Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History

by Spielvogel,Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780205695324
• ISBN10: 0205695329
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This brief yet comprehensive survey of the Third Reich, based on current research findings, provides a balanced approach in examining Hitler's role in the history of the Third Reich.Coverage encompasses the economic, social, and political forces that made possible the rise and growth of Nazism as well as the institutional, cultural, and social life of the Third Reich; the Second World War; and the Holocaust.For general readers who want a deeper understand of this period in German history.

Author Biography

Jackson Spielvogel is associate professor emeritus of history at The Pennsylvania State University.  He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Moreana, Journal of General Education, Catholic Historical Review, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte , and American Historical Review. He has also contributed chapters or articles to The Social History of the Reformation, The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies, and Utopian Studies. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation for study and research in Nürnberg, Germany, and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western civilization courses as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. He is the author of Western Civilization, published in 1991 (seventh edition, 2009). He is the coauthor (with William Duiker) of World History, first published in 1998 (sixth edition, 2010), and The Essential World History (third edition, 2008).

 

Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. He held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award in 1988-1989. In 1996 he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty Member and in 2000 the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award.

  

 

David Redles received his Ph.D. in history from Pennsylvania State University and is currently associate professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. He is author of Hitler’s Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation (hardcover: 2005, paperback: 2008). He also contributed essays to the following publications: The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History, Charles B. Strozier and David M. Terman, and James W. Jones, eds. (2010); End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity, Karolyn Kinane and Michael A. Ryan, eds. (2009); and War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth: Theories of the Apocalyptic, Glen McGhee and Stephen O’Leary, eds. (2005).

 

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
About the Authors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Europe in the Nineteenth Century	p. 1
Imperial Germany	p. 3
The Impact of World War I	p. 6
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 8
Beginnings: Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler and Nazism	p. 10
Weimar Germany	p. 10
Hitler and the Emergence of the Nazi Party (1889-1920)	p. 24
The Munich Politician and the Early Nazi Party (1920-1923)	p. 32
First Attempt at Power	p. 38
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 41
The Growth and Victory of Nazism 1924-1934	p. 45
New Beginnings: The Rebuilding of the Nazi Party, 1924-1929	p. 45
The Climb to Power, 1930-1933	p. 56
The Consolidation of Power, 1933-1934	p. 69
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 81
The Nazi State 1933-1939	p. 83
The Hitler State	p. 84
Economic and Social Developments	p. 90
Instrument of Terror: The SS Police State	p. 102
Legal and Judicial Systems	p. 109
The Churches	p. 110
The Military	p. 114
Public Opinion and Resistance in the Third Reich	p. 116
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 118
The Dictator	p. 121
Hitler's Personality	p. 122
Hitler as Messianic Leader	p. 126
Hitler the Orator	p. 128
Hitler as an Ideologist	p. 131
Propaganda and Mass Meetings	p. 137
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 144
Culture and Society in Nazi Germany	p. 146
Culture	p. 146
The Manipulation of Youth	p. 158
Education	p. 163
Women in the Third Reich	p. 166
Family and Population Policy	p. 172
Sex and Morals	p. 174
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 178
Hitler's War	p. 182
Prelude to War	p. 182
World War II	p. 199
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 217
Nazi Germany in Wartime	p. 220
The New Order	p. 220
The Home Front: Civil Life in Wartime Germany	p. 230
Resistance in Wartime Germany	p. 243
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 252
The Holocaust	p. 255
Hitler's Racial Ideology	p. 255
Anti-Semitism in Germany	p. 257
Anti-Jewish Policies, 1933-1939	p. 259
The Final Solution	p. 265
The Other Holocaust	p. 283
Questions about the Holocaust	p. 284
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 287
Conclusions	p. 292
The War Crimes Trials	p. 292
The Significance of Nazism	p. 293
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 296
Glossary	p. 297
Index	p. 298
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