Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition. Chronology. Introduction: the Problems of Writing About National Socialism 1. Fascism and the Conservative Tradition: Fascist Ideology, Constituency, and Conditions for its Growth 2. The Problem of German Unity: Absolutism and Particularism 3. The German Empire: the Containment of Democracy, Social Imperialism, and the Road to War 4. Germanic Ideology: Nationalism, Vulgarized Idealism, and Antisemitism 5. The First World War: the Crisis of Imperial Germany 6. The Weimar Republic and the Weakness of Liberal Democracy 7. The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis 8. The Nazi Consolidation of Power, 1933 – 1934 9. Economy, Society, and the State in the Third Reich 10. Education, Culture, Religion, and Eugenics in the Third Reich 11. Persecution of the Jews, 1933 – 1939 12. The Origins of the Second World War 13. The Second World War: From European to Global war, 1939 1941 14. The Second World War: From Triumph to Defeat, 1942 – 1945 15. The Holocaust 16. Continuities and New Beginnings: the Aftermath of National Socialism and War 17. The Historians` Debate: the Place of Hitler`s Reich in German History and Memory. Select Bibliography

Reviews

Stackelberg's engrossing narrative history deserves a wide readership. . . Stackelberg cogently argues that Nazi rule was generally maintained by popular consensus rather than by coercion. . . Combining dispassionate analysis with dramatic writing, he provides historical context for Third Reich barbarism by boldly delineating a pre-history of Nazism . . . Stackelberg ably covers the Nuremberg trials, German denazification and the contemporary resurgence of militant neo-Nazi fringe groups. . . . gives readers a superb historical synthesis.