Reevaluating the Third Reich / edited by Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan ; foreword by Charles S. Maier.

Based on presentations at a conference in Philadelphia in 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Normality" and genocide / Ian Kershaw -- Enforcing racial policy in Nazi Germany / Robert Gellately -- Eugenics, gender, and ethics in Nazi Germany / Claudia Koonz -- Reflections on the position of Hitler and Göring in the Third Reich / Hans Mommsen -- National socialism and the theory of the state / Jane Caplan -- Innovation and conservatism in economic recovery / Harold James -- Rationalizing industrial relations / Tilla Siegel -- The domestic dynamics of Nazi conquests / Tim Mason -- Polycracy and policy in the Third Reich / Peter Hayes -- Beyond "intentionalism" and functionalism" / Christopher R. Browning -- The genesis of the "Final Solution" from the spirit of science / Detlev J.K. Peukert.