Bibliograph

The Third Reich in history and memory, Richard J. Evans

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The Third Reich in history and memory, Richard J. Evans

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Third Reich in history and memory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

893455512

Responsibility statement

Richard J. Evans

Summary

"Since the end of the twentieth century, our understanding of Nazi Germany has been transformed in a variety of ways. In this collected volume, Richard J. Evans offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in the last two decades. The essays, drawn from Evans' writings over the last two decades, move from the genesis of Nazism, through its rise to political power and its economic and political intricacies, to postwar Germany, considering at each point the suppression, reappropriation, and survival of memory. Evans also explores the 'global turn' in historical studies in recent years, revealing how it has broadened our understanding of the Third Reich in an international context; considers the development of research in the area of Nazi society, particularly in the understanding of Nazi Germany as a political system based on popular approval and consent; and discusses the growing focus on postwar Germany and its subterranean continuities with the Nazi era"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

PART I. REPUBLIC AND REICH -- Blueprint for genocide? -- Imagining empire -- The defeat of 1918 -- Walther Rathenau -- Berlin in the twenties -- Social outsiders -- PART II. INSIDE NAZI GERMANY -- Coercion and consent -- The 'People's Community' -- Was Hitler ill? -- Adolf and Eva -- PART III. THE NAZI ECONOMY -- Economic recovery -- The People's Car -- The Arms of Krupp -- The fellow-traveller -- PART IV. FOREIGN POLICY -- Hitler's ally -- Towards war -- Nazis and diplomats -- PART V: VICTORY AND DEFEAT -- Fateful choices -- Engineers of victory -- The food of war -- Defeat out of victory -- Decline and fall -- PART VI. THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE -- Empire, race and war -- Was the 'Final Solutiom' unique? -- Europe's killing fields -- PART VII. AFTERMATH -- The other horror -- Urban utopias -- Art in time of war

Target audience

adult

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