Description
Book SynopsisNazi Germany provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship, artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and military history of the regime.
The book unravels the complexities of the daily lives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in the Third Reich', and it also places events in Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a transnational context. Nazi Germany prompts readers to think about not only the historical debates but also the ethical questions that attend the study of this period. Pamela E. Swett and S. Jonathan Wiesen address:
*The movement's ideological origins and the party's rise to power
*The creation of a police state, the use of propaganda, and public support for Nazi ideas and programs
*The Nazis' persecution of religious, racial, and sexual minorities
*The place of youth, family, gender, and cultural expression in Nazi society
*The transnational influence of Nazism and preparat
