Baranowski Shelley, Nolzen Armin, Szejnmann Claus-Christian (eds.) A companion to Nazi Germany

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 680 p. — ISBN10: 1118936884; ISBN13: 978-1118936887 — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History)For 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? A Companion to Nazi Germany 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. Assesses the historiography of Nazism and the prehistory of the regime; provides deep insight into labor, education, research, and home life amidst the Third Reich’s ideological imperatives; describes how the Third Reich affected business, the economy, and the culture, including sports, entertainment, and religion; delves into the social militarization in the lead-up to war, and examines the social and historical complexities that allowed genocide to take place; shows how modern-day Germany confronts and deals with its recent history; today’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.Introduction. Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian W. SzejnmannTheories, Background, and ContextsHow Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography. Geoff Eley
Organic Modernity: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism. Konrad H. Jarausch
The First World War and National Socialism. Benjamin Ziemann
The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System. Shelley Baranowski
National Socialist Ideology. Claus-Christian W. SzejnmannStructures of Nazi RuleThe NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions. Armin Nolzen
Work(ers) Under the Swastika. Jens-Uwe Guettel
Resistance. Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann
Centre and Periphery. Thomas Schaarschmidt
Information Policies and Linguistic Violence. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Education, Schooling, and Camps. Kiran Klaus Patel
Research and Scholarship. Michael Grüttner
Nazi Morality. Thomas Kühne
The German Home Front Under the Bombs. Richard Overy
Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism. Sven KellerEconomy and CultureThe Nazi Economy. Stephen G. Gross
National Socialism and German Business. Kim Christian Priemel
Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany. Pamela E. Swett
Gender. Elizabeth Harvey
Religion. Manfred Gailus
Family and Private Life. Lisa Pine
Sports. Frank Becker
Cinema, Art, and Music. Daniel Mühlenfeld
Emotions and National Socialism. Alexandra Przyrembel
Environment. Charles E. ClosmannRace, Imperialism, and GenocideTerror. Dieter Pohl
Flight and Exile. Debórah Dwork
Germany and the Outside World. Lars Lüdicke
Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933–1939. Jörg Echternkamp
Race. Isabel Heinemann
Unfree and Forced Labour. Marc Buggeln
'Ethnic Germans’. Alexa Stiller
Ghettos. Andrea Löw
Holocaust Studies: The Spatial Turn. Wendy LowerLegacies of NazismMemories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany. Aleida Assmann
Remembering National Socialism in the German Democratic Republic. David Clarke
Presenting and Teaching the Past. Karl Heinrich Pohl and Astrid Schwabe