The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918-1945 (German Historical Perspectives)

By Hans Mommsen

Book Overview

Professor Hans Mommsen, one of the world's leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, has gathered together a group of historians who are engaged in pioneering research into national socialism. This book covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of popular support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and political developments which culminated in the mass murder of European Jews. It makes accessible to a wider public controversial arguments which have resulted from recent reassessments of Hitler's movement and his Nazi regime.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859732542
• ISBN13: 9781859732540
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.8"