Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths

ISBN-13: 9781118294789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 252 str.

Catherine A Epstein

Opis

Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler and Nazi Germany.

• Creates a succinct, argument-driven overview for students by using common myths and stereotypes to encourage critical engagement with the subject
• Provides an up-to-date historical synthesis based on the latest research in the field
• Argues that in order to fully understand and explain this period of history, we need to address its seeming paradoxes - for example, questioning why most Germans viewed the Third Reich as a legitimate government, despite the Nazis' criminality
• Incorporates useful study features, including a timeline, glossary, maps, and illustrations

Spis treści

List of Illustrations viii

Preface x

1 Germany before 1933 1

2 Hitler and the Nazi Movement 21

3 The Nazi Party–State 45

4 The Racial State 69

5 Nazi Germany in the 1930s: A Popular Regime? 97

6 War and Occupation, 1939 1941 123

7 Genocide 149

8 Total War, 1942 1945 179

Epilogue 211

Abbreviations and Glossary 223

Timeline 225

Index 229

O autorze

Catherine Epstein is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History at Amherst College.  She is the prize–winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010).  Her previous publications also include A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German–Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993) and The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and their Century (2003).

Blurb

Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths offers a succinct, compelling overview of the history of the Third Reich. Drawing on the most recent research in the field, Epstein provides a broad ranging and up–to–date historical synthesis of Hitler s Germany and historiographical debates concerning the Nazi regime. The book is structured around myths and stereotypes that dominate popular understanding of this era of German history. By analysing and debunking those views, the author provides an argument–driven approach to the study of the Third Reich, encouraging critical engagement with the period.