Hitler and Nazi Germany / Edition 6

by Jackson J. Spielvogel, David Redles

Overview

This brief yet comprehensive survey of the Third Reich, based on current research findings, provides a balanced approach in examining Hitler's role in the history of the Third Reich. Coverage encompasses the economic, social, and political forces that made possible the rise and growth of Nazism as well as the institutional, cultural, and social life of the Third Reich; the Second World War; and the Holocaust. For general readers who want a deeper understand of this period in German history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205695324
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	10/21/2009
Series:	MySearchLab Series for History Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jackson Spielvogel is associate professor emeritus of history at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Moreana, Journal of General Education, Catholic Historical Review, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte , and American Historical Review. He has also contributed chapters or articles to The Social History of the Reformation, The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies, and Utopian Studies. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation for study and research in Nürnberg, Germany, and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western civilization courses as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. He is the author of Western Civilization, published in 1991 (seventh edition, 2009). He is the coauthor (with William Duiker) of World History, first published in 1998 (sixth edition, 2010), and The Essential World History (third edition, 2008).

Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. He held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award in 1988-1989. In 1996 he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty Member and in 2000 the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award.

David Redles received his Ph.D. in history from Pennsylvania State University and is currently associate professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. He is author of Hitler’s Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation (hardcover: 2005, paperback: 2008). He also contributed essays to the following publications: The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History, Charles B. Strozier and David M. Terman, and James W. Jones, eds. (2010); End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity, Karolyn Kinane and Michael A. Ryan, eds. (2009); and War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth: Theories of the Apocalyptic, Glen McGhee and Stephen O’Leary, eds. (2005).

Table of Contents

PREFACE
ABOUT THE AUTHORS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Imperial Germany
The Impact of World War I
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 2: BEGINNINGS: WEIMAR GERMANY AND THE RISE OF HITLER AND NAZISM
Weimar Germany
Hitler and the Emergence of the Nazi Party (1889–1920)
The Munich Politician and the Early Nazi Party (1920–1923)
First Attempt at Power
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 3: THE GROWTH AND VICTORY OF NAZISM 1924–1934
New Beginnings: The Rebuilding of the Nazi Party, 1924–1929
The Climb to Power, 1930–1933
The Consolidation of Power, 1933–1934
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 4: THE NAZI STATE 1933–1939
The Hitler State
Economic and Social Developments
Instrument of Terror: The SS Police State
Legal and Judicial Systems
The Churches
The Military
Public Opinion and Resistance in the Third Reich
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 5: THE DICTATOR
Hitler’s Personality
Hitler as Messianic Leader
Hitler the Orator
Hitler as an Ideologist
Propaganda and Mass Meetings
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 6: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN NAZI GERMANY
Culture
The Manipulation of Youth
Education
Women in the Third Reich
Family and Population Policy
Sex and Morals
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 7: HITLER’S WAR
Prelude to War
World War II
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 8: NAZI GERMANY IN WARTIME
The New Order
The Home Front: Civil Life in Wartime Germany
Resistance in Wartime Germany
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 9: THE HOLOCAUST
Hitler’s Racial Ideology
Anti-Semitism in Germany
Anti-Jewish Policies, 1933–1939
The Final Solution
The Other Holocaust
Questions About the Holocaust
Suggestions for Further Reading

CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSIONS
The War Crimes Trials
The Significance of Nazism
Suggestions for Further Reading

GLOSSARY
INDEX