{"product_id":"a-companion-to-nazi-germany-isbn-9781118936887","title":"A Companion to Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was the “Final Solution” the motivation for the Third Reich’s rise to power, or simply the outcome?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Nazi Germany\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party’s emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era’s lasting legacy, this book offers an in-depth examination of modern history’s most infamous reign.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAssesses the historiography of Nazism and the prehistory of the regime\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides deep insight into labor, education, research, and home life amidst the Third Reich’s ideological imperatives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes how the Third Reich affected business, the economy, and the culture, including sports, entertainment, and religion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDelves into the social militarization in the lead-up to war, and examines the social and historical complexities that allowed genocide to take place\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how modern-day Germany confronts and deals with its recent history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday’s political climate highlights the critical need to understand how radical nationalist movements gain an audience, then followers, then power. While historical analogy can be a faulty basis for analyzing current events, there is no doubt that examining the parallels can lead to some important questions about the present. Exploring key motivations, environments, and cause and effect, this book provides essential perspective as radical nationalist movements have once again reemerged in many parts of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus‐Christian W. Szejnmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Theories, Background, and Contexts 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeoff Eley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Organic Modernity: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKonrad H. Jarausch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The First World War and National Socialism 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Ziemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelley Baranowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 National Socialist Ideology 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaus‐Christian W. Szejnmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Structures of Nazi Rule 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmin Nolzen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Work(ers) Under the Swastika 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJens‐Uwe Guettel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Resistance 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetlef Schmiechen‐Ackermann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Centre and Periphery 147\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Schaarschmidt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Information Policies and Linguistic Violence 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Pegelow Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Education, Schooling, and Camps 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiran Klaus Patel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Research and Scholarship 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Gruttner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Nazi Morality 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Kuhne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The German Home Front Under the Bombs 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Overy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSven Keller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Economy and Culture 263\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Nazi Economy 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen G. Gross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 National Socialism and German Business 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKim Christian Priemel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany 299\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePamela E. Swett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Gender 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Religion 333\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManfred Gailus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Family and Private Life 351\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Pine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Sports 367\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank Becker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Cinema, Art, and Music 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Muhlenfeld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Emotions and National Socialism 399\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Przyrembel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Environment 413\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles E. Closmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Race, Imperialism, and Genocide 429\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Terror 431\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDieter Pohl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Flight and Exile 449\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Dwork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Germany and the Outside World 465\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLars Ludicke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933–1939 483\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJorg Echternkamp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Race 499\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsabel Heinemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Unfree and Forced Labour 517\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarc Buggeln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 ‘Ethnic Germans’ 533\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexa Stiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Ghettos 551\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Low\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Holocaust Studies: The Spatial Turn 565\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWendy Lower\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Legacies of Nazism 581\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Memories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany 583\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAleida Assmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Remembering National Socialism in the German Democratic Republic 599\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Presenting and Teaching the Past 615\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarl Heinrich Pohl and Astrid Schwabe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 631\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Overall this is a rich and stimulating essay companion, well worth dipping into as an introduction to state-of-the-art scholarship, and with a remarkable amount to offer for university teachers and students taking modules on this period.”\u003cbr\u003eReviewer: \u003cb\u003eMatthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University, UK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShelley Baranowski\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Akron, Ohio. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArmin Nolzen,\u003c\/b\u003e M.A., is a member of the editorial board of the \"Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaus-Christian W. Szejnmann\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern History at Loughborough University.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO nazi germany\u003c\/b\u003e\t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate has wrestled with multiple and complex issues. Did Nazism result from Germany's long-term pathological development, or was it the most extreme outcome of European modernity? Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was antisemitism the driving force behind Nazism and to what extent did it mobilize the Third Reich? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Nazi Germany\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party's emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era's lasting legacy, this book offers an in-depth examination of modern history's most infamous reign. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Assesses the historiography of Nazism and the prehistory of the regime\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Provides deep insight into labor, education, research, and home life amidst the Third Reich's ideological imperatives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Describes how the Third Reich affected business, the economy, and the culture, including sports, entertainment, and religion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Delves into the social militarization in the lead-up to war, and examines the social and historical complexities that allowed genocide to take place\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Shows how modern-day Germany confronts and deals with its recent history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday's political climate highlights the critical need to understand how radical nationalist movements gain an audience, then followers, then power. While historical analogy can be a faulty basis for analyzing current events, there is no doubt that examining the parallels can lead to some important questions about the present. Exploring key motivations, environments, and cause and effect, this book provides essential perspective as radical nationalist movements have once again reemerged in many parts of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988612595941,"sku":"NP9781118936887","price":221.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118936887.jpg?v=1761780971","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-nazi-germany-isbn-9781118936887","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}