Nazism, War And Genocide

Introduction to the paperback edition

            List of common German abbreviations used in the text

1                    Neil Gregor

Nazism—A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn

2                    Jane Caplan

Political Detention and the Origin of the Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6

3                    Dick Geary

Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich

4                    Robert Gellately

Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler’s Dictatorship, 1933-1939

5                    Nikolaus Wachsmann

‘Soldiers of the Home Front’: Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War

6                    Jill Stephenson

Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War

7                    Ian Kershaw

Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940?

8                    Mark Roseman

Shoot First and Ask Questions Afterwards? Wannsee and the Unfolding of the Final Solution

9                    Norbert Frei

Auschwitz and the Germans: History, Knowledge and Memory

Notes

List of Contributors

Suggestions for further reading

Index