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| Publisher's acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Who's who | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Historical Debate | |
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| Can the Third Reich be 'historicised'? | |
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| Analysis | |
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| The Origins and Rise of National Socialism | |
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| The ideological roots | |
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| The Bismarckian Reich: an incubator of National Socialism? | |
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| The German revolution, 1918-19: a turning point that did not turn? | |
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| the formation of the NSDAP, 1919-24 | |
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| The renaissance of the Nazi Party, 1925-30 | |
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| Nazi voters, 1930-32 | |
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| The road to power, September 1930-January 1933 | |
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| The Legal Revolution and the Consolidation of Power, 1933-34 | |
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| The dissolution of the Reichstag and the election of 5 March 1933 | |
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| The 'revolution from below' and the Enabling Act | |
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| The process of Gleichschaltung | |
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| The churches | |
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| The defeat of the second revolution | |
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| State, Party and F�hrer: The Government of Nazi Germany, 1933-39 | |
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| Ministries and 'Supreme Reich Authorities', 1933-38 | |
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| Himmler and the SS state | |
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| The centralisation of the Reich | |
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| The civil service | |
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| The Party | |
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| The role of Hitler | |
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| The Economy, 1933-39 | |
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| Work creation and economic recovery, 1933-35 | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| The Mittelstand | |
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| Schacht and the financing of German rearmament | |
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| The Four Year Plan | |
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| The industrialists and the Four Year Plan: winners and losers | |
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| Rearmament and the German economy, 1937-39 | |
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| The People's Community: German Society and the Third Reich, 1933-39 | |
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| The work of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda | |
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| Education and youth | |
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| The peasantry | |
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| Women and the family | |
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| The workers | |
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| Policing the Volksgemeinschaft | |
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| The Hitler myth as a factor of integration | |
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| The Racial State | |
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| Nazi health and eugenic policies | |
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| The 'asocials' and homosexuals | |
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| Gypsies, part-Africans and the Slav minorities | |
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| The Jews | |
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| The Germans and the Jews | |
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| Foreign Policy, 1933-39 | |
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| Hitler's priorities, 1933-37 | |
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| The Anschluss | |
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| The destruction of Czechoslovakia | |
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| The Polish crisis and the outbreak of war | |
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| Germany, Europe and the World, 1939-45 | |
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| The British problem, 1940-41 | |
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| The decision to attack Soviet Russia | |
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| From European to world war, 1941-45 | |
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| Europe under German occupation, 1939-44 | |
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| 'Ethnic cleansing' and settlement policies in Eastern Europe | |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| The Home Front, 1939-45 | |
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| Disintegration of the F�hrer state | |
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| The increasing power of the Nazi Party and the SS | |
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| The war economy | |
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| Food supplies and rationing | |
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| Solving the labour crisis in the war industries | |
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| The impact of war on the German people, 1942-45 | |
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| The end of the Hitler regime | |
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| Postscript to the Third Reich: the D�nitz government | |
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| The German Opposition | |
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| Resistance and Resistenz | |
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| Opposition from the Churches | |
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| Opposition on the Left | |
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| The challenge of youth culture | |
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| Resistance by the military and conservative elites | |
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| The road to 20 July 1944 | |
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| Why was there no German revolution in 1945? | |
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| Assessment | |
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| The Third Reich in Retrospect | |
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| Hitler's rise to power | |
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| The Nazi regime | |
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| How 'modern' was the Third Reich? | |
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| The legacy of Nazi Germany | |
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| Documents | |
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| The nature of fascism | |
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| Hermann Rauschning on the aims of Nazism, 1938 | |
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| The party programme | |
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| Hitler's powers as an orator | |
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| Working within the constitution | |
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| Hitler as saviour | |
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| Why the Centre Party voted for the Enabling Bill | |
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| Goebbels and the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda | |
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| Hitler's speech to the Reichsstatthalter, 6 July 1933 | |
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| Hitler's plans for the army | |
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| Papen warns Hitler on 17 June 1934 | |
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| Hitler's lifestyle | |
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| 'Working towards the F�hrer' | |
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| A British view of Hitler | |
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| The number of unemployed (in millions) | |
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| The Four Year Plan | |
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| Achievements of the Four Year Plan, 1936-42 | |
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| Gross national product and military expenditure in Germany, the USA and Britain, 1933-45 | |
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| A Nazi history syllabus | |
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| The League of German Girls | |
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| Women's place in the Nazi state | |
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| Population statistics | |
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| The egalitarian state | |
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| 'Do-it-yourself' wage bargaining | |
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| Labour relations and the Gestapo | |
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| The impact of the 'Beauty of Labour' and 'Strength through Joy' schemes | |
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| Development of wages and cost of living index, 1929-40 | |
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| Average gross hourly earnings in selected industries, 1935-38 | |
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| Hitler on the racial state | |
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| Himmler's circular on the 'gypsy nuisance' | |
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| Hitler and the Jews | |
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| Hitler threatens the Jews with annihilation | |
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| Hitler's thinking on foreign policy in Mein Kampf | |
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| The Hossbach Memorandum | |
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| Hitler surveys the international situation, 22 August 1939 | |
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| Hitler gives the order to prepare for an attack on the USSR | |
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| The Einsatzgruppen | |
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| German treatment of Russian prisoners of war | |
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| Resettlement policies in Poland | |
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| Hitler's racial priorities | |
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| The Wannsee Conference | |
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| Comparison between the British and German war efforts | |
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| The inefficiencies of labour conscription | |
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| The strains of war on the family | |
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| The Swing Movement | |
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| The Confessing Church emphasises the Fifth Commandment, 1943 | |
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| Individual acts of opposition | |
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| General von Tresckow on the significance of the opposition | |
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| Contrasting attitudes towards Hitler in March 1945 | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |