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Short Oxford History of Germany
Nazi Germany
The history of National Socialism as a movement and a regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe. Featuring ten chapters by leading international experts, this volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history of Nazi Germany.
Opening with an introduction delineating the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, Nazi Germany continues on with chapters that explain how Nazism emerged as an ideology and a 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." Later 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. The volume concludes with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.
Opening with an introduction delineating the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, Nazi Germany continues on with chapters that explain how Nazism emerged as an ideology and a 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." Later 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. The volume concludes with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.
326 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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February 15, 2021Overall I was surprised reading this 2008 volume of essays how little had changed in terms of the big ideas and concepts since I had studied this subject in school, I suppose more or less twenty years before this was published, This would not have been true I think twenty years before or twenty years before that. The study of Nazi Germany, on the basis of this volume at least has calmed down, the pace of change has dropped off, there are no big theoretical differences between the author's here, just a few same nuances of interpretation to distinguish them, they broadly accept a view of the Third Reich as poly-centric, with the relation between those centres as dynamic and competitive with different Nazis struggling to build up power bases, while at the same time there was a dialectic between the leadership and supporters which meant that occasionally a leader had to intervene to cool down over enthusiastic policy initiatives. None here go as far as Hans Mommsen in seeing Hitler as weak dictator, they all prefer to work within Kershaw's conception of the Party, and the bureaucracy, as 'working towards the Fuehrer', which one could see as nuanced Mommsenism rather than a completely new idea. On the other hand this is entirely a work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship - all the authors are active in the English speaking academic world, while the big ideas and debates over the nature of the Third Reich mostly I believe came of Germany in the 1960s and 70s.
Not a good book for the reader who has never read anything about the Third Reich, but not a bad second or third book - particularly if you have read an older book from the 60s or 70s (or before!) in which case this may offer you some different perspectives. On the other hand if you read something recent like Ian Kershaw's books then I guess you'll find little new or striking here.
Bonus points for the obese SA men on the front cover.
Introduction
The Emergence of Nazi Ideology
The NSDAP 1919-1934: from fringe politics to the seizure of power
Hitler and the Nazi State: leadership, hierarchy, and power
Inclusion: building the national community in propaganda and practise
The policy of exclusion: repression in the Nazi state, 1933-1939
Religion and the Churches
The economic history of the Nazi regime
Foreign policy in peace and war
Occupation, imperialism, and genocide, 1939-1945
The Third Reich in post-war German memory
Not a good book for the reader who has never read anything about the Third Reich, but not a bad second or third book - particularly if you have read an older book from the 60s or 70s (or before!) in which case this may offer you some different perspectives. On the other hand if you read something recent like Ian Kershaw's books then I guess you'll find little new or striking here.
Bonus points for the obese SA men on the front cover.
Introduction
The Emergence of Nazi Ideology
The NSDAP 1919-1934: from fringe politics to the seizure of power
Hitler and the Nazi State: leadership, hierarchy, and power
Inclusion: building the national community in propaganda and practise
The policy of exclusion: repression in the Nazi state, 1933-1939
Religion and the Churches
The economic history of the Nazi regime
Foreign policy in peace and war
Occupation, imperialism, and genocide, 1939-1945
The Third Reich in post-war German memory
December 31, 2020
İçerik olarak güzel bir kitap olsa da, çok ağır bir dil ve kelime hazinesine sahip. Bu çeviriden mi kitabın orijinalinden mi kaynaklanıyor bilmiyorum.
June 15, 2024
Miss, was Hitler the king?🙃
October 21, 2020
Especially I interested in this term and read lots of books as soon as possible. I can say, this book is one of the most explain and describe books in 933 to 945. Absolutely I recommended this book. It has fluent and very exited, you can finish faster.
February 5, 2018
It was little bit hard for me but such a great book for beginners. While you are reading that you need a dictionary...
November 18, 2020
Çok beğendiğim bir kitap oldu.Nazi Almayasinda yaşanan sosyopolitik l,ekonomik, uzmanlarin görüşleri ve arastirmalari döneme taniklik eder cinsinden.Meraklilarina önerilir...
August 10, 2021
Nazi Almanyası üzerine yazılmış farklı makalelerden oluşmakta kitap. Bu dönem her yönüyle detaylı olarak incelenmiş ve bu zamana kadar bu dönemle ilgili okuduğum en iyi kitap diyebilirim.
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