Hitler's Germany

Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century German history. Stackelberg analyses how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness. The book includes discussion on: the relationship of Nazism to conservatism, socialism, liberalism, fascism and communism the weakness of the Weimar democracy the causes and foundations of the emergence and triumph of Nazism the consolidation of Nazi power across a diverse society and in every day life in Hitler's Germany the sporadic revival of the radical right up to the present the afterlife of Nazism in German historical memory* the Holocaust.