Hitler and Nazi Germany

Frank McDonough provides an authoritative, balanced and up-to-date study of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. His text offers a refreshing perspective on the period, by shifting the central focus away from Hitler the man onto his role in the broad socioeconomic, political and cultural developments of the period. Among the developments and issues explored are the relationship between the Nazi state and the economy, the impact of the Nazi regime on German society and culture, Nazi foreign policy and Hitler's role in the Holocaust.

Introduction

1

(1)

Adolf Hitler: early life, ideology and rise to power, 1889--1933

2

(22)

Family background and early life

2

(3)

Hitler's Vienna years, 1908--13

5

(3)

Hitler moves to Munich, 1913

8

(1)

Hitler at war

8

(1)

The early growth of the Nazi Party

9

(3)

The Munich beer hall putsch

12

(1)

Hitler's ideology and aims

13

(2)

Hitler's rise to power

15

(9)

Document case study

19

(5)

The Nazi state and economy

24

(19)

The consolidation of power, 1933--34

24

(4)

The Nazi state

28

(4)

The economy in Nazi Germany

32

(11)

Document case study

39

(4)

Life inside Nazi Germany: social and cultural developments

43

(14)

The rituals of Nazi power

43

(1)

Property ownership

43

(1)

The army

44

(1)

Law and order

44

(1)

The family

45

(1)

Education

46

(1)

Youth

47

(1)

Women

48

(1)

Propaganda

49

(3)

Health

52

(5)

Document case study

53

(4)

Opposition and resistance inside Nazi Germany

57

(13)

The church

57

(1)

The army and Foreign Office

58

(3)

Communist resistance

61

(1)

The Kreisau Circle

62

(1)

Industrial workers

62

(1)

Social Democrats

63

(1)

University students (`White Rose Movement')

63

(1)

Youth protest

64

(1)

Humour

65

(5)

Document case study

66

(4)

Foreign policy: Hitler's road to war, 1933--39

70

(16)

Hitler moves cautiously

71

(1)

German rearmament

72

(1)

The Abyssinian crisis

73

(1)

The occupation of the Rhineland

73

(1)

The Spanish Civil War

73

(2)

Relations with Italy, Japan and Britain

75

(1)

The Hossbach memorandum

76

(1)

The Anschluss

77

(1)

The Czech crisis

77

(1)

The Munich agreement

78

(2)

Poland under threat

80

(1)

The prelude to the Nazi--Soviet pact

81

(1)

The outbreak of the Second World War

81

(5)

Document case study

82

(4)

Hitler at war, 1939--45

86

(20)

Hitler as war lord

86

(1)

The successful Nazi Blitzkrieg, 1939--40

87

(2)

The Battle of Britain, 1940

89

(1)

Hitler decides to attack the Soviet Union

90

(2)

Operation Barbarossa: the first phase, 22 June--December 1941

92

(2)

The German campaign in the Soviet Union, 1942--43

94

(3)

Military defeats for the Axis powers, 1942--44

97

(1)

The attack in western Europe

98

(1)

The final assault on Nazi Germany, 1944--45

99

(1)

The last days of Hitler

100

(6)

Document case study

102

(4)

Mass murder under Nazi rule

106

(17)

The development of anti-Semitism

106

(1)

Jewish discrimination in Nazi Germany, 1933--37

107

(2)

The growth of radical anti-Semitism, 1937--39

109

(1)

The euthanasia programme, 1939--41

109

(1)

The persecution of the Jews, 1939--41

110

(1)

The movement towards the Final Solution

111

(1)

The transition to systematic extermination: mass shootings in the Soviet Union

112

(1)

The Wannsee conference (1942)

113

(1)

The administration of death

113

(1)

The extermination camps

114

(2)

The broader dimensions of Nazi genocide

116

(1)

The singular fate of the Jews

117

(6)

Document case study

118

(5)

The verdict of historians

123

(16)

The problems of debate

123

(1)

Adolf Hitler: master of Nazi Germany?

124

(1)

Foreign policy

125

(2)

A social revolution?

127

(2)

The historians and the Nazi economy

129

(2)

The Holocaust

131

(5)

Conclusion

136

(3)

Bibliography

139

(3)

Glossary

142

(2)

Chronology

144

(4)

Index

148

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