McDonough F. Hitler and Nazi Germany

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 162 p.The twelve years, from 1933 to 1945, when Adolf Hitler was dictator of Nazi Germany stand out as one of the most remarkable periods in the history of the twentieth century. In many books on this subject, the personality of Hitler is so dominant that significant political, social, economic and international developments often retreat into the background. In this book Frank McDonough explains the dramatic history of the Nazi period within a wider context, which not only takes account of Hitler's role, but also examines the broader dimensions of Nazi rule. By isolating key problem areas within current historical debates and by including a selection of primary source documents, this book provides a stimulating, authoritative and balanced introduction to the study of Hitler and Nazi Germany.Family background and early life
Hitler's Vienna years,
Hitler at war
The early growth of the Nazi Party
The Munich beer hall putsch
Hitler's ideology and aims
Hitler's rise to power, 1933-34
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The consolidation of power,
The Nazi state
The economy in Nazi Germany
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Property ownership
Law and order
The family
Education
Youth
Women
Propaganda
Health
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The church
The army and Foreign Office
Communist resistance
Industrial workers
University students ('White Rose Movement')
Youth protest
Humour
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Foreign policy: Hitler's road to war,
Hitler moves cautiously
German rearmament
The Spanish Civil War
Relations with Italy, Japan and Britain
The Hossbach memorandum
The Czech crisis
The Munich agreement
Poland under threat
The outbreak of the Second World War
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Hitler as war lord
The successful Nazi Blitzkrieg, 1939-40
The Battle of Britain, 1940
Hitler decides to attack the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa: the first phase, 22 June-December 1941
The German campaign in the Soviet Union, 1942-43
Military defeats for the Axis powers,
The attack in western Europe
The final assault on Nazi Germany, 1944-45
The last days of Hitler
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The development of antiSemitism
Jewish discrimination in Nazi Germany, 1933-37
The euthanasia programme,
The persecution of the Jews,
The movement towards the Final Solution
The transition to systematic extermination: mass shootings in the Soviet Union
The administration of death
The extermination camps
The broader dimensions of Nazi genocide
The singular fate of the Jews
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The problems of debate
Adolf Hitler: master of Nazi Germany
Foreign policy
A social revolution
The historians and the Nazi economy
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