Hitler and Nazi Germany

by Spielvogel, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780139759963
• ISBN10: 0139759964
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Providing a clear, straightforward, and complete history-both thematic and chronological-of the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, author Jackson J. Spielvogel places the emergence of Hitler and the Third Reich within the social, economic, and political contexts that made it all possible. Topics examined are the cultural and social aspects of the Nazi regime, including sections on art and literature, family and population policy, and sex and morals. Also provided is an in-depth view of the Holocaust anti-Semitism in Germany, Hitler's personal racial ideology and vision of Aryan purity, the mechanisms of terror and control, and the Jewish perspective on these events. New to the Fifth Edition: Material on the political scene in Weimar Germany Hitler's early life The role of Gregor Strasser in rebuilding the Nazi Party Material on Darre and "Blood and Soil" The SS and the military between 1933 and 1939

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(9)
Europe in the Nineteenth Century	1	(2)
The Impact of World War I	3	(1)
Imperial Germany	4	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	8	(2)
Beginnings: Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler and Nazism	10	(32)
Weimar Germany	10	(10)
Hitler and the Emergence of the Nazi Party (1889--1920)	20	(8)
The Munich Politician and the Early Nazi Party (1920--1923)	28	(8)
First Attempt at Power	36	(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading	39	(3)
The Growth and Victory of Nazism 1924--1934	42	(40)
New Beginnings: The Rebuilding of the Nazi Party, 1924--1929	42	(11)
The Climb to Power, 1930--1933	53	(15)
The Consolidation of Power, 1933--1934	68	(12)
Suggestions for Further Reading	80	(2)
The Nazi State 1933--1939	82	(42)
The Hitler State	83	(7)
Economic and Social Developments	90	(13)
Instrument of Terror: The SS Police State	103	(7)
Legal and Judicial Systems	110	(1)
The Churches	111	(5)
The Military	116	(1)
Public Opinion and Resistance in the Third Reich	117	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	121	(3)
The Dictator	124	(29)
Hitler's Personality	125	(6)
Hitler as Messianic Leader	131	(2)
Hitler the Orator	133	(2)
Hitler as an Ideologist	135	(7)
Propaganda and Mass Meetings	142	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	150	(3)
Culture and Society in Nazi Germany	153	(39)
Culture	153	(14)
The Manipulation of Youth	167	(5)
Education	172	(5)
Women in the Third Reich	177	(5)
Family and Population Policy	182	(3)
Sex and Morals	185	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	189	(3)
Hitler's War	192	(41)
Prelude to War	192	(19)
World War II	211	(18)
Suggestions for Further Reading	229	(4)
Nazi Germany in Wartime	233	(36)
The New Order	233	(10)
The Home Front: Civil Life in Wartime Germany	243	(15)
Resistance in Wartime Germany	258	(9)
Suggestions for Further Reading	267	(2)
The Holocaust	269	(36)
Hitler's Racial Ideology	269	(3)
Anti-Semitism in Germany	272	(1)
Anti-Jewish Policies, 1933--1939	273	(4)
The Final Solution	277	(10)
The Jewish View of the Holocaust	287	(11)
The Other Holocaust	298	(1)
Questions About the Holocaust	298	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	302	(3)
Conclusions	305	(6)
The War Crimes Trials	305	(1)
The Significance of Nazism	306	(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading	309	(2)
Glossary	311	(2)
Index	313