Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

by StackelbergRoderick (Author)

Synopsis

Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth and twentieth century German history. Roderick Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness.

This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field. It includes:

  • an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany
  • an extended analysis of fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism and ideology
  • a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism
  • discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics
  • new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture, the arts, education and religion
  • additional maps, tables and a chronology
  • a fully updated bibliography.

Exploring the controversies surrounding Nazism and its afterlife in historiography and historical memory Hitler's Germany provides students with an interpretive framework for understanding this extraordinary episode in German and European history.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Apr 1999

ISBN 10: 0415201152
ISBN 13: 9780415201155

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Stackelberg's engrossing narrative history deserves a wide readership. . . Stackelberg cogently argues that Nazi rule was generally maintained by popular consensus rather than by coercion. . . Combining dispassionate analysis with dramatic writing, he provides historical context for Third Reich barbarism by boldly delineating a pre-history of Nazism . . . Stackelberg ably covers the Nuremberg trials, German denazification and the contemporary resurgence of militant neo-Nazi fringe groups. . . . gives readers a superb historical synthesis.