A: At War, Abroad and at Home: The Essential Features of German
Society in the Second World WarJörg Echternkamp:
1: 'War on Two Fronts'
2: A Coherent War Society?
3: Violence Given Free Reign
4: Principles for and Structure of the Volumes
PART 1: RULE, DESTROY, SURVIVE
B: The NSDAP, the War, and German SocietyArmin Nolzen:
1: Pre-war Structure and Functions of the NSDAP
2: Mobilizing the Troops and Moulding Minds and Behaviour at Home
(September 1939 to April 1941)
3: 'People Management' on the Home Front (May 1941 to July
1943)
4: On the Road to Total War (August 1943 to May 1945)
5: The NSDAP and the Volksgemeinschaft
C: Slaves for the 'Home Front'. War Society and Concentration
CampsKarola Fings:
1: Public Awareness of the Concentration Camps
2: The Initial Stages of Prisoner Deployment
3: Urban Satellite Contentration Camps
4: The Camps and German Society
5: Concentration Camps Anchored in German Society
D. Decisions to Murder and to Lie. German War Society and the
HolocaustTobias Jersak:
1: Introduction
2: Holocaust and War
3: Society and Holocaust in the War
4: Normality of the Unimaginable: War within the War
E. Wartime Daily Life and the Air War on the Home FrontRalf
Blank:
1: The Bombing War seen as an Historical Event
2: The War, as seen on the Home Front
3: 'Fully Serving the Defence Efforts': The Administration, Police,
and Courts
4: Coping with the Bombing War
5: Accommodation, Provisioning, and Replacement Homes
6: 'Revenge' and Miracle Weapons Propaganda
7: The 'Society in Disintegration', 1944/45
8: The Bombing War in Figures
PART II: THE UNIFORMED SOCIETY
Introduction to Part II
A. Ideological Warfare in Germany 1919 to 1945Jürgen Förster:
1: The Legacy of the First World War
2: The Politicization of the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht
3: Ideological Warfare in the Early, Victorious Phase
4: The War of Ideology and Annihilation in the East
5: Between Optimism and Defiance: War Fought Under
Military-Ideological Guidance
6: The Shock of Stalingrad and the Crisis of Military-Ideological
Guidance
7: The 'Führer Order' of 22 December 1943
8: Ideological Indoctrination and Personnel Selection
9: The Totalness of National Socialism after 20 July 1944
B. The Social Profile of the German Army's Combat Units
1939-1945Christoph Rass:
1: Principles and Prospects for Researching the Social Structures
of Wehrmacht Units
2: Changes in the Organizational Structure of the Army
3: Analysis of a Specimen Infantry Division
4: Results
C. Military Resistance Activities and the WarWinfried
Heinemann:
1: Resistance in German War Society
2: The Military Conspiracy. Military Motives for Resistance
3: The War as Crime
4: Communist Resistance During the War
5: The Battle with the Party and the SS
6: The Organization of the Coup D'Etat. General Staff Plans and the
Military Putsch
7: Resistance and Ending the War
8: Resistance Activities Unconnected with 20 July 1944
9: Efforts and Consequences
10: Mutiny or Moral Revulsion
Bibliography
Ralf Blank, M.A. (b. 1962). Studied history and classical and
prehistoric archaeology at Cologne and Bochum, as well as applied
and theoretical museology at Graz; curator and head of collections
and documentation department at the Historischen Centrum Hagen;
lecturer in modern and recent history at the Ruhr University at
Bochum; preparing a doctoral thesis on the home front and the
postwar period in Southern Westphalia (Prof. Norbert Frei);
Dr. Jörg Echternkamp (b. 1963). Studied science of history and
Romance studies at the University of Bielefeld, University of
Poitiers, and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA); on the
scientific staff of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt
[Research Institute for Military History], Potsdam; Dr. Karola
Fings (b. 1962). Studied history and German language and literature
at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; deputy director of
the National Socialism
Documentation Centre of the city of Cologne; lecturer at
University of Cologne; Dr. Jürgen Förster (b. 1940). Studied
English language and literature, philosophy, and history at
Nottingham and Cologne (Ph.D. 1974); several
visiting professorships, most recently as Miegunyah Distinguished
Fellow at the University of Melbourne; adjunct professor at
Freiburg University Col. Winfried Heinemann, Ph.D. (b.1956).
