The people's dictatorship a history of Nazi Germany History of Nazi Germany Steinweis, Alan E. creator author. aut text bibliography enk 2023 2023 monographic eng print xiii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm In this up-to-date, succinct, and highly readable volume, Alan E. Steinweis presents a new synthesis of the origins, development, and downfall of Nazi Germany. After tracing the intellectual and cultural origins of Nazi ideology, the book recounts the rise and eventual victory of the Nazi movement against the background of the struggling Weimar Republic. The book details the rapid transformation of Germany into a dictatorship, focusing on the interplay of Nazi violence and the readiness of Germans to accommodate themselves to the new regime. Steinweis chronicles Nazi efforts to transform German society into a so-called People's Community, imbued with hyper-nationalism, an authoritarian spirit, Nazi racial doctrine, and antisemitism. The result was less a People's Community than what Steinweis calls a People's Dictatorship - a repressive regime that acted brutally toward the targets of its persecution, its internal opponents, and its foreign enemies even as it enjoyed support across much of German society. -- Introduction -- 1. The Idea of Nazism -- 2. The Triumph of Nazism -- 3. The Nazi Dictatorship -- 4. The Nazi Economy, 1933-1939 -- 5. Nazi Society, 1933-1939 -- 6. Policing the Boundaries of the People's Community -- 7. A New Order in Europe -- 8. The Nazi Empire -- 9. The War of Annihilation -- 10. The Destruction of Nazi Germany -- Conclusion. Alan E. Steinweis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index. e-gx--- Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 Germany Politics and government 1918-1933 Germany Politics and government 1933-1945 National socialism National socialism Politics and government Germany 1918-1945 fast DD240 .S7616 2023 943.085 New approaches to European history 9781107012363 1107012368 9781107652842 1107652847 9780511998140 9781009324960 2022029803 pda,print DLC 220627 20250318223628.3 in00004730140 eng