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Title: Life in the Third Reich by Richard Bessel ISBN: 0-19-285184-5 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting Collection of Essays
Comment: Life in the Third Reich offers eight essays on various aspects of Nazi culture. As Richard Bessel notes in his introduction, the Third Reich is not just the story of good versus evil but is a more complex study characterized by contradictions and paradoxes. Germans who disapproved of the violence of Hitler's SA may also have appreciated the Nazis' efforts to put down crime and restore social order to a nation influx. Germans who feared the Gestapo agents and the nation's drive toward war also welcomed the Anschluss with Austria and the incorporation of the Sudetenland.
Bessel's essay is entitled "Political Violence and the Nazi Seizure of Power." Bessel looks at the violence that helped the Nazi party gain power, which was often seen as legitimate when working as an "auxiliary police" force, and the violence against Jews, which was seen as excessive and hindered Nazi support. Still, the old guard allowed Hitler to come the power and Nazi violence at that time had its limits (i.e. there was no terrorist activity). Gerhard Wilke's "Village Life in Nazi Germany" looks at Koerle in north Hesse and how Nazism altered social relationships. A very interesting essay is "Youth in the Third Reich" by Detlev Peukert. Peukert describes how the increasingly coercive and drill-minded nature of the Hitler Jugend led to a youth subculture of gangs like the Edelweiss Pirates and movements like Swing jazz. Ian Kershaw explains the seven bases of the Hitler myth in "Hitler and the Germans." "Social Outcasts in the Third Reich" by Jeremy Noakes includes information on such topics as eugenics and sterilization. Other essays cover the Nazi state, policies against the Jews, and "Good Times, Bad Times: Memories of the Third Reich."
This book is an excellent source of topics not often covered in other books. It is well-researched by some of the best historians of Nazi Germany and includes two sections of b&w photos.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good information
Comment: This is a book of collected essays by several authors, including the famous Ian Kershaw, that features some very good information. The book deals with several aspects of life within Nazi Germany including how the Nazis came to power, youth, the "Hitler myth", the policy against the Jews, and the way the Nazi state was run. The differing installments are well-written, and although some parts can be dry this book is a good introduction to what daily life was like within the Reich.
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Title: Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately ISBN: 0192802917 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History (4th Edition) by Jackson J. Spielvogel ISBN: 0139759964 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 17 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $41.00 |
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Title: Son of the Revolution by Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng ISBN: 0394722744 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood Among the Nazis by Jurgen Herbst ISBN: 0299164101 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (2nd Edition) by Michael Adas, Peter Stearns, Stuart Schwartz ISBN: 0321097696 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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