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The Third Reich in history and memory / Richard J. Evans.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: DD256.48 .E93 2015 c. 1

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    "In the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans, the acclaimed author of the Third Reich trilogy, offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in recent years. Drawing on his most notable writings from the last two decades, Evans reveals the shifting perspectives on Nazism's rise to political power, its economic intricacies, and its subterranean extension into postwar Germany. Evans considers how the Third Reich is increasingly viewed in a broader international context, as part of the age of imperialism; discusses the growing emphasis on the larger economic and cultural circumstances of the era; and emphasizes the development of research into Nazi society, particularly in the understanding of Nazi Germany as a political system based on popular approval and consent. Exploring the complex relationship between memory and history, Evans also points out the places where the growing need to confront the misdeeds of Nazism and expose the complicity of those who participated has led to crude and sweeping condemnation, when instead historians should be making careful distinctions. Written with Evans' sharp-eyed insight and characteristically compelling style, these essays offer a summation of the collective cultural memory of Nazism in the present, and suggest the degree to which memory must be subjected to the close scrutiny of history"-- Provided by publisher.

    "Since the end of the twentieth century, our understanding of Nazi Germany has been transformed in a variety of ways. In this collected volume, Richard J. Evans offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in the last two decades.The essays, drawn from Evans' writings over the last two decades, move from the genesis of Nazism, through its rise to political power and its economic and political intricacies, to postwar Germany, considering at each point the suppression, reappropriation, and survival of memory. Evans also explores the 'global turn' in historical studies in recent years, revealing how it has broadened our understanding of the Third Reich in an international context; considers the development of research in the area of Nazi society, particularly in the understanding of Nazi Germany as a political system based on popular approval and consent; and discusses the growing focus on postwar Germany and its subterranean continuities with the Nazi era"-- Provided by publisher.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Evans, Richard J., author.
    Published
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
    Locale
    Germany
    Contents
    PART I. REPUBLIC AND REICH
    Blueprint for genocide?
    Imagining empire
    The defeat of 1918
    Walther Rathenau
    Berlin in the twenties
    Social outsiders
    PART II. INSIDE NAZI GERMANY
    Coercion and consent
    The 'People's Community'
    Was Hitler ill?
    Adolf and Eva
    PART III. THE NAZI ECONOMY
    Economic recovery
    The People's Car
    The Arms of Krupp
    The fellow-traveller
    PART IV. FOREIGN POLICY
    Hitler's ally
    Towards war
    Nazis and diplomats
    PART V: VICTORY AND DEFEAT
    Fateful choices
    Engineers of victory
    The food of war
    Defeat out of victory
    Decline and fall
    PART VI. THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE
    Empire, race and war
    Was the 'Final Solutiom' unique?
    Europe's killing fields
    PART VII. AFTERMATH
    The other horror
    Urban utopias
    Art in time of war.
    Notes
    "First published in Great Britain by Little, Brown Book Group."
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    PART I. REPUBLIC AND REICH -- Blueprint for genocide? -- Imagining empire -- The defeat of 1918 -- Walther Rathenau -- Berlin in the twenties -- Social outsiders -- PART II. INSIDE NAZI GERMANY -- Coercion and consent -- The 'People's Community' -- Was Hitler ill? -- Adolf and Eva -- PART III. THE NAZI ECONOMY -- Economic recovery -- The People's Car -- The Arms of Krupp -- The fellow-traveller -- PART IV. FOREIGN POLICY -- Hitler's ally -- Towards war -- Nazis and diplomats -- PART V: VICTORY AND DEFEAT -- Fateful choices -- Engineers of victory -- The food of war -- Defeat out of victory -- Decline and fall -- PART VI. THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE -- Empire, race and war -- Was the 'Final Solutiom' unique? -- Europe's killing fields -- PART VII. AFTERMATH -- The other horror -- Urban utopias -- Art in time of war.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780190228392
    0190228393
    Physical Description
    ix, 483 pages ; 25 cm

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