A most dangerous book
Subtitle: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
By: Christopher B. Krebs
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780393062656
Subjects: Group identity
Description: Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Roman conquest of the Germanic myth; title: Survival and rescue; title: The birth of the German ancestors; title: Formative years; title: Heroes' songs; title: The Volk of free-spirited northerners; title: White blood; title: A bible for national socialists.