Publisher's acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Chronology | p. xv |
Who's who | p. xx |
Glossary | p. xxxv |
Maps | p. xlv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Historical Debate | p. 3 |
Can the Third Reich be 'historicised'? | p. 5 |
Analysis | p. 7 |
The Origins and Rise of National Socialism | p. 9 |
The ideological roots | p. 9 |
The Bismarckian Reich: an incubator of National Socialism? | p. 10 |
The German revolution, 1918-19: a turning point that did not turn? | p. 11 |
the formation of the NSDAP, 1919-24 | p. 12 |
The renaissance of the Nazi Party, 1925-30 | p. 14 |
Nazi voters, 1930-32 | p. 17 |
The road to power, September 1930-January 1933 | p. 18 |
The Legal Revolution and the Consolidation of Power, 1933-34 | p. 21 |
The dissolution of the Reichstag and the election of 5 March 1933 | p. 21 |
The 'revolution from below' and the Enabling Act | p. 23 |
The process of Gleichschaltung | p. 25 |
The churches | p. 27 |
The defeat of the second revolution | p. 28 |
State, Party and Führer: The Government of Nazi Germany, 1933-39 | p. 33 |
Ministries and 'Supreme Reich Authorities', 1933-38 | p. 33 |
Himmler and the SS state | p. 35 |
The centralisation of the Reich | p. 37 |
The civil service | p. 37 |
The Party | p. 38 |
The role of Hitler | p. 41 |
The Economy, 1933-39 | p. 43 |
Work creation and economic recovery, 1933-35 | p. 43 |
Agriculture | p. 45 |
The Mittelstand | p. 47 |
Schacht and the financing of German rearmament | p. 48 |
The Four Year Plan | p. 49 |
The industrialists and the Four Year Plan: winners and losers | p. 51 |
Rearmament and the German economy, 1937-39 | p. 52 |
The People's Community: German Society and the Third Reich, 1933-39 | p. 55 |
The work of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda | p. 55 |
Education and youth | p. 57 |
The peasantry | p. 60 |
Women and the family | p. 61 |
The workers | p. 64 |
Policing the Volksgemeinschaft | p. 67 |
The Hitler myth as a factor of integration | p. 68 |
The Racial State | p. 69 |
Nazi health and eugenic policies | p. 69 |
The 'asocials' and homosexuals | p. 71 |
Gypsies, part-Africans and the Slav minorities | p. 71 |
The Jews | p. 72 |
The Germans and the Jews | p. 77 |
Foreign Policy, 1933-39 | p. 78 |
Hitler's priorities, 1933-37 | p. 80 |
The Anschluss | p. 84 |
The destruction of Czechoslovakia | p. 86 |
The Polish crisis and the outbreak of war | p. 89 |
Germany, Europe and the World, 1939-45 | p. 92 |
The British problem, 1940-41 | p. 93 |
The decision to attack Soviet Russia | p. 95 |
From European to world war, 1941-45 | p. 96 |
Europe under German occupation, 1939-44 | p. 97 |
'Ethnic cleansing' and settlement policies in Eastern Europe | p. 102 |
The Holocaust | p. 104 |
The Home Front, 1939-45 | p. 108 |
Disintegration of the Führer state | p. 108 |
The increasing power of the Nazi Party and the SS | p. 109 |
The war economy | p. 112 |
Food supplies and rationing | p. 115 |
Solving the labour crisis in the war industries | p. 115 |
The impact of war on the German people, 1942-45 | p. 118 |
The end of the Hitler regime | p. 120 |
Postscript to the Third Reich: the Dönitz government | p. 121 |
The German Opposition | p. 123 |
Resistance and Resistenz | p. 124 |
Opposition from the Churches | p. 125 |
Opposition on the Left | p. 127 |
The challenge of youth culture | p. 128 |
Resistance by the military and conservative elites | p. 130 |
The road to 20 July 1944 | p. 132 |
Why was there no German revolution in 1945? | p. 134 |
Assessment | p. 137 |
The Third Reich in Retrospect | p. 139 |
Hitler's rise to power | p. 139 |
The Nazi regime | p. 140 |
How 'modern' was the Third Reich? | p. 141 |
The legacy of Nazi Germany | p. 142 |
Documents | p. 145 |
The nature of fascism | p. 146 |
Hermann Rauschning on the aims of Nazism, 1938 | p. 146 |
The party programme | p. 147 |
Hitler's powers as an orator | p. 150 |
Working within the constitution | p. 150 |
Hitler as saviour | p. 151 |
Why the Centre Party voted for the Enabling Bill | p. 151 |
Goebbels and the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda | p. 152 |
Hitler's speech to the Reichsstatthalter, 6 July 1933 | p. 153 |
Hitler's plans for the army | p. 153 |
Papen warns Hitler on 17 June 1934 | p. 154 |
Hitler's lifestyle | p. 154 |
'Working towards the Führer' | p. 155 |
A British view of Hitler | p. 156 |
The number of unemployed (in millions) | p. 156 |
The Four Year Plan | p. 156 |
Achievements of the Four Year Plan, 1936-42 | p. 158 |
Gross national product and military expenditure in Germany, the USA and Britain, 1933-45 | p. 159 |
A Nazi history syllabus | p. 160 |
The League of German Girls | p. 161 |
Women's place in the Nazi state | p. 161 |
Population statistics | p. 162 |
The egalitarian state | p. 162 |
'Do-it-yourself' wage bargaining | p. 163 |
Labour relations and the Gestapo | p. 164 |
The impact of the 'Beauty of Labour' and 'Strength through Joy' schemes | p. 164 |
Development of wages and cost of living index, 1929-40 | p. 165 |
Average gross hourly earnings in selected industries, 1935-38 | p. 166 |
Hitler on the racial state | p. 166 |
Himmler's circular on the 'gypsy nuisance' | p. 167 |
Hitler and the Jews | p. 168 |
Hitler threatens the Jews with annihilation | p. 169 |
Hitler's thinking on foreign policy in Mein Kampf | p. 169 |
The Hossbach Memorandum | p. 170 |
Hitler surveys the international situation, 22 August 1939 | p. 172 |
Hitler gives the order to prepare for an attack on the USSR | p. 173 |
The Einsatzgruppen | p. 174 |
German treatment of Russian prisoners of war | p. 174 |
Resettlement policies in Poland | p. 175 |
Hitler's racial priorities | p. 176 |
The Wannsee Conference | p. 176 |
Comparison between the British and German war efforts | p. 177 |
The inefficiencies of labour conscription | p. 177 |
The strains of war on the family | p. 178 |
The Swing Movement | p. 179 |
The Confessing Church emphasises the Fifth Commandment, 1943 | p. 179 |
Individual acts of opposition | p. 180 |
General von Tresckow on the significance of the opposition | p. 181 |
Contrasting attitudes towards Hitler in March 1945 | p. 182 |
Guide to Further Reading | p. 183 |
References | p. 190 |
Index | p. 196 |
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