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1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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Oxford illustrated histories.
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| Contents |
Cover; THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS; Introduction: The Third Reich; Hitlerâ#x80;#x99;s Role; The Dictatorshipâ#x80;#x99;s Use of Plebiscites and Elections; Nazismâ#x80;#x99;s Social Vision; War and Empire; I: The Weimar Republic and the Rise of National Socialism; The Radical Right in Post-War Bavaria and the Early Nazi Party; Crisis Year 1923; Relative Stabilization; The Great Depression and its Consequences; Who Supported the Nazis?; The Path to Power; 2: The Nazi â#x80;#x98;Seizure of Powerâ#x80;#x99;; The Dictatorship Takes Shape; â#x80;#x98;Revolutionâ#x80;#x99; and Violence; The Allure |
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Boycott, Censorship, and GleichschaltungThe End of Revolution; Stillborn Second Revolution and Consolidation; 3: Elections, Plebiscites, and Festivals; Participatory Traditions in the Dictatorship; Electoral Techniques; Mobilization and Modernity; Disciplinary Action, Complicity, Resistance; Political Festivals in the â#x80;#x98;Third Reichâ#x80;#x99;; The Nazisâ#x80;#x99; â#x80;#x98;Festival Calendarâ#x80;#x99;; FÃơhrer Myth and â#x80;#x98;National Communityâ#x80;#x99;: the Function of Political Festivals; 4: Architecture and the Arts; Architecture; The Visual and Plastic Arts; Music; Literature; Conclusions; 5: Photography and Cinema |
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Going to the Movies in the Third ReichGermans taking Photographs; The German War in the BIZ; The War at the Movies; German Soldiers Photograph the War; Other Encounters with Photography and Film; The Camera as Weapon; The Afterlife of Third Reich Photography and Film; 6: The Economy; Recovery; Self-sufficiency; Conquest; Struggling to Survive; 7: The Holocaust; Historiography; Origins; Judenpolitik; Mass Murder; Grey Zones; Motivations; Aftermath; 8: War and Empire; War; The German Empire; The Social Structure of Occupation; Life Under Occupation; Summary; 9: The Home Front; Introduction |
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Morale at Warâ#x80;#x99;s OutsetInitial Successes; Adjusting to Prolonged and Brutal Conflict; Drawing on the Resources of Occupied Europe: Food; Drawing on the Resources of Occupied Europe: Workers; Public Knowledge of Measures Against the Jews; Carrying on after Stalingrad; Women and War; Responding to Aerial Bombing; Growing Threats and Final Collapse; Conclusion; 10: Decline and Collapse; When did the War Become Unwinnable?; The Third Reich Reaches its Peak; War Comes to the Fatherland; The Changing Dictatorship; The Fatherland in Disarray; â#x80;#x98;Community of the Peopleâ#x80;#x99; on the Way to Collapse |
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The Imponderables of WarAPPENDIX: DAILY INMATE NUMBERS IN THE SS CONCENTRATION CAMPS, 1934-45; FURTHER READING; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM; CHAPTER 2: THE NAZI â#x80;#x98;SEIZURE OF POWERâ#x80;#x99;; CHAPTER 3: ELECTIONS, PLEBISCITES, AND FESTIVALS; CHAPTER 4: ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS; GENERAL; ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN; VISUAL ARTS (INCLUDING PLUNDERING); MUSIC; LITERATURE; THEATRE AND DANCE; CHAPTER 5: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMA; CHAPTER 6: THE ECONOMY; CHAPTER 7: THE HOLOCAUST; CHAPTER 8: WAR AND EMPIRE; CHAPTER 9: THE HOME FRONT |
| 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.00This 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 distils our ideas about the period and provides a balanced and accessible account of the whole era |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index |
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Print version record |
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National socialism.
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Soldiers -- Germany
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National Socialism.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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History.
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National socialism
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Social conditions
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Soldiers
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Drittes Reich
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History.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054658
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Germany
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gellately, Robert, 1943- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191044014 |
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0191044016 |
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