Aspects of the Third Reich

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Between Myth and Revisionism? The Third Reich in the Perspective of the 1980s....Pages 17-38
1933: The Legality of Hitler’s Assumption of Power....Pages 39-61
The Reichstag Fire and Its Political Consequences....Pages 62-95
Social and Psychological Aspects of the Fuhrer’s Rule....Pages 96-132
The Structure and Nature of the National Conservative Opposition in Germany up to 1940....Pages 133-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Hitler’s Planning for War and the Response of the Great Powers (1938–39)....Pages 196-234
Hitler’s War aims....Pages 235-250
Hitler’s Ultimate Aims — A Programme of World Dominion?....Pages 251-266
From the Anti-Comintern Pact to the Euro-Asiatic Bloc: Ribbentrop’s Alternative Concept of Hitler’s Foreign Policy Programme....Pages 267-284
Hitler’s ‘Programme’ and the Genesis of Operation ‘Barbarossa’....Pages 285-322
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
The Reichsmark Bloc and the International Economy....Pages 331-359
Germany’s Economic Preparations for War....Pages 360-370
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Hitler and the Genesis of the ‘Final Solution’: An Assessment of David Irving’s Theses....Pages 390-429
The ‘Aristocracy of National Socialism’: The Role of the SS in National Socialist Germany....Pages 430-450
Front Matter....Pages 451-451
The Hitler Image in the Last Half-century....Pages 462-488
1933 and the Continuity of German History....Pages 489-508
Back Matter....Pages 509-611