The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nPreface to the Bloomsbury Revelations edition\nPreface to the Fourth Edition\nAbbreviations\nChapter 1 Historians and the Problem of Explaining Nazism\n	The historical–philosophical dimension\n		The political–ideological dimension\n		The moral dimension\nChapter 2 The Essence of Nazism: form of fascism, brand of totalitarianism, or unique phenomenon?\n	Totalitarianism\n		Fascism\n		General reflections on the concepts of ‘totalitarianism’ and ‘fascism’\n		Nazism as totalitarianism?\n		Nazism as fascism or unique phenomenon?\nChapter 3 Politics and Economics in the Nazi State\n	Interpretations\n		Evaluation\nChapter 4 Hitler: ‘Master in the Third Reich’ or ‘Weak Dictator’?\n	Personality, structure, and ‘the Hitler factor’\n		Hitler’s power: An evaluation\nChapter 5 Hitler and the Holocaust\n	Interpretations\n		Evaluation\nChapter 6 Nazi Foreign Policy: Hitler’s ‘programme’ or ‘expansion without object’?\n	Interpretations\n		Evaluation\nChapter 7 The Third Reich: ‘Social Reaction’ or ‘Social Revolution’?\n	Interpretations\n		Evaluation\nChapter 8 ‘Resistance without the People’?\n	Interpretations\n		Evaluation\nChapter 9 ‘Normality’ and Genocide: The Problem of ‘Historicization’\n	The ‘historicization’ approach\n		Criticism of ‘historicization’\n		Evaluation\nChapter 10 Shifting Perspectives: historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification\n	I\n		II\n		III\n		Reflections\nSuggestions for Further Reading\n	General historiographical surveys\n		1 Historians and the problem of explaining Nazism\n		2 The essence of Nazism: Form of fascism, brand of totalitarianism, or unique phenomenon?\n		3 Politics and economics in the Nazi State\n		4 Hitler: ‘Master in the Third Reich’ or ‘weak dictator’?\n		5 Hitler and the Holocaust\n		6 Nazi foreign policy: Hitler’s ‘programme’ or ‘expansion without object’?\n		7 The Third Reich: ‘Social reaction’ or ‘social revolution’?\n		8 ‘Resistance without the people’\n		9 ‘Normality’ and genocide: The problem of ‘historicization’\n		10 Shifting perspectives: Historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification\nIndex