The National Socialist leadership and total war, 1941-5
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The National Socialist leadership and total war, 1941-5
St. Martin's Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-316) and index
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Description
This volume demonstrates that, contrary to widely held current opinion, Germany was organized for and committed to total war to an extent not usually recognized. Dr Hancock studies the concepts of total war, and the policies and attitudes of the National Socialist leadership to mobilizing the German economy and society for World War II. The author examines four leaders: Martin Bormann - Secretary to Hitler, Joseph Goebbels - Propaganda Minister, Heinrich Himmler - Reichsfuehrer-SS, and Albert Speer - Minister for Armaments. Their policies are examined in both an ideological and economic context against the background of the German war effort, and it is shown that these leaders did support total war and strove to implement it. The theory of "total work" as a 20th-century concept is also explored.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and German Terms - List of Less Well-Known Leaders - Introduction - 'Redressing the Sins of the Generation of 1918': Total War and the Path to the World War - 'Dangerous Illusions'? (1941-2) - The Dreier Ausschuss and the Response to Stalingrad - Overcoming the Fuhrer Crisis? - 'Ideological Renovation' (July-December 1943) - The Lull Before the Storm (January-June 1944) - Hitler 'Sees Reason' (July 1944) - Men versus Weapons: Goebbels as Plenipotentiary for Total War - 'A Nation in Arms'? (1945) - Conclusion - Appendices - Note on Sources - Abbreviations Used in Notes - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index
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