Roderick Stackelberg is Emeritus Professor of History at Gonzaga University. He is the author of Hitler’s Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies (1999) and Idealism Debased: From Volkisch Ideology to National Socialism (1981), and co-editor of The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (2002).

• 1. Introduction and Background Part 1: Nazi Germany in Historical Perspective 2. Chronology 3. Historiography 4. A–Z of Historians. Tables and Maps Part 2: Nazi Germany: The Major Topics 5. Origins and Consolidation 6. Dictatorship in Action 7. Foreign Policy, War and the Holocaust 8. Opposition and Legacy Part 3: Nazi Germany: Names, Terms and Sources 9. Biographies 10. Glossary 11. Bibliography

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