The Third Reich: The Essential Readings

ISBN-13: 9780631207009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str.

Christian Leitz

Opis

This book presents a unique collection of some of the most influential recent writing on vital aspects of Nazi Germany.

Recenzje

"The essays are of high quality, written by respected authors, and some are classics." ( Times Higher Education Supplement)

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.

Glossary.

General Introduction.

1. Rise of the NSDAP.

2. Seizure and Consolidation of Power.

3. Foreign Policy.

4. Economy.

5. Army.

6. Working Class and Volksgemeinschaft (National Community).

7. Police State.

8. Women.

9. Hitler as Dictator.

10. Resistance.

11. Holocaust/Final Solution.

Index.

O autorze

Christian Leitz is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland. He has previously taught at the University of the West of England, Bristol and was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of Economic Relations between Nazi Germany and Franco′s Spain, 1936–1945 (1996) and Nazi Germany and Neutral Policy 1941–45 (forthcoming) and Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–41 (forthcoming).

Blurb

This book is a collection of some of the most influential recent writing on vital aspects of Nazi Germany. It provides readers with an insight into new perspectives on traditional understandings of the Third Reich as well as covering all the central aspects of the period, from the rise of the Nazis and the internal organization of the regime, to Germany′s role in the Second World War.

The readings incorporate discussion of social and economic change, the personality of Hitler, the role of women in Nazi Germany, the involvement of German armed forces in the atrocities of the Second World War, the relationship between the German people and the Gestapo and, most controversially, continuing debates about German public opinion and the Holocaust. A key feature is the inclusion of three seminal articles by German historians translated into English here for the first time. The volume begins with a substantial editorial introduction to current issues and each essay is prefaced with a headnote, setting it in its historiographical context.