Ebook: The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918-1945 (German Historical Perspectives)

Covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and political developments which resulted in the mass murder of European Jews. Introduction / Hans Mommsen -- Violence and sacrifice : imagining the nation in Weimar Germany / Bernd Weisbrod -- Hitler and Vienna : the truth about his formative years / Brigitte Hamann -- Fatal attraction : the German right and Italian fascism / Wolfgang Schieder -- People's community and war : Hitler's popular support / Norbert Frei -- The Nazi boom : an economic cul-de-sac / Christoph Buchheim -- Ideological legitimization and political practice of the leadership of the National Socialist secret police / Ulrich Herbert -- The Indian summer and the collapse of the Third Reich : the last act / Hans Mommsen