- Summary
- At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At that moment, Hitler appeared - however briefly - to be the most powerful ruler on the planet. Given this dramatic turn of events, it is little wonder that since 1945 generations of historians keep trying to explain how it all happened. This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the complex history of the Third Reich, from the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 to the final collapse in 1945. Using photographs, paintings, propaganda images, and a host of other such materials from a wide range of sources, including official documents, cinema, and the photography of contemporary amateurs, foreigners, and the Allied armies, it distills our ideas about the period and provides a balanced and accessible account of the whole era.
- Variant Title
- Third Reich
3rd Reich
- Series
- Oxford illustrated history
Oxford illustrated histories.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018
©2018
- Locale
- Germany
Deutschland
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Introduction: The Third Reich / Robert Gellately
Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism / Matthew Stibbe
Nazi "seizure of power" / Hermann Beck
Elections, plebiscites, and festivals / Hedwig Richter and Ralph Jessen
Architecture and the arts / Jonathan Petropoulos
Photography and cinema / David F. Crew
Economy / Peter Hayes
Holocaust / Omer Bartov
War and empire / Dieter Pohl
Home front / Julia S. Torrie
Decline and collapse / Robert Gellately
Appendix: Daily inmate numbers in the SS concentration camps, 1934-45.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gellately, Robert, 1943- editor.
Stibbe, Matthew, contributor.
Beck, Hermann, 1955- contributor.
Richter, Hedwig, contributor.
Jessen, Ralph, contributor.
Petropoulos, Jonathan, contributor.
Crew, David F., 1946- contributor.
Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7- contributor.
Bartov, Omer, contributor.
Pohl, Dieter, contributor.
Torrie, Julia S. (Julia Suzanne), 1973- contributor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index.
Introduction: The Third Reich / Robert Gellately -- Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism / Matthew Stibbe -- Nazi "seizure of power" / Hermann Beck -- Elections, plebiscites, and festivals / Hedwig Richter and Ralph Jessen -- Architecture and the arts / Jonathan Petropoulos -- Photography and cinema / David F. Crew -- Economy / Peter Hayes -- Holocaust / Omer Bartov -- War and empire / Dieter Pohl -- Home front / Julia S. Torrie -- Decline and collapse / Robert Gellately -- Appendix: Daily inmate numbers in the SS concentration camps, 1934-45.
