Hitler and Germany Hitler and Germany Front Cover

History Keynotes

by Anthony Lynch

ISBN 978-0-9757457-4-8

RRP: $39.95 AUD

This book covers the following topics :

1. The impact of World War 1

  • The cost of war
  • The impact of defeat
  • Fall of imperial government and the period of revolution

2. Adolf Hitler

  • His background and the birth of his ideas
  • Hitler and World War 1 and the impact of defeat
  • Hitler - the political radical, political ideas and the formation of the Nazi Party

3. The Weimar Republic

  • Impact of defeat and the Treaty of Versailles
  • The "stab in the back" and its influence
  • Creation of the democratic state - the role of the army, Right and Left wing politics
  • Political, social and economic problems of the Republic to 1929
  • The impact of the Great Depression on Germany

4. Hitler and the Nazi Party

  • The early years and ideas oof the Nazi Party
  • The Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler and Mein Kampf
  • Nazism to 1929

5. Hitler's rise to power

  • The political and social crisis of the Depression years
  • Nazism to 1933
  • Hitler becomes chancellor
  • Nazi consolidation of power 1933 - 1934

6.The destruction of the Weimar Germany

  • The Nazi seizure of power
  • The role of the Army and powerful political interests

7. The Nazis in power

  • The Führer Principle
  • The Third Reich
  • The Nazis in power - the totalitarian state
  • Terror and repression - the SA, Gestapo and the SS

8. The Nazis, Race and the Jews

  • Nazi racial policy - anti-Semitism to 1939
  • The Holocaust

9. Nazi Society

  • The role of propaganda
  • Nazi society and culture - the position of the individual, women, youth, culture, religion

10. Nazi foreign policy

  • Hitler's weltenschaung - his world view
  • Nazi ideology and foreign policy to September 1939
  • Nazi foreign policy - aims and strategy to September 1939

11. Case studies

  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Albert Speer

Sample Chapter

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