national socialism

Presents eleven essays on aspects of the Third Reich--including its economic and industrial policies, its enforcement of racial policy, the positions of Adolf Hitler and Hermann G?ring, and other topics--and the ways the Reich is analyzed and described by historians.

A history of the Weimar Republic beginning in 1918, analyzing its structure, strengths, and weaknesses, the inflation and depression of the 1920s, and the increasing popularity of Hitler; and arguing that the reasons for the fall of the Republic were political rather than economic.

Examines the intellectual, cultural, and social structure of the Third Reich through the diaries, documents, and testimonies of those who witnessed it, and describes the foundation of National Socialism and what it meant to the German people.

Analyzes the Nazi regime, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust through the personal testimonies of German Jews and non-Jewish Germans who maintain that much of the population were not only aware of the mass murders and the torture by the Gestapo but that intimidation and terror by the SS was rarely needed to enforce loyalty.

Draws upon the role of ideologies in group psychology to argue that Adolf Hitler was not a moral aberration but rather one of many Germans who shared the same worldview, part of a common German culture strongly shaped by the outcome of the First World War.

A biography of Hitler that examines his life and the reasons for his rise to power in Germany.

Offers a comparative history of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, describing the private and public lives of Hitler and Stalin, their ascents to power, the ways they dominated politics, culture, and economy, and each regime's lasting, violent legacy.

A biography of Hitler emphasizing his hatred for the Jews.

The Carson family's peaceful way of life in the shelter of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, is marred by violence when a group of Nazis escape from nearby Camp Trinidad during World War II, and demand that widower Jack Carson, his sons, and daughter provide them with food, weapons, and help getting to the Mexican border.

Argues that racial hatred was the driving force behind Nazism, not merely a by-product of it, and explains why Nazism destroyed the old Europe and helped create the modern world.