Nazism

This unique collection brings together extracts from the most innovative and stimulating studies of Nazism, including many forgotten or ignored older works. Nazism looks afresh at the structure, style of rule, and consequences of National Socialism and explores how successive generations of commentators and historians have sought to explain and understand the origins, nature, impact, and legacy of this regime of unprecedented destructiveness. With introductions to each section, to the authors, and a general introduction to the text, Neil Gregor presents a comprehensive coverage of the history and politics of this dramatic political movement.

The Nazi regime was a regime of unparalleled destructiveness. Nazism presents both key texts from some of the most innovative and challenging of more recent studies and extracts from the older historiography of the origins, nature, impact, and legacy of the National Socialist regime. It suggests both the need to re-read and re-consider much forgotten or ignored texts from earlier generations of commentators and the possibility of considering afresh the structure, style of rule, and consequences of National Socialism in the context provided by the end of the cold war. The texts connect the experiences of the Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi aggression and genocide; links the fates of the victims with analysis of the perpetrators; and stresses the consequences of this unprecedented collapse in civilised values for post war Germany and the world.

General Introduction; Contemporary Characterisations of National Socialism; Introduction; Hermann Rauschning: Germany's Revolution of Destruction; Ewald Von Kleist-Schmenzin: National Socialism: a Menace; Thomas Mann: German Address. A Call to Reason; Theodor Heuss: The party; Fritz Gerlich: The Impossibility of Constructive Achievement; Ingbert Naab: The Third Reich is Here!; Alfons Wold: Hitler and Christianity; Erich Fromm: The Psychology of Nazism; Karl Kautsky: Overcoming National Socialism; Karl Kautsdy: Some Causes and Consequences of National Socialism; Harald Laski: The Meaning of Fascism; Ernst Toller: On the German Situation; The Emergence of National Socialism; Introduction; A Special Path?; Hans-Ulrich Wehler: The German Empire 1871-1918; J"urgen Kocka: The Causes of National Socialism; Geoff Eley: What Produces Fascism: Pre-Industrial Traditions or a Crisis of Capitalism?; Dieter Groh: The Special Path of German History: Myth or Reality?; The National Socialist Movement; Martin Broszat: The Social Motivation and F"uhrer-Bond in National Socialism; Jeremy Noakes: The Nazi Party in Lower Saxony; Albrecht Tyrell: The NSDAP as party and Movement; Roger Griffin: The Rise of German Fascism; J"urgen Falter: The NSDAP: A People's Protest Party; The Failure of Weimar and the Crisis of 1933; Karl-Deitrich Bracher: Stages of the Seizure of Power; Hans Mommsen: The National Socialist Seizure of Power and German Society; Richard Bessel: Why Did the Weimar Republic Collapse?; Detlev Peukert: The Crisis of Classical Modernity; Ian Kershaw: 30th January 1933; National Socialism, Civil Society and the Seizure of Power 1929-1933; William Sheridan Allen: The Nazi Seizure of Power; Zdenek Zofka: The Growth of National Socialism in the Countryside; Rudy Koshar: Toward the Mass Party; Oded Heilbronner: The Abandoned Regulars' Table; Wolfram Pyta: Protestant Rural Milieu and National Socialism prior to 1933; The National Socialist Regime; Introduction; The National Socialist Regime as Monolith: Theories of Totalitarianism; Carlton JH Hayes: The Novelty of Totalitarianism; Hannah Arendt: Ideology and Terror; Karl-Dietrich Bracher: Totalitarianism as Concept and Rality; Marxist Theories of National Socialism; Walter Ulbricht: The Nature of Hitler Fascism; E. Paterna et al.: The Beginning of a New Stage of State Monopoly Development; Ernt Gottschling: The Fascist State. The German Example; The Regime as Polycratic State; IIIa. Wartime 'Emigr'e Writers; Ernst Fraenkel: The Dual State; Franz Neumann: Behemoth; IIIb. The Regime and the Conservative Establishment; Tim Mason: The Primacy of Politics; Peter Hayes: The Nazi Empire 1938-1944; Hans Mommsen: The Civil Service in the Third Reich; Jane Caplan: State Formation and Political Representation in Nazi