national socialism

To recall that "Hitler gave me a job when I was out of work" (rather than that "Hitler genocidally murdered 6 million Jews") seems a perverse falsification of history. This memoir of the 1930s is just such a falsification and, for this very reason, is naively truthful.

What is the responsibility of a follower of God when others are being persecuted and sent to prison camps and gas chambers?.

The historian shares the story of his childhood and youth during which he experienced World War II in a German household opposed to the Nazis and was forced to come to terms with his father's strong political convictions.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and career information about nearly 350 individuals who were prominent or played a significant role in the Third Reich.

Opening with an introduction delineating the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, Nazi Germany continues on with chapters that explain how Nazism emerged as an ideology and a political movement; how Hitler and his party took power and remade the German state; and how the Nazi "national community" was organized around a radical and eventually lethal distinction between the "included" and the "excluded." Later chapters discuss the complex relationship between Nazism and Germany's religious faiths; the perverse economic rationality of the regime; the path to war laid down by Hitler's foreign policy; and the intricate and intimate intertwining of war and genocide. The volume concludes with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.

Blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin Aryans were the objectives of Hitler's program known as Lebensborn which was established to create the "ideal" German and breed out their inpurities. Hear the stories of Steinhering, one of the birth places of the children born to this program.

A young boy, not recognizing the significance of being a Jew in Nazi, Germany, takes pride in the yellow star he is forced to wear, but he soon comes to feel shame and fear and must hide his light for a very long time until the war ends and he can once again take pride in his identity.

Provides the first analysis of Hitler's life by a trained MD and practicing psychiatrist.