Nazi Germany

<p><i>Nazi Germany</i> provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and military history of the regime. <p/>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. <i>Nazi Germany</i> 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: <p/>*The movement's ideological origins and the party's rise to power <p/>*The creation of a police state the use of propaganda and public support for Nazi ideas and programs <p/>*The Nazis' persecution of religious racial and sexual minorities <p/>*The place of youth family gender and cultural expression in Nazi society <p/>*The transnational influence of Nazism and preparations for war in Germany <p/>*The Holocaust resistance to Nazism and the Second World War <p/>Swett and Wiesen explore how the violence and racism of the Nazis coexisted alongside Germany's self-presentation as a 'normal' state with happy productive citizens.Through exposure to the voices of contemporaries readers will be prompted to consider key questions: How did German democracy give way to a brutal dictatorship so quickly? What was daily life like for 'average' Germans and those labeled as biological and political outsiders? Why did the Nazi dictatorship embark on a destructive war that led to the death of tens of millions of Europeans and to the demise of a political order that had become exceedingly popular by 1939?</p>