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Book SynopsisSir Ian Kershaw is a leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich. Among his publications is the internationally acclaimed two volume biography
Hitler (1998 and 2000). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and was knighted in 2002 for services to the field of history.
Trade ReviewUnquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich. * International History Review *
Impressive...acute...extraordinary. * English Historical Review *
The best short introduction to the study of Hitler's Germany. * European History Quarterly *
Table of ContentsPreface to the Revelations Edition Abbreviations 1. Historians and the problem of explaining Nazism 2. The Essence of Nazism: form of fascism, brand of totalitarianism, or unique phenomenon? 3. Politics and economics in the Nazi State 4. Hitler: ‘master of the Third Reich’ or ‘weak dictator’ 5. Hitler and the Holocaust 6. Nazi foreign policy: Hitler’s ‘programme’ or ‘expansion without object’? 7. The Third Reich: ‘social reaction’ or ‘social revolution’? 8. ‘Resistance without the people’? 9. ‘Normality’ and genocide: the problem of ‘historicization’ 10. Shifting perspectives: historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification
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