Hitler's Germany
Origins, Interpretations, Legacies
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-37331-9
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 5th August 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 416
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About the Book
Hitler’s Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history. Roderick Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness.
This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field. It includes
- an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany
- an extended analysis of fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, and ideology
- a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism
- discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics
- new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture, the arts, education and religion
- additional maps, tables, and a chronology
- a fully updated bibliography.
Exploring the controversies surrounding Nazism and its afterlife in historiography and historical memory, Hitler’s Germany provides students with an interpretive framework for understanding this extraordinary episode in German and European history.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition. Chronology. Introduction: the Problems of Writing About National Socialism 1. Fascism and the Conservative Tradition: Fascist Ideology, Constituency, and Conditions for its Growth 2. The Problem of German Unity: Absolutism and Particularism 3. The German Empire: the Containment of Democracy, Social Imperialism, and the Road to War 4. Germanic Ideology: Nationalism, Vulgarized Idealism, and Antisemitism 5. The First World War: the Crisis of Imperial Germany 6. The Weimar Republic and the Weakness of Liberal Democracy 7. The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis 8. The Nazi Consolidation of Power, 1933--1934 9. Economy, Society, and the State in the Third Reich 10. Education, Culture, Religion, and Eugenics in the Third Reich 11. Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1939 12. The Origins of the Second World War 13. The Second World War: From European to Global war, 1939--1941 14. The Second World War: From Triumph to Defeat, 1942--1945 15. The Holocaust 16. Continuities and New Beginnings: the Aftermath of National Socialism and War 17. The Historians` Debate: the Place of Hitler`s Reich in German History and Memory. Select Bibliography
About the Author(s)
Roderick Stackelberg is Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Gonzaga University. His publications include The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany (2007) and with Sally A. Winkle, The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (2002).