Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

ISBN-13: 9780300151275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 400 str.

Ian Kershaw

Opis

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections--Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography--and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism. Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.

O autorze

Dr.phil.Ian Kershaw, geb. 1943, studierte in Liverpool und Oxford. Er lehrte von 1968-89 an den Universitäten Manchester und Nottingham. Seit 1989 ist er Professor für neuere Geschichte und Direktor des historischen Institus der Universität Sheffield. Kershaws Forschungen über Hitler und das Dritte Reich führten ihn nach London, New York, Moskau und in viele Archive in Deutschland, Österreich und Frankreich. Er war Berater der ZDF-Serie 'Hitler, eine Bilanz' und der BBC-Dokumentarreihe 'The Nazis. Warning from history'. 1984 erhielt er das Bundesverdienstkreuz. 2012 wurde er mit dem Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung ausgezeichnet.