Hitler’s Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

Hitler’s Germany 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. This revised second edition includes: a new conclusion and glossary drawing on the latest research and current debates a expanded introduction focusing on the uniqueness of Germany an extended analysis of totalitarianism, imperialism and ideology a broadened contextualisation of anti-Semitism discussion of the holocaust including the euthanasia program and non-Jewish victims new chapters focusing on Nazi social economic policies as well as party apparatus, the government machine, popular legitimary and the role of popular culture and the arts additional photographs, maps and tables. a fully updated bibliography.