Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler, and Europe

by John R. Gillingham

Book Overview

When originally published in 1985 this was the first detailed study of business in Nazi Germany. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from government and private archives, the book throws light on the important role played by Germany heavy industry in preserving traditions valuable for the post-Nazi future. Contrary to widely held beliefs, the industrialists of the Ruhr did not master-mind the economic strategy of the third Reich, nor were they the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231062605
• ISBN13: 9780231062602
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.