Title: Nazism, war and genocide : essays in honour of Jeremy Noakes /
Authors: Noakes, Jeremy; Gregor, Neil, 1969-
Publisher: University of Exeter Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: National socialism.; World War, 1939-1945 Germany.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany; Germany History; Germany Politics and government
Abstract: This volume presents and reflects upon the latest research on the history of the Third Reich. It provides a new approach to the history of Nazism's racial policy, its social policy, its planning for war and genocide, and its legacy. It shows how Nazism's radical ideological drive penetrated the most diverse areas of German society and everyday life. The book reminds us that the crimes of the Third Reich were ultimately born of the decisions of a political, military, and administrative leadership of singular ambition, drive, and brutality.
Contents: Nazism--a political religion? Rethinking the voluntarist turn / Neil Gregor -- Political detention and the origin of the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6 / Jane Caplan -- Working-class identities in the Third Reich / Dick Geary -- Social outsiders and the consolidation of Hitler's dictatorship, 1933-1939 / Robert Gellately -- 'Soldiers of the home front': jurists and legal terror during the Second World War / Nikolaus Wachsmann -- Germans, Slavs and the burden of work in rural southern Germany during the Second World War / Jill Stephenson -- Did Hitler miss his change in 1940? / Ian Kershaw -- Shoot first and ask questions afterwards? Wannsee and the unfolding of the Final Solution / Mark Roseman -- Auschwitz and the Germans: history, knowledge and memory / Norbert Frei.