A thought-provoking assessment and documentation of one of the most terrible periods in history -- the rise and fall of the Nazi Party.

• Introduction


• 1: Matthew Stibbe: The Weimar Republic and the Rise of National Socialism


• 2: Hermann Beck: The Nazi 'Seizure of Power'


• 3: Hedwig Richter and Ralph Jessen: Elections, Plebiscites, and Festivals


• 4: Jonathan Petropoulos: Architecture and the Arts


• 5: David F. Crew: Photography and Cinema


• 6: Peter Hayes: The Economy


• 7: Omer Bartov: The Holocaust


• 8: Dieter Pohl: War and Empire


• 9: Julia S. Torrie: The Home Front


• 10: Robert Gellately: Decline and Collapse


• Further Reading


• Index

Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications have been translated into over twenty languages and include the widely acclaimed Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe (2007), Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (2001), and Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War (2013), the last two also published by Oxford University Press. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.