The Penguin historical atlas of the Third Reich
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The Penguin historical atlas of the Third Reich
Penguin, 1996
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Historical atlas of the Third Reich
Available at 14 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-136) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Formally inaugurated in Potsdam in 1933, the Third Reich was regarded by Hitler as the greatest in a line of mighty German empires. His mystical belief that this empire would last a 1000 years proved unfounded, but not before a world war which resulted in the loss of at least 60 million lives. This atlas charts the rise and fall of Hitler's Nazi state, from the first mass meeting of the NSDAP in Munich in 1920, through the relentless territorial aggression and anti-Jewish atrocities of World War II, to the execution of war criminals in Nuremburg in 1946. It offers insights into the seemingly inexorable rise of National Socialism and examines the nature of Hitler's power structures both within his party and within Germany as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Part I From war to Third Reich 1918-1933: Weimar Germany
- the Versailles Settlement
- the German slump
- the Nazi Party before 1933
- the legal path to power. Part II Establishing the dictatorship: the organization of authority
- the Nazi Party I - a parallel state
- the Nazi Party II - enforcing consensus
- the economic revival
- the structure of repression
- race and racism in the 1930s
- industry and labour in the Third Reich
- farming in the Third Reich
- culture and education
- constructing the new Germany. Part III Foreign policy in Germany 1933-1939: overturning Versailles 1933-1936
- the Nazi Party abroad
- bloodless conquests 1938-1939
- autarky and rearmament
- the greater German Reich 1939. Part IV Expansion and war 1939-1945: the onset of war 1939
- the conquest of Europe
- operation Barbarossa
- Germany's war at sea
- the turn of the tide 1942-1944
- Germany's war in the air
- the defeat of the Reich 1944-1945
- Part V The German new order: German rule in Europe
- planning the post-war order
- allies, collaborators and imitators
- exploitation and plunder
- resistance and terror in Europe
- genocide. Part VI German society and total war: mobilizing for total war
- the rise of the SS
- the impact of bombing
- resistance, terror and collapse. Part VII The aftermath: occupation and state formation
- the costs and consequences of defeat
- the survival of Neo-Nazism.
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