Nazi Dictatorship

Sir Ian Kershaw is a leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich. Among his publications is the internationally acclaimed two volume biography Hitler (1998 and 2000). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and was knighted in 2002 for services to the field of history.

• Preface to the Revelations Edition Abbreviations1. 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

Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.