Hitler and Nazi Germany

Introduction ......Page 10
Family  background  and  early  life ......Page 11
Hitler's  Vienna  years,  1908-13 ......Page 14
Hitler  at  war ......Page 17
The  early  growth  of  the  Nazi  Party ......Page 18
The  Munich  beer  hall  putsch ......Page 21
Hitler's  ideology  and  aims ......Page 22
Hitler's  rise  to  power ......Page 24
Document  case  study ......Page 28
The  consolidation  of  power,  1933-34 ......Page 33
The  Nazi  state ......Page 37
The  economy  in  Nazi  Germany ......Page 41
Document  case  study ......Page 48
Property  ownership ......Page 52
Law  and  order ......Page 53
The  family ......Page 54
Education ......Page 55
Youth ......Page 56
Women ......Page 57
Propaganda ......Page 58
Health ......Page 61
Document  case  study ......Page 62
The  church ......Page 66
The  army  and  Foreign  Office ......Page 67
Communist  resistance ......Page 70
Industrial  workers ......Page 71
University  students  ('White  Rose  Movement') ......Page 72
Youth  protest ......Page 73
Humour ......Page 74
Document  case  study ......Page 75
5  Foreign  policy:  Hitler's  road  to  war,  1933-39 ......Page 79
Hitler  moves  cautiously ......Page 80
German  rearmament ......Page 81
The  Spanish  Civil  War ......Page 82
Relations  with  Italy,  Japan  and  Britain ......Page 84
The  Hossbach  memorandum ......Page 85
The  Czech  crisis ......Page 86
The  Munich  agreement ......Page 87
Poland  under  threat ......Page 89
The  outbreak  of  the  Second  World  War ......Page 90
Document  case  study ......Page 91
Hitler  as  war  lord ......Page 95
The  successful  Nazi  Blitzkrieg,  1939-40 ......Page 96
The  Battle  of  Britain,  1940 ......Page 98
Hitler  decides  to  attack  the  Soviet  Union ......Page 99
Operation  Barbarossa:  the  first  phase,  22  June-December  1941 ......Page 101
The  German  campaign  in  the  Soviet  Union,  1942-43 ......Page 103
Military  defeats  for  the  Axis  powers,  1942-44 ......Page 106
The  attack  in  western  Europe ......Page 107
The  final  assault  on  Nazi  Germany,  1944-45 ......Page 108
The  last  days  of  Hitler ......Page 109
Document  case  study ......Page 111
The  development  of  anti-Semitism ......Page 115
Jewish  discrimination  in  Nazi  Germany,  1933-37 ......Page 116
The  euthanasia  programme,  1939-41 ......Page 118
The  persecution  of  the  Jews,  1939-41 ......Page 119
The  movement  towards  the  Final  Solution ......Page 120
The  transition  to  systematic  extermination:  mass  shootings  in  the  Soviet  Union ......Page 121
The  administration  of  death ......Page 122
The  extermination  camps ......Page 123
The  broader  dimensions  of  Nazi  genocide ......Page 125
The  singular  fate  of  the  Jews ......Page 126
Document  case  study ......Page 127
The  problems  of  debate ......Page 132
Adolf  Hitler:  master  of  Nazi  Germany ......Page 133
Foreign  policy ......Page 134
A  social  revolution ......Page 136
The  historians  and  the  Nazi  economy ......Page 138
The  Holocaust ......Page 140
Conclusion ......Page 145
Bibliography ......Page 148
Glossary ......Page 151
Chronology ......Page 153
Index ......Page 157