The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, and one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe alone. This volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction
to the history of Nazi Germany, with ten chapters on the most important themes, each by an expert in the field.
Following an introduction which sets out the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, contributors explain how Nazism emerged as ideology and
political movement; how Hitler and his party took power and remade the German state; and how the Nazi 'national community' was organized around a radical and eventually lethal distinction between the 'included' and the 'excluded'. Further chapters discuss the complex relationship between Nazism and
Germany's religious faiths; the perverse economic rationality of the regime; the path to war laid down by Hitler's foreign policy; and the intricate and intimate intertwining of war and genocide, with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.
Jane Caplan: Introduction
1. Richard J. Evans: The Emergence of Nazi Ideology
2. Peter Fritzsche: The NSDAP, 1919-34: From Fringe Politics to the Seizure of Power
3. Jeremy Noakes: Hitler and the Nazi State: Leadership, Hierarchy, and Power
4. Jill Stephenson: Inclusion: Building
the National Community in Propaganda and Practice
5. Nikolaus Wachsmann: The Policy of Exclusion: Repression in the Nazi State, 1933-9
6. Richard Steigmann-Gall: Religion and the Churches
7. Adam Tooze: The Economic History of the Nazi Regime
8. Gerhard L. Weinberg: Foreign Policy in
Peace and War
9. Doris L. Bergen: Occupation, Imperialism and Genocide, 1939-45
10. Robert G. Moeller: The Third Reich in Postwar German Memory
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
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Jane Caplan is a Professor of Modern European History and a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. She has worked mainly on the history of Nazi Germany. Her current research interests include the history of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, and the documentation of individual identity in
19th-century Europe, especially the written and visual marks of identity on and of the body. She is executive editor of New German Historical Perspectives, and a member of the editorial board of History Workshop Journal.
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