Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-368) and index.
Contents:
Fascism and the conservative tradition: fascist ideology, constituency, and conditions for its growth -- The problem of German unity: absolutism and particularism -- The German empire: the containment of democracy, social imperialism, and the road to war -- Germanic ideology: nationalism, vulgarized idealism, and antisemitism -- The First World War: the crisis of imperial Germany -- The Weimar Republic and the weakness of liberal democracy -- The collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression and the rise of the Nazis -- The Nazi consolidation of power, 1933-1934 -- Economy, society, and the state in the Third Reich -- Education, culture, religion, and eugenics in the Third Reich -- Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1939 -- The origins of the Second World War -- The Second World War: from European to global war, 1939-1941 -- The Second World War: from triumph to defeat, 1942-1945 -- The Holocaust -- Continuities and new beginnings: the aftermath of National Socialism and war -- The historians' debate: the place of Hitler's Reich in German history and memory.
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