Germany; Dieter Rebentisch and Karl Teppe: Administration versus Human Leadership; Klaus-J"urgen M"uller: The Army and the Third Reich; Wilhelm Deist: The Gleichschaltung of the Armed Forces; Manfred Messerschmidt: The Wehrmacht in the National Socialist State; Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich; Ralph Angermund: Jews on Trial; IIIc Charismatic Authority and The Erosion of Rational-Bureaucratic Government; Robert Koehl: Feudal Aspects of National Socialism; Martin Broszat: The Hitler State; Peter Diehl-Thiele: Party and State in the Third Reich; Hans Mommsen: National Socialism: Cumulative Radicalisation and Self Destruction of the Regime; Peter H"uttenberger: National Socialist Polycracy; Tim Mason: Intention and Explanation; Michael Geyer: The State in National Socialist Germany; Ian Kershaw: Working Towards the F"uhrer; The 'Seductive Surface' of National Socialism; Introduction; Ernst Bloch: Inventory of Revolutionary Appearance; Klaus Vondung: Magic and Manipulation; Anson Rabinbach: The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich; Jans-Dietrich Schaefer: Split Consciousness; Peter Reichel: The 'Seductive Surface' of the Third Reich; Alf Luedtke: The Honour of Labour: Industrial Workers and the Power of Symbols under National Socialism; Jost D"ulffer: The Matrix of Totalitarian Imagery: Public Space, the National Socialist Year and the Generational Cycle; National Socialism and German Society; Introduction; Resistenz?; Martin Broszat: Resistenz and Resistance; Klaus Tenfelde: The Social Basis of Resistenz and Resistance; Ian Kershaw: Resistance without the People?; Klaus Michael-Mallmann and Gerhard Paul: Resistenz or loyal reluctance?; Participation; Robert Gellately: The Gestapo and Social Cooperation: The Example of Political Denunciation; Claudia Koonz: Mothers in the Fatherland; Paul Weindling: Racial Hygiene and Professional leadership; Michael Kater: The Problem of Motivation Reconsidered; Michael Burleigh: Death and Deliverance; Christopher Browning: Reflections on a Massacre; Omer Bartov: The Missing Years: German Workers, German Soldiers; Michael Zimmermann: The Conditions of Genocide; The Impact of National Socialism; Introduction; David Schoenbaum: The Third Reich and Society; Ralph Dahrendorf: National Socialist Germany and the Social Revolution; Detlev Peukert: Brown Revolution?; Jens Alber: National Socialism and Modernisation; Detlev Peukert: Persecution and Co-ordination; Falk Pingel: The Concentration Camps as Part of the National Socialist System of Domination; Gisela Bock: Racial Policy and Women's Policy; Hans-Georg Stuemke: The Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi German; Detlev Garbe: Between Resistance and Martyrdom; Ulrich Herbert: Hitler's Foreign Workers; Christian Streit: Soviet Prisoners of War Mass Deportation Forced Workers; Leni Yahil: The Holocaust. The Fate of European Jewry; Raul Hilberg: Children; Franciszek Piper: The Number of Victims; Yitzhak Arad: Belzec. Sobibor, Treblinda. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps; Frank Golczewski: Poland; Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann: The Persecution of Sinti and Roma; The Legacy of National Socialism; Introduction; I. 'Confronting the Past'; Peter Steinback: On the Engagement with National Socialist Violent Crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany; Wolfgang Benz: Post-War Society and National Socialism: Memory, Amnesia, Defensiveness; Norbert Frei: Policy Towards the past; II. Denazification and War Crimes Trial; Lutz Niethammer: The Fellow Travellers Factory; Clemens Vollnhals: Denazification; Hermann Langbein: In the name of the German People; Adalbert R"uckerl: National Socialist Extermination Camps as reflected in German Trials; III. Bitburg, Historicisation and the Historikerstreit; Charles Maier: Bitburg History; Raul Hilberg: Bitburg as Symbol; Geoff Eley: Nazism, Politics and the Image of the Past; The Historikerstreit in Context; IV. Holocaust memory in the 1990s; James Young: Germany: The Ambiguity of Memory of the Germans; Lutz Neithammer: Jews and Russians in the Memory of the Germans; Isabel Wollaston: A War against Memory?; Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Index

Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Southampton