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  • Studying the Jew

    Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany

    by Alan E Steinweis ...
    " Exposes the culpability of scholars who collaborated with Nazi race policy . . . an excellent [book] . . . to understand the mentality of 'desk murderers.'" (Claudia Koonz, author of The Nazi Conscience)Early in his political career, Adolf Hitler declared the importance of what he called "an antisemitism of reason." He hoped that his exclusionary and violent policies would be legitimized by ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Law in Nazi Germany

    Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

    Edited by Robert D. Rachlin, Alan E. Steinweis ...
    Series Book 5 - Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • The People's Dictatorship

    A History of Nazi Germany

    by Alan E. Steinweis ...
    Series series New Approaches to European History
    In this up-to-date, succinct, and highly readable volume, Alan E. Steinweis presents a new synthesis of the origins, development, and downfall of Nazi Germany. After tracing the intellectual and cultural origins of Nazi ideology, the book recounts the rise and eventual victory of the Nazi movement against the background of the struggling Weimar Republic. The book details the rapid transformation ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Betrayal of the Humanities

    The University during the Third Reich

    by Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen, Alan E. Steinweis, Suzanne L. Marchand, Christopher J. Probst, Anders Gerdmar, Thomas Schneider, Johannes Renger, Bettina Arnold0, Oren Gross1, Michael Cherlin2, Emmanuel Faye3, Aniko Szabo4, Franklin Hugh Adler5, Alvin H. Rosenfeld6 ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany

    The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts

    by Alan E. Steinweis ...
    From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Kristallnacht 1938

    by Alan E. Steinweis ...
    On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions of Hitler and Goebbels at the pinnacle of the Third Reich. As synagogues burned and Jews were beaten in the streets, police stood aside. Men, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Coping with the Nazi Past

    West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

    Edited by Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in German History
    Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Law in Nazi Germany

    Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

    Edited by Alan E. Steinweis, Robert D. Rachlin ...
    Series Book 5 - Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Totalitarianism

    Stalinism and Nazism Compared

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

    Dilemmas and Responses

    Edited by David Scrase, Francis R. Nicosia ...
    Series Book 4 - Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish family life, Jewish women, and the existence of Jewish organizations and institutions and considers some ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • A Companion to Nazi Germany

    Edited by Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third ReichFor its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining ... Read more

    $172.00 USD