Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Name: Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
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ISBN: 9780300151275

ISBN-10: 0300151276

ISBN-13: 9780300151275

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ian Kershaw

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This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sectionsHitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiographyand Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism. Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 6/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.96" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ian Kershaw is professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield.



Introduction



Hitler and the Final Solution



'Working towards the Fuhrer': Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship



Ideologue and Propagandist: Hitler in Light of His Speeches, Writings and Orders, 1925-1928



Improvised Genocide? The Emergence of the 'Final Solution' in the 'Warthegau'



Hitler's Role in the 'Final Solution'



Popular Opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany



The 'Everyday' and the 'Exceptional': The Shaping of Popular Opinion, 1933-1939



German Popular Opinion during the 'Final Solution': Information, Comprehension, Reactions



Reactions to the Persecution of the Jews



Popular Opinion and the Extermination of the Jews



German Popular Opinion and the 'Jewish Question', 1939-1943: Some Further Reflections



The Final Solution in Historiography



Hitler and the Holocaust



'Normality' and Genocide: The Problem of 'Historicization'



Shifting Perspectives: Historiographical Trends in the Aftermath of Unification



The Uniqueness of Nazism



Hitler and the Uniqueness of Nazism



War and Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe


Acknowledgments


Index