The Third Reich, 4th Edition

One of our best-selling Seminar Studies titles, The Third Reich was both revised and substantially enlarged in a third edition in 2002, yet much new research has appeared in recent years. The new fourth edition will incorporate new findings and with an additional section on the German Home Front will become the most up-to-date introduction in the field.

CONTENTS

            Introduction to the Series         

            Acknowledgements     

            Chronology     

            Who’s Who

            Glossary

             Maps 

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.         THE HISTORICAL DEBATE

                        Can the Third Reich be ‘Historicised’? 

PART TWO: ANALYSIS     

2.         THE ORIGINS AND RISE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM  

                        The Ideological Roots  

                        The Bismarckian Reich: An Incubator of National Socialism?    

                        The German Revolution, 1918–19: A Turning Point that did not Turn?

                        Adolf Hitler and the Formation of the NSDAP, 1919–24         

                        The Renaissance of the Nazi Party, 1925–30   

                        Nazi Voters, 1930–32 

                        The Road to Power, September 1930–January 1933   

3.         THE LEGAL REVOLUTION AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, 1933–34        

                        The Dissolution of the Reichstag and the Election of 5 March 1933       

                        The ‘Revolution from Below’ and the Enabling Act       

                        The Process of Gleichschaltung

                        The Churches  

                        The Defeat of the Second Revolution   

4.         STATE, PARTY AND FÜHRER: THE GOVERNMENT OF NAZI GERMANY, 1933–39 

                        Ministries and ‘Supreme Reich Authorities’, 1933–38  

                        Himmler and the SS State        

                        The Centralisation of the Reich 

                        The Civil Service         

                        The Party        

                        The Role of Hitler        

 5.        THE ECONOMY, 1933–39   

                        Work Creation and Economic Recovery, 1933–35      

                        Agriculture       

                        The Mittelstand

                        Schacht and the Financing of German Rearmament       

                        The Four Year Plan

                        Industrialists and the Four Year Plan: winners and losers

                        Rearmament and the German Economy, 1936–39        

6.         THE PEOPLE’S COMMUNITY: GERMAN SOCIETY AND THE THIRD REICH, 1933–39         

The Work of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda       

                        Education and Youth   

                        The Peasantry  

                        Women and the Family

            p;                    Nazi Health and Eugenic Policies          

                        The ‘Asocials’ and Homosexuals         

                        Gypsies, Part-Africans and the Slav Minorities 

                        The Jews

                        The Germans and the Jews      

8.         FOREIGN POLICY, 1933–39           

                        Hitler’s Priorities, 1933–37      

                        The Anschluss 

                        The Destruction of Czechoslovakia      

                        The Polish Crisis and the Outbreak of War       

9.         GERMANY, EUROPE AND THE WORLD, 1939–45          

                        The British Problem, 1940–41 

                        The Decision to Attack Soviet Russia   

                        From European to World War, 1941–45         

                        Europe under German Occupation, 1939–44   

                        ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ and Settlement Policies in Eastern Europe    

                        The Holocaust 

10.       THE HOME FRONT, 1939–45         

                        Disintegration of the Führer State         

                        The Increasing Power of the Political Party and the SS 

                        The War Economy      

                        Food Supplies and Rationing

                Solving the Labour Crisis in the War Industries         

                        The Impact of War on the German People, 1942–45   

                        The End of the Hitler Regime   

                        Postscript to the Third Reich: The Doenitz Government 

11.       THE GERMAN OPPOSITION          

                        Resistance and Resistenz          

                        Opposition from the Churches  

                        Opposition on the Left 

                        The Challenge of Youth Culture           

                        Resistance by the Military and Conservative Elites        

                        The Road to 20 July 1944       

                        Why was there no German Revolution in 1945?           

PART THREE: ASSESSMENT      

12.       THE THIRD REICH IN RETROSPECT        

                        Hitler’s Rise to Power  

                        The Nazi regime

                        How 'modern'as the Third Reich    

                        The Legacy of Nazi Germany

PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS        nbsp;             Guide to Further Reading           

                       References

                       Index