Nazi Dictatorship

Sir Ian Kershaw was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK. Among his other publications is the internationally acclaimed biography Hitler (2 vols, 1998 and 2000). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

• Foreword to the 40th Anniversary Edition by Mary FulbrookPreface to the Bloomsbury Revelations editionAbbreviations1. Historians and the problem of explaining Nazism2. The Essence of Nazism: form of fascism, brand of totalitarianism, or unique phenomenon?3. Politics and economics in the Nazi State4. Hitler: ‘master of the Third Reich’ or ‘weak dictator’5. Hitler and the Holocaust6. Nazi foreign policy: Hitler’s ‘programme’ or ‘expansion without object’?7. The Third Reich: ‘social reaction’ or ‘social revolution’?8. ‘Resistance without the people’?9. ‘Normality’ and genocide: the problem of ‘historicization’10. Shifting perspectives: historiographical trends in the aftermath of unificationSuggestions for further readingIndex

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