Nazism, War and Genocide New Perspectives on

This volume of specially commissioned essays brings together contributions by internationally recognized scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA to present and reflect upon the latest research on the history of the Third Reich. The book provides a new approach to the history of Nazism's racial policy, its social policy, its planning for war and genocide, and its legacy. It shows how Nazism's radical ideological drive penetrated the most diverse areas of German society and everyday life. It reminds us that the crimes of the Third Reich were ultimately born of the decisions of a political, military and administrative leadership of singular ambition, drive and brutality.

Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (1998) (winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History; shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year); and Nazism: A Reader (2000).

Preface

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Nazism---A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn

1

(21)

Neil Gregor

Political Detention and the Origin of the Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933--1935/6

22

(20)

Jane Caplan

Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich

42

(14)

Dick Geary

Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933--1939

56

(19)

Robert Gellately

`Soldiers of the Home Front': Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War

75

(19)

Nikolaus Wachsmann

Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War

94

(16)

Jill Stephenson

Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940?

110

(21)

Ian Kershaw

Shoot First and Ask Questions Afterwards? Wannsee and the Unfolding of the Final Solution

131

(16)

Mark Roseman

Auschwitz and the Germans: History, Knowledge and Memory

147

(20)

Norbert Frei

Notes

167

(46)

List of Contributors

213

(2)

List of Publications

215

(4)

Jeremy Noakes

Index

219

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Nazism, War and Genocide New Perspectives on the History of the Third Reich

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