The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany

"Nazi Germany" is a succinct general study of the origins and development of the Nazi dictatorship, its impact on Germany and Europe and its consequences for our understanding of German and European history. Tim Kirk focuses on the relationship between Nazism and German society, and covers a number of important and controversial themes, including the social base of Nazism, the role of Hitler in the party and the Third Reich, the impact of Nazism on the everyday lives of ordinary Germans and the relationship between Nazi racial and eugenic policies and the Holocaust. He also examines the role of Hitler and Nazi ideology in the development of German foreign policy and concludes with a review of the many different interpretations and explanations of Nazism.

Tim Kirk is Lecturer in History at the University of Northumbria.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction: Peculiarities of German Historiography	p. 2
The Origins and Development of Nazism	p. 10
The Radical Right in Central Europe	p. 10
Hitler and the Nazi Party	p. 16
Who Supported the Nazis?	p. 23
The Demise of Parliamentary Democracy and the Rise of Hitler	p. 28
The Nazi Dictatorship	p. 34
The Consolidation of Power	p. 35
The 'National Revolution'	p. 42
'Polycratic' Government and the Cumulative Radicalisation of Policy	p. 46
The Fuhrer State?	p. 49
Nazism and the Economy	p. 56
Nazi Economic Ideology	p. 56
The Re-ordering of Industrial Relations	p. 59
Thwarted Expectations: The Mittelstand and the New Regime	p. 62
'Blood and Soil': The Impact of Nazi Policies in the Countryside	p. 66
Economic Recovery and Economic Crisis	p. 69
The Four-Year Plan and the Defence Economy in Peace-time	p. 71
The Nazi Economy at War	p. 75
The Myth of the 'National Community': German Society under Nazism	p. 83
Blood, Soil and Community	p. 84
Class Consciousness and National Community	p. 85
Workers and the Workplace	p. 88
Consumers and Consumption	p. 92
Accommodation and Alienation Among the Middle Classes	p. 94
Professionals and Public Servants in the Nazi State	p. 98
Young People in the Third Reich: A Nazi Generation?	p. 102
Compromises and Conflicts of Interest: The Churches and Nazism	p. 108
Revolutionary Rhetoric and Social Reality	p. 111
Culture, Leisure and Propaganda	p. 113
The New Cultural Order	p. 114
Nazism and the Mass Media	p. 118
Supervised Leisure: Strength through Joy	p. 128
Consensus and Opposition in the Third Reich	p. 132
The Political Police	p. 132
The Reich Security Head Office (RSHA)	p. 137
The SS	p. 138
The Concentration Camp System	p. 141
Resistance	p. 145
Reproduction, the Family and Racial Hygiene	p. 150
Women, Wives and Mothers	p. 151
Family Policy	p. 159
Criminal Sexualities	p. 162
'Life Unworthy of Life'	p. 168
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust	p. 173
'Scientific' Racism	p. 173
Anti-Semitism in Germany	p. 175
The Persecution of the Jews under the Nazi Regime	p. 177
Systematic Discrimination under the Nuremberg Laws	p. 179
The Radicalisation of Anti-Jewish Measures	p. 182
Operation Barbarossa and the Origins of the Holocaust	p. 189
Genocide	p. 191
Foreign Policy and the Second World War	p. 195
Hitler and Nazi Foreign Policy in the Weimar Republic	p. 196
Revisionism, Re-armament and the Restoration of German Greatness	p. 199
War and Expansion	p. 202
Conflict of Ideologies: War with the Soviet Union	p. 210
Women and the War Effort	p. 215
Demoralisation and Defeat	p. 216
Conclusion	p. 219
Notes	p. 223
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations	p. 250
Further Reading	p. 255
Index	p. 266
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