national socialism

William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.

Examines the special relationship that developed between the two most youthful and dynamic branches of the National Socialist movement and concludes that the coalition gave nazism much of its passionate energy and contributed greatly to its initial political and military success.

In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double, a poor Jewish barber, who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.

A biography of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and, later, the German nation and whose ambitions led the world to war.

The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.

Discusses the five weeks of large-scale killings that followed Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, examining the use of ethnic cleansing and political murder at this stage, the ways the invasion shaped later Nazi actions, and the mentality of the officers and soldiers who committed mass murder and atrocities in Poland.

Adolf Hitler discusses, among other ideas, his thoughts on war, violence, and identification of Jews as the core enemy of Germany's foreign policy; and outlines a strategy of presumed alliance with Great Britain and Fascist Italy.

Surveys the experiences and attitudes of ordinary German people between 1933 and 1945 in an attempt to discern the degree to which Nazi policies of repression, terrorism, and racism were tolerated by citizens of the Third Reich.

Collects more than one hundred extracts from contemporary and older studies of National Socialism, covering such facets as National Socialism's emergence, the regime, its "seductive surface, " its relationship to German society, its impact, and its legacy.