UID:
edocfu_9959229744402883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 394 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-08957-9
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9786612089572
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0-300-14823-2
Content:
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography-and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism. Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1. 'Working towards the Führer': Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship --
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2. Ideologue and Propagandist: Hitler in Light of His Speeches, Writings and Orders, 1925-1928 --
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3. Improvised Genocide? The Emergence of the 'Final Solution' in the 'Warthegau' --
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4. Hitler's Role in the 'Final Solution' --
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5. The 'Everyday' and the 'Exceptional': The Shaping of Popular Opinion, 1933-1939 --
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6. German Popular Opinion during the 'Final Solution': Information, Comprehension, Reactions --
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7. Reactions to the Persecution of the Jews --
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8. Popular Opinion and the Extermination of the Jews --
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9. German Popular Opinion and the 'Jewish Question', 1939-1943: Some Further Reflections --
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10. Hitler and the Holocaust --
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11. 'Normality' and Genocide: The Problem of 'Historicization' --
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12. Shifting Perspectives: Historiographical Trends in the Aftermath of Unification --
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13. Hitler and the Uniqueness of Nazism --
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14. War and Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-12427-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300148237
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