Hitler’s Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany, and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history. The book analyses how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destruction.

This book includes discussion of:

• the relationship of Nazism to great ideological movements, such as conservatism, socialism, liberalism, fascism and communism
• the weakness of the Weimar democracy
• the causes and foundations of the emergence and triumph of Nazism
• the consolidation of Nazi power across a diverse society and in everyday life in Hitler’s Germany
• the aftermath of Nazism and military defeat in Germany
• the sporadic revival of the radical right up to the present
• the afterlife of Nazism in German historical memory
• the challenges of writing about National Socialism

The author

Roderick Stackelberg is the Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Professor of the Humanities at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.