- Summary
- In this groundbreaking history, Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi war machine and its undoing. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics--it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European empire strong enough to take on the United States. But as this book makes clear, Hitler's armies were never powerful enough to beat either Britain or the Soviet Union--and Hitler never had a serious plan as to how he might defeat the United States. An eye-opening and controversial account that will challenge conventional interpretations of the period.--From publisher description.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Tooze, Adam, 1967-
- Published
- New York : Viking, 2007
- Locale
- Germany
- Edition
- First American edition
- Contents
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Recovery
'Every worker his work'
Breaking away
Partners: The regime and German business
Volksgemeinschaft on a budget
Saving the peasants
War in Europe
1936: Four years to war
Into the danger zone
1939: Nothing to gain by waiting
Going for broke: the first winter of war
Victory in the West - Sieg im Westen
Britain and American: Hitler's strategic dilemma
World War
Preparing for two wars on once
The grand strategy of racial war
December 1941: turning point
Labour, food and genocide
Albert Speer: 'miracle man'
No room for doubt
Disintegration
The end.
- Notes
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Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-773) and index.
Recovery -- 'Every worker his work' -- Breaking away -- Partners: The regime and German business -- Volksgemeinschaft on a budget -- Saving the peasants -- War in Europe -- 1936: Four years to war -- Into the danger zone -- 1939: Nothing to gain by waiting -- Going for broke: the first winter of war -- Victory in the West - Sieg im Westen -- Britain and American: Hitler's strategic dilemma -- World War -- Preparing for two wars on once -- The grand strategy of racial war -- December 1941: turning point -- Labour, food and genocide -- Albert Speer: 'miracle man' -- No room for doubt -- Disintegration -- The end.