Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 395 pages)
ISBN:
9781538180907
Content:
"How many people know that Hitler was writing an opera when he lived in Vienna or how he developed his antisemitic outlook while living there? Who has ever heard about Hitler's "second book," in which he revealed his major foreign policy plans, a manuscript that remained secret? How many realize that Hitler's regime planned on replacing Christianity with its own "religion" and substituting Mein Kampf for the Bible? Why did Hitler name his regime the "Third" Reich, and why did he choose the swastika as its logo? Why did the fine arts enjoy such an honored status during the Reich? What were the lesser-known original purposes of the concentration camp system established in Germany just weeks after Hitler seized power? All these questions and many more are addressed by a WWII tour director of thirty-five years in Exposing the Reich. The book illuminates how the devastation and tragedy of the war and the concurrent genocide could happen, examining the lethal blend of inciting hatred, ongoing indoctrination, justification for drastic action and the complete control of all media"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Adolf Hitler's humble beginnings : mystery and scandal -- Vienna and the roots of Hitler's antisemitism -- The Great War : from hope to defeat -- The failure of democracy -- From soldier to Führer -- Hitler's swift rise to power -- Germany's economic recovery : miracle or ruse? -- Hitler and the arts : culture as propaganda -- Antisemitic propaganda -- The German "people's community" -- Racial hygiene for the master race -- Hitler : actor and orator -- Hitler in "his" mountains -- Mass events and the art of propaganda -- Third Reich cinema : indoctrination through entertainment -- Volk Ohne Raum and other justifications for war -- One crown for two empires : Hitler and The First Reich -- Policing the Reich -- Persecution -- Extermination -- Resisting the Reich -- Hitler's secret book : the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf -- Did occultism play a role in the Third Reich? -- Religion in the Reich : the battle of the two crosses -- The Third Reich : a new Rome? -- Women in the Reich -- The hidden face of Eva Braun -- How Nazified were the Germans during the Third Reich? -- Neo-Nazis in Germany? : how have Germans changed since 1945?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538180891
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Harper, David Ray, - 1953- Exposing the Reich Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2023 ISBN 9781538180891
Language:
English
Author information:
Harper, David 1953-
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