This book examines the complex relationship between ordinary Germans and Hitler's government. It provides: key primary sources; a range of other source material, including images; integrated analysis of the significance of source material; thematic coverage of the major topics; examination of the responses of the workers, the churches, youth, conservative elites, and Jewish citizens; and an emphasis on popular reactions to Nazism.

This book examines the complex relationship between ordinary Germans and Hitler's government. It provides: key primary sources; a range of other source material, including images; integrated analysis of the significance of source material; thematic coverage of the major topics; examination of the responses of the workers, the churches, youth, conservative elites, and Jewish citizens; and an emphasis on popular reactions to Nazism.

Adolf Hitler is perceived to be the most evil political leader of twentieth century Europe. Hitler draws on his background and involvement in the rise of National Socialism, the government of the Third Reich, leadership of the Second World War in Germany and his psychology to discuss Hitler's credentials as a revolutionary.
This volume includes examination of:
* the general characteristics of revolutions and revolutionaries
* Hitler as Agitator, Dictator, Deceiver and Warlord
* Hitler's architectural and artistic ambitions
* Hitler's mind and personality.
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This is the first attempt to redress the injustice done to the memory of German minorities by the popular equation of 'Lebensraum' and Nazism; minorities, many of whom chose to be neighbours rather than enemies and who over time peacefully shared with other nationalities the territorial space east of the Reich. Their borderland experiences, particularly in the Baltic region, the historic interface between East and West, are all the more relevant as Hitler's regime recedes into the past and Europe seeks to renew itself in the wake of the Cold War.

The conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire. It reveals the different kinds of genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and explores the way in which the Fuhrer's minions had to compete for a place in his apocalyptic system."

The years from 1918 to 1945 remain central to European History. It was a breath-taking time during which the very best and very worst attributes of Mankind were on display. In the euphoria of peace which followed the end of the First World War, the Baltic States emerged as independent forces on the world stage, participating in thrilling experiments in national and transnational governance. Later, following economic collapse and in the face of rising totalitarianism among even Europe's most cultured nations, Baltic communities succumbed to nationalism too. During wartime, Baltic peoples...

This volume includes: examination of the general characteristics of revolutions and revolutionaries; Hitler as agitator, dictator, deceiver and warlord; Hitler's architectural and artistic ambitions; and Hitler's mind and personality.

What form should Europe take? Should it be based on 'nation states' or 'states of nations'? On what basis should European unification proceed? Should it be an elite undertaking pioneered by statesmen elected to democratic government offices, or should true unification also demand a significant European cultural forum open to spokesmen and -women representing the continent's nationality groups? Was the League of Nations really such a thing? Or was it a League of States? All these questions were posed by Ewald Ammende and his fellow minority associates during the 1920s. Coming to terms with the...