Germany and the Second World War

Ralf Blank, M.A. (b. 1962). Studied history and classical and prehistoric archaeology at Cologne and Bochum, as well as applied and theoretical museology at Graz; curator and head of collections and documentation department at the Historischen Centrum Hagen; lecturer in modern and recent history at the Ruhr University at Bochum; preparing a doctoral thesis on the home front and the postwar period in Southern Westphalia (Prof. Norbert Frei); Dr. Jörg Echternkamp (b. 1963). Studied science of history and Romance studies at the University of Bielefeld, University of Poitiers, and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA); on the scientific staff of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], Potsdam;Dr. Karola Fings (b. 1962). Studied history and German language and literature at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; deputy director of the National Socialism Documenta­tion Centre of the city of Cologne; lecturer at University of Cologne;Dr. Jürgen Förster (b. 1940). Studied English language and literature, philosophy, and history at Nottingham and Cologne (Ph.D. 1974); several visiting professorships, most recently as Miegunyah Distinguished Fellow at the University of Melbourne; adjunct professor at Freiburg UniversityCol. Winfried Heinemann, Ph.D. (b.1956). Studied history and English language and literature at the Ruhr University, Bochum and at the Department of War Studies, King's College,London; on the scientific staff of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], Potsdam;Tobias Jersak Ph.D. (b. 1972). 1999-2000 Research assistant to the defence in Irving vs. Lipstadt; 2000-2004 lecturer in history (University of Stuttgart) and church history (University of Münster); published and edited several books and articles besides educational software on National Socialism, the Holocaust, and Enlightenment thought; moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2005 where he is now working with street-children;Armin Nolzen M.A. (b. 1968). Studied science of history, German language and literature (modern German literature), social science (political science), and philosophy at the Ruhr University, Bochum; member of the editorial board of Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus; member of working group on historical peace research; preparing a doctoral thesis on the history of the NSDAP (Prof. Hans Mommsen);Dr. Christoph A. Rass, (b. 1969). Studied economic and social history, modern history, and information science at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken; assistant lecturer in the teaching and research department for economic and social history at the RWTH [Rhineland-Westphalia Institute of Technology] Aachen University;

• A: AT WAR, ABROAD AND AT HOME: THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF GERMAN SOCIETY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR; PART 1: RULE, DESTROY, SURVIVE; B: THE NSDAP, THE WAR, AND GERMAN SOCIETY; C: SLAVES FOR THE 'HOME FRONT'. WAR SOCIETY AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS; D. DECISIONS TO MURDER AND TO LIE. GERMAN WAR SOCIETY AND THE HOLOCAUST; E. WARTIME DAILY LIFE AND THE AIR WAR ON THE HOME FRONT; PART II: THE UNIFORMED SOCIETY; A. IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE IN GERMANY 1919 TO 1945; B. THE SOCIAL PROFILE OF THE GERMAN ARMY'S COMBAT UNITS 1939-1945; C. MILITARY RESISTANCE ACTIVITIES AND THE WAR

[Part of] a succession of mighty volumes ... The portrait of German wartime society presented by this book is somber, meticulously documented, cool, reasoned.