A Concise History of Nazi Germany
Joseph W. Bendersky
Language: English
Pages: 270
ISBN: 1442222697
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Bendersky offers an authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now in its fourth edition, the book incorporates significant research of recent years, analysis of the politics of memory, postwar German controversies about World War II and the Nazi era, and more on non-Jewish victims. Delving into the complexity of social life within the Nazi state, it also reemphasizes the crucial role played by racial ideology in determining the policies and practices of the Third Reich. Bendersky paints a fascinating picture of how average citizens negotiated their way through both the threatening power behind certain Nazi policies and the strong enticements to acquiesce or collaborate. His classic treatment provides an invaluable overview of a subject that retains its historical significance and contemporary importance.
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Fog (1955). Even more disturbing are images of mass suffering and death captured by American and British cameramen upon discovering the camps in 1945. This nauseating evidence of Nazi plans and actions for the systematic murder of millions is made available through a Frontline special under the title Memory of the Camps (2005). The 1963 trial of twenty-two SS men in a German court for perpetrating such crimes is powerfully recreated in the 1993 documentary Verdict at Auschwitz. Wartime Germany.
And arguments in the standard book on the subject, Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS (New York: Ballantine Books, 1971), have been expanded in important ways by Robert L. Koehl, The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983); Herbert F. Ziegler, Nazi Germany’s New Aristocracy, the SS Leadership 1925–1939 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989); George C. Browder, Hitler’s Enforcers:.
With nationalism. I can love Germany and hate capitalism.” One poster showed a huge Nazi demolishing the stock exchange, on which was written “International High Finance.” The Nazis also exploited the basic needs of the lower classes. Beneath the words “Work and Bread” on one poster, there was a Nazi handing tools into the desperate arms of the unemployed. Another poster depicted a depressing scene of a crowd of poor and unemployed with the caption “Our Last Hope: Hitler.” At the same time, the.
State legislatures and could deviate from the state constitutions. A “Second Law for the Coordination of the States with the Reich” of April 7 further empowered Hitler to appoint Reich commissars to oversee state governments. For all practical purposes, state governments were no longer autonomous, and resistance from state governments became impossible. The Nazis legalized the purge of the bureaucracy they had started earlier. A new civil service law abolished the security of tenure for.
General Government; those who were left in the annexed territories existed only as workers for the Reich. Germanization also included the institution of German laws and language, as well as the resettlement in the annexed area of several hundred thousand ethnic Germans from other occupied territories. The Poles in the General Government were to be dealt with later. Meanwhile, this area became a dumping ground for those, especially Jews, that the Nazis found undesirable. But even here, the.