Studied history and English language and literature at the Ruhr
University, Bochum and at the Department of War Studies, King's
College,London; on the scientific staff of the
Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for
Military History], Potsdam; Tobias Jersak Ph.D. (b. 1972).
1999-2000
Research assistant to the defence in Irving vs. Lipstadt; 2000-2004
lecturer in history (University of Stuttgart) and church history
(University of Münster); published and edited several books and
articles
besides educational software on National Socialism, the Holocaust,
and Enlightenment thought; moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2005
where he is now working with street-children; Armin Nolzen M.A. (b.
1968). Studied science of history, German language and literature
(modern German literature), social science (political science), and
philosophy at the Ruhr University, Bochum; member of the editorial
board of Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus; member of
working group on
historical peace research; preparing a doctoral thesis on the
history of the NSDAP (Prof. Hans Mommsen); Dr. Christoph A. Rass,
(b. 1969). Studied economic and social history, modern history, and
information
science at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken; assistant
lecturer in the teaching and research department for economic and
social history at the RWTH [Rhineland-Westphalia Institute of
Technology] Aachen University;
Review from previous edition REVIEW OF OTHER VOLUMES IN SERIES
`'A meticulous, scholarly perspective on the conflict from
Germany's side'
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Max Hastings, Evening Standard
`'Brilliant analysis of how Germany fought its war''
Max Hastings, Evening Standard
`'authoritative and lavishly produced set of studies, co-authored
in the present case by a half-dozen of the Federal Republic's
leading military historians...Klink's over two-hundred-page summary
of the actual conduct of operations...is a model of its kind. The
translation reads flawlessly.'
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International History Review
`monumental study of Germany and the Second World War'
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Victor Rothwell, History
`It is a monumental work that provides extensive, copiously
annotated, and cartographically illustrated coverage of the
background, planning, and execution of the German attack and the
Soviet response...a volume that almost certainly is the closest
thing there ever will be to a definitively authoritative history of
the opening phase of the German campaign that represented a turning
point in the history of the war and of the world in the twentieth
century.
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World War Two Studies Association
`An indispensable new dimension is added to our understanding of
the conflict...describes events in ruthless detail from the view
point of the Third Reich
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The Evening Standard
`'I assure you all that it is worth every penny! This one volume
seems to be destined to become THE definitive study on the German
planning and invasion of the Societ Union for decades to come. The
wealth of detail and information included in this work is simply
staggering...I wholeheartedly recommend this book.'
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Axis Europa
``Should leave no doubt that the world's most distinguished company
of military historians is to be found in the Militärgeschichtliches
Forschungsamt.'
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American Historical Review
`'the latest volume of Germany and the Second World War slices open
the German war effort and examines the inner workings of war
administration, economy, and manpower resources...every page is
packed with a dense compilation of information and analysis...a
rigorous, academic analysis packed with information impossible to
find elsewhere in English, and it also forms an integral part of an
exceedingly important series of books about Germany's role in
the
world conflict. We can't recommend it to the casual reader, but it
certainly belongs on the shelf of every serious historian of World
War II as part of the ultimate autopsy of the German war
effort.'
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Stone & Stone
`By bringing out an English translation, OUP have put all scholars
of the war in their debt. If any volume can lay claim to being
definitive, this is surely it. The authors have read almost
unbelievably widely in the primary and secondary sources...it will
endure...an indispensable guide to the latest research on most key
aspects of the war ...the range and intellectual energy...will make
it an invaluable work of reference for undergraduate and
researchers...as valuable a commemoration of the war as any.'
Mark Mazower, History Today
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