Chapter 9: Quest for a Cultural Revolution
- Chapter 10: The Racist Ideology
- Chapter 11: Nationalism and Militarism
- Chapter 12: War and Genocide
- Conclusion
About the author
Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, The Politics of Economic Despair: Shopkeepers and German Politics, and Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe.
Summary
Nazi ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and culminated in the Second World War and the Holocaust. In this book, Gellately addresses often-debated questions about how the Führer discovered the ideology and why millions adopted aspects of National Socialism without having laid eyes on the "leader" or reading his work.
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Thanks to Gellately's engaging storytelling, this book would serve as an excellent survey for undergraduates of how a fascist movement could generate sufficient legitimacy both for domestic policy changes and for a global war of destruction.
