Hitler's Germany

<p>Praise for the first edition:</p><p>'This is an important new textbook on the Nazi period which is geared to intermediate and advanced undergraduates and will also interest general audiences ... this book is a real winner and deserves wide use.' <em>- Bruce Campbell German Studies Review </em></p><p>'An excellent job... provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the origins of National Socialism in Germany Hitler's rise to power and the nature of the Nazi regime after 1933... no small achievement.' <em>- David Crew University of Texas Austin</em></p><p><em>Hitler’s Germany</em> provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history. Roderick Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness. </p><p>This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field. It includes</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany </li> <p> </p> <li>an extended analysis of fascism totalitarianism imperialism and ideology </li> <p> </p> <li>a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism </li> <p> </p> <li>discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics </li> <p> </p> <li>new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture the arts education and religion </li> <p> </p> <li>additional maps tables and a chronology </li> <p> </p> <li>a fully updated bibliography. </li> </ul><p>Exploring the controversies surrounding Nazism and its afterlife in historiography and historical memory <em>Hitler’s Germany</em> provides students with an interpretive framework for understanding this extraordinary episode in German and European history.</p>