Preface to the Second Edition. Chronology. Introduction: the Problems of Writing About National Socialism 1. Fascism and the Conservative Tradition: Fascist Ideology, Constituency, and Conditions for its Growth 2. The Problem of German Unity: Absolutism and Particularism 3. The German Empire: the Containment of Democracy, Social Imperialism, and the Road to War 4. Germanic Ideology: Nationalism, Vulgarized Idealism, and Antisemitism 5. The First World War: The Crisis of Imperial Germany 6. The Weimar Republic and the Weakness of Liberal Democracy 7. The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis 8. The Nazi Consolidation of Power, 19331934 9. Economy, Society, and the State in the Third Reich 10. Education, Culture, Religion, and Eugenics in the Third Reich 11. Persecution of the Jews, 19331939 12. The Origins of the Second World War 13. The Second World War: From European to Global War, 19391941 14. The Second World War: From Triumph to Defeat, 19421945 15. The Holocaust 16. Continuities and New Beginnings: the Aftermath of National Socialism and War 17. The Historians` Debate: the Place of Hitler`s Reich in German History and Memory. Select Bibliography
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 is Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Gonzaga University. His publications include The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany (2007) and with Sally A. Winkle, The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (2002).
The first edition of
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