CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

1 The Nazi rise to power, 1918–23: from the end of the First World War to the Munich Putsch

2 The Nazi rise to power, 1924–33: from the Munich Putsch to Hitler’s appointment as Reich Chancellor

3 Who voted Nazi? And why?

4 Bringing Germany into line

5 The revolution eats its own children: the destruction of the SA

6 Economic transformation, or smoke and mirrors? The Nazi impact on the German economy, 1933–9

7 Reluctant supporters, or sullen opponents? The German workers

8 The betrayed middle class?

9 The persecution of German Jews in the 1930s

10 ‘Racial hygiene’ in the 1930s

11 The Nazi impact on society: young people and education

12 The Nazi impact on society: women in the Third Reich

13 The Nazi impact on society: the Christian Church

14 The Nazi impact on society: the control of ideas

15 Germany and the world, 1933–9

16 Nazi Germany, 1933–9: a popular dictatorship?

17 The Third Reich at war: the unstoppable  Blitzkrieg, 1939–41

18 ‘The twisted road to Auschwitz’: from persecution  to genocide

19 The Third Reich at war: the home front

20 The German resistance

21 The Third Reich at war: from conquest to Götterdämmerung

22 The legacy of the Third Reich

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

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