Evans, Richard J.

The Third Reich in history and memory / Richard J. Evans. - xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. REPUBLIC AND REICH -- Blueprint for genocide? -- Imagining empire -- The defeat of 1918 -- Walther Rathenau -- Berlin in the twenties -- Social outsiders -- PART II. INSIDE NAZI GERMANY -- Coercion and consent -- The 'People's Community' -- Was Hitler ill? -- Adolf and Eva -- PART III. THE NAZI ECONOMY -- Economic recovery -- The People's Car -- The Arms of Krupp -- The fellow-traveller -- PART IV. FOREIGN POLICY -- Hitler's ally -- Towards war -- Nazis and diplomats -- PART V: VICTORY AND DEFEAT -- Fateful choices -- Engineers of victory -- The food of war -- Defeat out of victory -- Decline and fall -- PART VI. THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE -- Empire, race and war -- Was the 'Final Solutiom' unique? -- Europe's killing fields -- PART VII. AFTERMATH -- The other horror -- Urban utopias -- Art in time of war.

9781408706442


Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.


National socialism.
World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
Collective memory--History--21st century.
War and society--History.
Political culture--History.


Germany--Economic policy--1933-1945.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Germany--Politics and government--1945-
Germany--History--Historiography.--1933-1945

943.086 / E92