The Third Reich : the essential readings / edited by Christian Leitz ; advisory editor, Harold James.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Rise of the NSDAP: Conclusion to Hitler's Followers / Detlef Mühlberger -- 2: Seizure and Consolidation of Power: Towards Dictatorship: Germany 1930 to 1934 / Albrecht Tyrell -- 3: Foreign Policy: The Structure of Nazi Foreign Policy 1933-1945 / Hans-Adolf Jacobsen -- 4: Economy: Germany, 'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939 / Richard J. Overy -- 5: Army: Soldiers, Nazis and War in the Third Reich / Omer Bartov -- 6: Working Class and Volksgemeinschaft: The Appeal of Exterminating 'Others': German Workers and the Limits of Resistance / Alf Lüdtke -- 7: Police State: Surveillance and Disobedience: Aspects of the Political Policing of Nazi Germany / Robert Gellately -- 8: Women: Victims or Perpetrators? Controversies about the Role of Women in the Nazi State / Adelheid von Saldern -- 9: Hitler as Dictator: 'Working Towards the Fuhrer.' Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship / Ian Kershaw -- 10: Resistance: German Society and the Resistance against Hitler, 1933-1945 / Hans Mommsen -- 11: Holocaust/'Final Solution': Nazi Resettlement Policy and the Search for a Solution to the Jewish Question, 1939-1941 / Christopher Browning.