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Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies
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by Stacke Roderick
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Cover Type: Paperback with 307 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition June 21, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0415201152
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415201155
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Extending from Hitler's 1923 abortive "Beer Hall Putsch" to WWII and its aftermath, Stackelberg's engrossing narrative history deserves a wide readership. A humanities professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., Stackelberg cogently argues that Nazi rule was generally maintained by popular consensus rather than by coercion (he's thus in agreement with Daniel Goldhagen, whose 1996 book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, he pointedly praises). Wide sectors of the German public, he notes, were all too ready to collaborate with the Nazi regime, either out of conviction or expediency. Balancing "intentionalist" versus "functionalist" explanations of the Holocaust, Stackelberg maintains that the Nazis' commitment, from the very start, to total exclusion of Jews from German society, combined with Nazi adherence to the deadly eugenic principle of exterminating whoever they deemed "life unworthy of life," led to the genocide of two-thirds of European Jewry under the facilitating conditions created by the war. Combining dispassionate analysis with dramatic writing, he provides historical context for Third Reich barbarism by boldly delineating a "pre-history" of Nazism that includes Bismarck's absolutist rule, the work of late-19th-century nationalist propagandists and the Free Corps goon squads who crushed the 1919 Spartacist revolt and murdered Rosa Luxemburg (Free Corps veterans were later recruited to be leaders of Hitler's own storm troops, the SA). Stackelberg ably covers the Nuremberg trials, German denazification and the contemporary resurgence of militant neo-Nazi fringe groups. While he offers no surprises or new findings, Stackelberg gives readers a superb historical synthesis. (Aug.)
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From Kirkus Reviews
paper 0-415-20115-2 A superb introduction for the general reader to the history of Nazi Germany. Discussion of Germany's Nazi past is never far from public discourse. With the return of the German capital to Berlin on the eve of the millennium, there is likely to be a spate of books on Germany's coming to grips with its Nazi legacy. Stackelberg (Humanities/Gonzaga Univ.; Idealism Debased: From Volkisch Ideology to National Socialism, not reviewed) has produced a clearly written, intelligible one that should be read before any others. He does well in providing the historical context which is needed to understand the rise of Nazism. The development of modern Germany is traced from its origins in 18th-century Prussia through its unification under Bismarck and growth under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Stackelberg skillfully narrates the cataclysm of the First World War and the troubled times of the Weimar Republic. He presents a well-rounded treatment of Nazi Germany in its social, economic, political, military, and ideological aspects. The Nazi persecution of the Jews and the history of the Holocaust are accorded their own chapters commensurate with their central importance. The author concludes with the painful aftermath of Nazism and gives an analytical summary of the historiographical debates on Nazi Germany that have taken place from the Second World War's end to the present day. While stressing the authoritarian tradition that led to Hitler, Stackelberg is always careful to counterbalance this focus by noting that Nazism was not inevitable, but the result of human frailty. One of the best historical surveys on the subject to appear in many years. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Reader Reviews
I had the extreme pleasure of taking Dr. Stackelberg's course at Gonzaga University in which he uses this book. What is in the course is in this book. Any person at all interested in studying Nazi Germany should start with this book. It clearly, concisely, and logically lays out the entire history of Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler's Germany was a joy to read, and I learned a great deal from it.
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