The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation

by Mitchell, Allan

• ISBN13: 9780669208801
• ISBN10: 0669208809
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-06-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Table of Contents

Chronology of Events	xi	(3)
Reference maps: Germany Before and After World War I, 1914-19	xiv	(1)
Hitler's Conquests, 1938-39	xv	(2)
Introduction	xvii
I The Nazi Movement and German History	1	(28)
Hans-Ulrich Wehler
The Case for Continuity	4	(4)
David Blackbourn
German Peculiarity in Question	8	(5)
Geoffrey Pridham
The Roots of Nazism	13	(5)
Thomas Childers
The Party's Electoral Appeal	18	(6)
A. J. Nicholls
The Final Step to Power	24	(5)
II The Personality of the Leader	29	(76)
Karl Dietrich Bracher
Fantasy and Fact	31	(14)
Alan Bullock
Deception and Calculation	45	(11)
Ernst Nolte
Infantilism, Monomania, Mediumism	56	(10)
Robert G. L. Waite
Guilt Feelings and Perverted Sexuality	66	(13)
Peter Loewenberg
The Appeal to Youth	79	(26)
III Industry, Church, and Army	105	(34)
Joachim C. Fest
Enthusiasm and Confusion	108	(5)
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.
The Legend of Capitalist Support	113	(7)
William Carr
The Cooperation of Big Business	120	(6)
Ernst Christian Helmreich
The Ambiguity of Religious Leaders	126	(7)
Hans-Adolf Jacobsen
Military Officers and the Resistance	133	(6)
IV The Social Impact of Nazism	139	(44)
William Sheridan Allen
The Nazification of a Town	142	(5)
T. W. Mason
Workers in the German Labor Front	147	(11)
Detlev Peukert
Obedient and Dissident Youth	158	(9)
Jill Stephenson
The Wary Response of Women	167	(8)
Sarah Gordon
The Fate of German Jews	175	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	183