A companion to Nazi Germany /

"A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of poli...

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Other Authors: Baranowski, Shelley (Editor), Nolzen, Armin (Editor), Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W., 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2018
New York : 2018
Edition:1st edition
Series:Wiley Blackwell companions to world history
Wiley Blackwell companions to world history
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Theories, background, and contexts: How do we explain the rise of Nazism?: theory and historiography; Organic modernity: National Socialism as alternative modernism; The First World War and National Socialism; The collapse of the Weimar parliamentary system; National Socialist ideology
  • Structures of Nazi rule: The NSDAP after 1933: members, positions, technologies, interactions; Work(ers) under the Swastika; Resistance; Centre and periphery; Information policies and linguistic violence; Education, schooling, and camps; Research and scholarship; Nazi morality; The German home front under the bombs; Total defeat: war, society, and violence in the last year of National Socialism
  • Economy and culture: The Nazi economy; National Socialism and German business; Individual consumers and consumption in Nazi Germany; Gender; Religion; Family and private life; Sports; Cinema, art, and music; Emotions and National Socialism; Environment
  • Race, imperialism, and genocide: Terror; Flight and exile; Germany and the outside world; Social militarization and preparation for war, 1933 / 1939; Race; Unfree and forced labour; 'Ethnic Germans'; Ghettos; Holocaust studies: the spatial turn
  • Legacies of Nazism: Memories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany; Remembering National Socialism in the German Democratic Republic; Presenting and teaching the past