Nazi Germany (eBook)

CATHERINE EPSTEIN is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History at Amherst College. She is the prize-winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010). Her previous publications also include The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993).

List of Illustrations viii

Preface x

1 Germany before 1933 1

2 Hitler and the Nazi Movement 21

3 The Nazi Party-State 45

4 The Racial State 69

5 Nazi Germany in the 1930s: A Popular Regime? 97

6 War and Occupation, 1939-1941 123

7 Genocide 149

8 Total War, 1942-1945 179

Epilogue 211

Abbreviations and Glossary 223

Timeline 225

Index 229

"Among the many textbooks on Nazi Germany Catherine Epstein's
stands out both because of its persuasive combination of the most
recent research on this subject interwoven with judicious
discussions of continuing debates on unresolved historiographical
questions and because of the skillful ways in which she draws the
reader into this complex field. Students and teachers in advanced
secondary as well as higher education will also find this book to
be the best short guide to the history of the Nazi
Holocaust."

--V.R. Berghahn, Columbia University

"Drawing on the very latest scholarship, Catherine Epstein
offers a lucidly written, accessible, engaging account of Hitler
and the Third Reich. Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths is
an ideal choice for the undergraduate classroom and will likely be
the text that introduces many, many students to this most
troubling chapter of modern German history."

--Robert Moeller, University of California, Irvine