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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction--'An Extraordinary Rape of the Soul': National Socialism, Political Religions and Totalitarianism | |
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| The Weimar Republic and the National Socialist German Workers' Party, 1918-1933 | |
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| The Great War and its Aftermath | |
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| The Political Parties and Weimar Society | |
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| The Oddity's Odyssey | |
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| Among the Believers | |
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| Mass Unemployment | |
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| Staring Failure in the Face | |
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| 'Miss Becker, Your Head is at Stake, Your Head is Wobbling': the Demise of the Rule of Law | |
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| Smart Company | |
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| Healthy Popular Instinct | |
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| Policeman's Ball | |
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| Dark Side of the Moon | |
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| Gracelands | |
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| Replacing the Bridge: New Times, New Man | |
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| Faith, Hope and Even a Little Charity Too | |
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| The Politics of Self-Righteousness | |
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| Workers' Paytime or Playtime? | |
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| The Brown Cult and the Christians | |
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| Aggression and Victimhood | |
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| Living in a Land with no Future: German Jews and their Neighbours, 1933-1939 | |
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| Conflicting Signs | |
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| Pogrom | |
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| 'Extinguishing the Ideas of Yesterday': Eugenics and 'Euthanasia' | |
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| Breeding the Best? | |
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| Medicalised Mass Murder | |
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| 'The Dane is Not a Pole, but Rather a Teuton': Occupation and Collaboration in Europe, 1939-1943 | |
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| Invisible Men? | |
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| 'Europe for the Europeans' | |
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| East, West and the Balkans | |
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| A Blitzkrieg Too Far? the German Invasion and Occupation of the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 | |
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| 'See You Again in Siberia' | |
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| Crimes without War | |
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| Other People's Wars | |
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| 'Iron Times, Iron Brooms': Racial War Against the Jews | |
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| Expulsion and Repatriation | |
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| The Vision Unfolds Against Soviet Jews | |
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| The Vision Completed: The Continent-wide Holocaust | |
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| 'When God Wills it, Even a Broom Can Shoot' (Russian Proverb): Resistance in Germany, 1933-1945 | |
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| The Left Recovers and Makes New Friends | |
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| The Thrill of 'Energetic Primitiveness' and the Right | |
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| The Generals Who Dithered | |
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| Class and History | |
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| Hour of Destiny for the Colonels | |
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| Men of God | |
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| 'Playing a Part in a Film': War and Peace, 1943-1948 | |
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| The American Century | |
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| When the Russians Came | |
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| Beneath the Bombs | |
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| Killing the Jews at all Costs | |
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| Birth of the Myth | |
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| Making Peace | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |