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A concise history of Nazi Germany, 1919-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2014]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
National socialism.
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928
  • Weimar democracy in crisis
  • The rise of Hitler and Nazism
  • The historical roots of Nazi ideology
  • Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle"
  • The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934
  • Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930
  • Hitler's legal path to power
  • The pseudolegal revolution
  • The nazification of German society, 1934-1938
  • The total state versus the dual state and polycracy
  • Political biology, culture, and society
  • SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification
  • The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945
  • The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy
  • The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest
  • From domination to retreat
  • The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat
  • The struggle for justice and historical memory
  • From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung
  • The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.