PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. THE HISTORICAL DEBATE
PART TWO: ANALYSIS
2. THE ORIGINS AND RISE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM
3. THE LEGAL REVOLUTION AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, 1933–34
4. STATE, PARTY AND FÜHRER: THE GOVERNMENT OF NAZI GERMANY, 1933–39
5. THE ECONOMY, 1933–39
6. THE PEOPLE’S COMMUNITY: GERMAN SOCIETY AND THE THIRD REICH, 1933–39
8. FOREIGN POLICY, 1933–39
9. GERMANY, EUROPE AND THE WORLD, 1939–45
10. THE HOME FRONT, 1939–45
11. THE GERMAN OPPOSITION
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT
12. THE THIRD REICH IN RETROSPECT
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS
Guide to Further Reading
References
Index
Biography
David G. Williamson has written extensively on modern German and European history. Among his recent publications are Poland Betrayed: The Nazi Soviet Invasions of 1939 (2011), Germany Since 1789: A Nation Forged and Renewed (2nd edition, 2016) and, also in the Seminar Studies series, Bismarck and Germany (3rd edition, 2010). Formerly head of history at Highgate School, he is now a writer and freelance lecturer.






