Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

by Robert Gellately

Book Overview

Debate still rages over how much ordinary Germans knew about the concentration camps and the Gestapo's activities during Hitler's reign. Now, in this well-documented and provocative volume, historian Robert Gellately argues that the majority of German citizens had quite a clear picture of the extent of Nazi atrocities, and continued to support the Reich to the bitter end.
Culling chilling evidence from primary news sources and citing dozens of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192802917
• ISBN13: 9780192802910
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"