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"From the followers of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolph Hitler in November 1942, to Balkan Muslim volunteers for the Waffen SS during World War II, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and racism has seduced peoples across all races, religions, and classes. Now widely reviled, fascism became the dominant political force in Western Europe throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s. How did civilized nations like Italy,...

In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges and administrators from the Nazi era. According to Stolleis, they were reluctant to investigate this legal history and maintained the ideal that law...

This first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust examines women's unique responses to the situation, their incredible resourcefulness, their courage, and their suffering. Contributors include Gershon Bacon, Ida Fink, Sara R. Horowitz, Gisela Block, Yehuda Bauer, Nechama Tec, and others.

The capital of the Nazi movement was not Berlin but Munich. So said the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, of this handsome Bavarian town on the banks of the Isar River. Munich, the city of baroque buildings, fine art museums, and Oktoberfest, was where Hitler felt most at home. It was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultural shrine of the Third Reich. Why did Nazism flourish in the "Athens of the Isar"? In exploring this question, David Clay Large...

Attempts to explain, by means of "ethical theory, " how ordinary people who were not evil could perpetrate atrocities believing them to be morally good. Asserts that they were guided by a peculiar new ethic. The Nazi ethic built on European traditions which portrayed history as a war between races and which sanctioned the killing of inferior, threatening races in a "just war." The SS was the spearhead of this ethic, but perpetrators, collaborators,...

What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later? In Frauen we hear their voices - most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of twenty-nine German women who were there: Working for the Resistance. Joining the Nazi Party. Outsmarting the Gestapo. Disliking a Jewish neighbor. Hiding a Jewish friend. Witnessing "Kristallnacht." Witnessing...

A synthesis and evaluation of recent works (particularly by German scholars) on Hitler and the Third Reich, dealing with issues such as the essence of Nazism, politics, and economics. Ch. 5 (p. 82-106), "Hitler and the Holocaust", summarizes the intentionalist and structuralist views expressed in the "historians' debate" and suggests a compromise to explain how the Final Solution evolved. States that although Hitler's hatred of the Jews was undoubtedly...