Hitler's War Aims Ideology, the Nazi State, and the Course of Expansion

Name: Hitler's War Aims Ideology, the Nazi State, and the Course of Expansion
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ISBN: 9780393008029

ISBN-10: 0393008029

ISBN-13: 9780393008029

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Norman Rich

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In this volume Norman Rich shows how Hitler's policies followed his blueprint of expansion, outlined in Mein Kampf and based mainly on racial ideology, until political and military necessities, real and imagined, drove him to war against nations that played no part in his ideological programme. After an introduction that places Hitler and the Nazi regime in the perspective of German history, Professor Rich relates Hitler's actual theories to the rise of the Nazi state and the development of a system of men and institutions dedicated to carrying out the Fuhrer's orders. This system was to provide the machinery of expansion that becomes the focus of this study, as the spread of the Nazis is…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Photographs


List of Maps


Preface


Introduction The Historical Background



The Ideology of Expansion



Hitler, the Party, and the State



The Attainment and Consolidation of Power



The Instruments of Control: the National Socialist Party



The Instruments of Control: the State



The Instruments of Control: Racial Offices



The Instruments of Control: the Economy



The Control of Power



The Period of Preparation



Expansion in the Name of Self-Determination



From Self - Determination to Lebensraum



The War for Lebensraum: the Attack on Poland



Security in the North: the Attack on Denmark and Norway



Security in the West: the Attack on France and the Low Countries



The Problem of Britain



Security in the Southwest: Spain and North Africa



Security in the Southeast: Hungary and the Balkans



The Final Drive for Lebensraum: the Attack on Russia



The Japanese Alliance



Hitler's Declaration of War on the United States


Culmination


A Note on the Spelling


Abbreviations


Biographical Sketches


Notes


Bibliography


Index