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

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859736270
• ISBN13: 9781859736272
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Berg 3pl
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 8.3"