Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths

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John Wiley & Sons, Dec 22, 2014 - History - 256 pages
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
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Germany before 1933
1
Chapter 2 Hitler and the Nazi Movement
21
Chapter 3 The Nazi PartyState
45
Chapter 4 The Racial State
69
A Popular Regime?
97
Chapter 6 War and Occupation 19391941
123
Chapter 7 Genocide
149
Chapter 8 Total War 19421945
179
Epilogue
211
Abbreviations and Glossary
223
Timeline
225
Index
229
End User License Agreement
241
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About the author (2014)

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 The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993).

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