Table of Contents

PrefaceGeneral IntroductionContemporary Characterizations of National SocialismIntroductionGermany's Revolution of Destruction, Hermann RauschningNational Socialism: A Menace, Ewald Von Kleist-SchmenzinGerman Address: A Call to Reason, Thomas MannThe Party, Theodor HeussThe Impossibility of Constructive Achievement, Fritz GerlichThe Third Reich is Here!, Ingbert NaabHitler and Christianity, Alfons WoldThe Psychology of Nazism, Erich FrommOvercoming National Socialism, Carl MierendorffSome Causes and Consequences of National Socialism, Karl KautskyThe Meaning of Fascism, Harald LaskiOn the German Situation, Ernst TollerThe Emergence of National SocialismIntroductioni. A Special Path?The German Empire 1871-1918, Hans-Ulrich WehlerThe Causes of National Socialism, Jürgen KockaWhat Produces Fascism: Pre-industrial Traditions or a Crisis of Capitalism?, Geoff EleyThe Special Path of German History: Myth or Reality?, Dieter Grohii. The National Socialist MovementThe Social Motivation and Führer Bond in National Socialism, Martin BroszatThe Nazi Party in Lower Saxony, Jeremy NoakesThe NSDAP as Party and Movement, Albrecht TyrellThe Rise of German Fascism, Roger GriffinThe NSDAP: A 'People's Protest Party', Jürgen Falteriii. The Failure of Weimar and the Crisis of 1933Stages of the Seizure of Power, Karl-Dietrich BracherThe National Socialist Seizure of Power and German Society, Hans MommsenWhy Did the Weimar Republic Collapse?, Richard BesselThe Crisis of Classical Modernity, Detlev Peukert30 January 1933, Ian Kershawiv. National Socialism, Civil Society and the Seizure of Power 1929-1933The Nazi Seizure of Power, William Sheridan AllenThe Growth of National Socialism in the Countryside, Zdenek ZofkaToward the Mass Party, Rudy KosharThe Abandoned Regulars' Table, Oded HeilbronnerProtestant-Rural Milieu and National Socialism prior to 1933, Wolfram PytaC. The National Socialist RegimeIntroductioni. The National Socialist Regime as Monolith: Theories of TotalitarianismThe Novelty of Totalitarianism, Carlton J.H. HayesIdeology and Terror, Hannah ArendtTotalitarianism as Concept and Reality, Karl-Dietrich Bracherii. Marxist Theories of National SocialismThe Nature of Hitler Fascism, Walter UlbrichtThe Beginning of a New Stage of State Monopoly Development, E. Paterna et al.The Fascist State: The German Example, Ernst Gottschlingiii. The Regime as Polycratic State, a. Wartime Émigré WritersThe Dual State, Ernst FraenkelBehemoth, Franz Neumann, b. The Regime and the Conservative EstablishmentThe Primacy of Politics, Tim MasonThe Nazi Empire 1938-1944, Peter HayesThe Civil Service in the Third Reich, Hans MommsenState Formation and Political Representation in Nazi Germany, Jane CaplanAdministration versus Human Leadership, Dieter Rebentisch and Karl TeppeThe Army and the Third Reich, Klaus-Jürgen MüllerThe Gleichschaltung of the Armed Forces, Wilhelm DeistThe Wehrmacht in the National Socialist State, Manfred MesserschmidtJustice in the Third Reich, Lothar GruchmannJews on Trial, Ralph Angermund, c. Charismatic Authority and the Erosion of Rational-Bureaucratic GovernmentFeudal Aspects of National Socialism, Robert KoehlThe Hitler State, Martin BroszatParty and State in the Third Reich, Peter Diehl-ThieleCumulative Radicalization and Self- Destruction of the Nazi Regime, Hans MommsenNational Socialist Polycracy, Peter HüttenbergerIntention and Explanation, Tim MasonThe State in National Socialist Germany, Michael GeyerWorking Towards the Führer, Ian KershawD. The 'Seductive Surface' of National SocialismIntroductionInventory of Revolutionary Appearance, Ernst BlochMagic and Manipulation, Klaus VondungThe Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich, Anson G. RabinbachSplit Consciousness, Jans-Dietrich SchäeferThe 'Seductive Surface' of the Third Reich, Peter ReichelThe Honour of Labour: Industrial Workers and the Power of Symbols under National Socialism, Alf LüedtkeThe Matrix of Totalitarian Imagery: Public Space, the National Socialist Year and the Generational Cycle, Jost DülfferE. National Socialism and the German SocietyIntroductioni. Resistenz?Resistenz and Resistance, Martin BroszatThe Social Bases of Resistenz and Resistance, Klaus TenfeldeResistance without the People?, Ian KershawResistenz or Loyal Reluctance?, Klaus- Michael Mallmann and Gerhard Paulii. ParticipationThe Gestapo and Social Cooperation: The Example of Political Denunciation, Robert GellatelyMothers in the Fatherland, Claudia KoonzRacial Hygiene and Professional Leadership, Paul WeindlingThe Problem of Motivation Reconsidered, Michael H. KaterDeath and Deliverance, Michael BurleighReflections on a Massacre, Christopher BrowningThe Missing Years: German Workers, German Soldiers, Omer BartovThe Conditions for Genocide, Michael ZimmermannF. The Impact of National SocialismIntroductionThe Third Reich and Society, David SchoenbaumNational Socialist Germany and the Social Revolution, Ralph DahrendorfBrown Revolution?, Detlev PeukertNational Socialism and Modernization, Jens AlberPersecution and Coordination, Detlev PeukertThe Concentration Camps as Part of the National Socialist System of Domination, Falk PingelRacial Policy and Women's Policy, Gisela BockThe Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi German, Hans-Georg StüemkeBetween Resistance and Martyrdom, Detlev GarbeHitler's Foreign Workers, Ulrich HerbertSoviet Prisoners of War—Mass Deportation—Forced Workers, Christian StreitKilling Operations,, Leni YahilChildren, Raul HilbergThe Number of Victims, Franciszek PiperOperation Reinhard,, Yitzhak AradPoland, Frank GolczewskiThe Persecution of Sinti and Roma, Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang WippermannG. The Legacy of National SocialismIntroductioni. Confronting the PastOn the Engagement with National Socialist Violent Crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany, Peter SteinbachPost-war Society and National Socialism: Memory, Amnesia, Defensiveness, Wolfgang BenzThe Politics of the Past, Norbert Freiii. Denazification and War Crimes TrialThe Fellow-Travellers' Factory, Lutz NiethammerDenazification, Clemens VollnhalsIn the Name of the German People, Hermann LangbeinNational Socialist Extermination Camps as Reflected in German Trials, Adalbert Rückerliii. Bitburg, Historicization and the HistorikerstreitBitburg History, Charles S. MaierBitburg as Symbol, Raul HilbergNazism, Politics, and the Image of the Past, Geoff EleyThe Historikerstreit in Context,, Peter BaldwinIV. Holocaust memory in the 1990sGermany: The Ambiguity of Memory,, James E. YoungJews and Russians in the Memory of the Germans, Lutz NeithammerA War against Memory?, Isabel WollastonNotesFurther ReadingAcknowledgementsIndex