The Nazi Revolution Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation

by Mitchell, Allan

• ISBN13: 9780669416947
• ISBN10: 0669416940
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-02
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This successful anthology explores the Nazi movement in the context of German history and society.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Chronology of Events	xi
Reference Maps: Germany Before and After World War I, 1914--1919	xiv
Hitler's Conquests, 1938--1939	xv
Introduction	xii
I The Nazi Movement and German History	1	(28)
The Case for Continuity	3	(5)
Hans-Ulrich Wehler
German Peculiarity in Question	8	(4)
David Blackbourn
The Theory of a Sonderweg	12	(6)
Jurgen Kocka
Differences or Deviance?	18	(5)
Charles S. Maier
The Three Paradoxes of Nazism	23	(6)
Allan Mitchell
II The Seizure of Power	29	(30)
The Roots of Nazism	31	(5)
Geoffrey Pridham
The Party's Electoral Appeal	36	(6)
Thomas Childers
The Final Step to Power	42	(5)
A. J. Nicholls
Enthusiasm and Confusion	47	(5)
Joachim C. Fest
Tightening the Grip	52	(7)
Richard Bessel
III The Personality of the Leader	59	(48)
Fantasy and Fact	61	(14)
Karl Dietrich Bracher
Fanaticism and Calculation	75	(8)
Alan Bullock
Hitler's Racism	83	(5)
Michael Burleigh
Wolfgang Wippermann
The Hitler Myth	88	(4)
Ian Kershaw
Guilt Feelings and Perverted Sexuality	92	(15)
Robert G. L. Waite
IV The Crucial Role of German Elites	107	(42)
The Legend of Capitalist Support	110	(7)
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.
The Cooperation of Big Business	117	(6)
William Carr
The Ambiguity of Religious Leaders	123	(8)
Ernst Christian Helmreich
The Control of Cultural Life	131	(4)
Alan E. Steinweis
Generals and the German Resistance	135	(14)
Peter Hoffmann
V The Social Impact of Nazism	149	(54)
The Nazification of a Town	152	(5)
William Sheridan Allen
Workers in the German Labor Front	157	(7)
Timothy W. Mason
Obedient and Dissident Youth	164	(9)
Detlev Peukert
The Wary Response of Women	173	(9)
Jill Stephenson
Mothers in the Fatherland	182	(7)
Claudia Koonz
The Ambivalence of Anti-Semitism	189	(7)
Sarah Gordon
The War, The Final Solution, and the Defeat	196	(7)
Omer Bartov
Suggestions for Additional Reading	203