Covers the origins, nature, impact and legacy of the National Socialist regime
Comprehensive arrangement of recent studies and older historiography
Includes texts hitherto unavailable in English
Reconnects the history of the holocaust with the history of Germany in the `20`s, 30`s, 40`s, and the history of the Third Reich generally
Topical subject: both widely studied and in the consciousness of the public

The Nazi regime was a regime of unparalleled destructiveness. Nazism presents both key texts from some of the most innovative and challenging of more recent studies and extracts from the older historiography of the origins, nature, impact, and legacy of the National Socialist regime. It suggests both the need to re-read and re-consider much forgotten or ignored texts from earlier generations of commentators and the possibility of considering afresh the structure, style of rule, and consequences of National Socialism in the context provided by the end of the cold war. The texts connect the experiences of the Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi aggression and genocide; links the fates of the victims with analysis of the perpetrators; and stresses the consequences of this unprecedented collapse in civilised values for post war Germany and the world.

Contents
General Introduction
Contemporary Characterisations of National Socialism

Introduction
Germany`s Revolution of Destruction , Hermann Rauschning
National Socialism: a Menace , Ewald Von Kleist-Schmenzin
German Address. A Call to Reason , Thomas Mann
The party , Theodor Heuss
The Impossibility of Constructive Achievement , Fritz Gerlich
The Third Reich is Here! , Ingbert Naab
Hitler and Christianity , Alfons Wold
The Psychology of Nazism , Erich Fromm
Overcoming National Socialism , Karl Kautsky
Some Causes and Consequences of National Socialism , Karl Kautsdy
The Meaning of Fascism , Harald Laski
On the German Situation , Ernst Toller
The Emergence of National Socialism

Introduction
A Special Path?
The German Empire 1871-1918 , Hans-Ulrich Wehler
The Causes of National Socialism , Jürgen Kocka
What Produces Fascism: Pre-Industrial Traditions or a Crisis of Capitalism? , Geoff Eley
The Special Path of German History: Myth or Reality? , Dieter Groh
The National Socialist Movement
The Social Motivation and Führer-Bond in National Socialism , Martin Broszat
The Nazi Party in Lower Saxony , Jeremy Noakes
The NSDAP as party and Movement , Albrecht Tyrell
The Rise of German Fascism , Roger Griffin
The NSDAP: A People`s Protest Party , Jürgen Falter
The Failure of Weimar and the Crisis of 1933
Stages of the Seizure of Power , Karl-Deitrich Bracher
The National Socialist Seizure of Power and German Society , Hans Mommsen
Why Did the Weimar Republic Collapse? , Richard Bessel
The Crisis of Classical Modernity , Detlev Peukert
30th January 1933 , Ian Kershaw
National Socialism, Civil Society and the Seizure of Power 1929-1933
The Nazi Seizure of Power , William Sheridan Allen
The Growth of National Socialism in the Countryside , Zdenek Zofka
Toward the Mass Party , Rudy Koshar
The Abandoned Regulars` Table , Oded Heilbronner
Protestant Rural Milieu and National Socialism prior to 1933 , Wolfram Pyta
The National Socialist Regime

Introduction
The National Socialist Regime as Monolith: Theories of Totalitarianism
The Novelty of Totalitarianism , Carlton JH Hayes
Ideology and Terror , Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism as Concept and Rality , Karl-Dietrich Bracher
Marxist Theories of National Socialism

The Nature of Hitler Fascism , Walter Ulbricht
The Beginning of a New Stage of State Monopoly Development , E. Paterna et al.
The Fascist State. The German Example , Ernt Gottschling
The Regime as Polycratic State

IIIa. Wartime Émigré Writers

The Dual State , Ernst Fraenkel
Behemoth , Franz Neumann
IIIb. The Regime and the Conservative Establishment

The Primacy of Politics , Tim Mason
The Nazi Empire 1938-1944 , Peter Hayes
The Civil Service in the Third Reich , Hans Mommsen
State Formation and Political Representation in Nazi Germany , Jane Caplan
Administration versus Human Leadership , Dieter Rebentisch and Karl Teppe
The Army and the Third Reich , Klaus-Jürgen Müller
The Gleichschaltung of the Armed Forces , Wilhelm Deist
The Wehrmacht in the National Socialist State , Manfred Messerschmidt
Justice in the Third Reich , Lothar Gruchmann
Jews on Trial , Ralph Angermund
IIIc Charismatic Authority and The Erosion of Rational-Bureaucratic Government

Feudal Aspects of National Socialism , Robert Koehl
The Hitler State , Martin Broszat
Party and State in the Third Reich , Peter Diehl-Thiele
National Socialism: Cumulative Radicalisation and Self Destruction of the Regime , Hans Mommsen
National Socialist Polycracy , Peter Hüttenberger
Intention and Explanation , Tim Mason
The State in National Socialist Germany , Michael Geyer
Working Towards the Führer , Ian Kershaw
The `Seductive Surface` of National Socialism

Introduction
Inventory of Revolutionary Appearance , Ernst Bloch
Magic and Manipulation , Klaus Vondung
The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich , Anson Rabinbach
Split Consciousness , Jans-Dietrich Schaefer
The `Seductive Surface` of the Third Reich , Peter Reichel
The Honour of Labour: Industrial Workers and the Power of Symbols under National Socialism , Alf Luedtke
The Matrix of Totalitarian Imagery: Public Space, the National Socialist Year and the Generational Cycle , Jost Dülffer
National Socialism and German Society

Introduction
Resistenz?
Resistenz and Resistance , Martin Broszat
The Social Basis of Resistenz and Resistance , Klaus Tenfelde
Resistance without the People? , Ian Kershaw
Resistenz or loyal reluctance? , Klaus Michael-Mallmann and Gerhard Paul
Participation

The Gestapo and Social Cooperation: The Example of Political Denunciation , Robert Gellately
Mothers in the Fatherland , Claudia Koonz
Racial Hygiene and Professional leadership , Paul Weindling
The Problem of Motivation Reconsidered , Michael Kater
Death and Deliverance , Michael Burleigh
Reflections on a Massacre , Christopher Browning
The Missing Years: German Workers, German Soldiers , Omer Bartov
The Conditions of Genocide , Michael Zimmermann
The Impact of National Socialism

Introduction
The Third Reich and Society , David Schoenbaum
National Socialist Germany and the Social Revolution , Ralph Dahrendorf
Brown Revolution? , Detlev Peukert
National Socialism and Modernisation , Jens Alber
Persecution and Co-ordination , Detlev Peukert
The Concentration Camps as Part of the National Socialist System of Domination , Falk Pingel
Racial Policy and Women`s Policy , Gisela Bock
The Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi German , Hans-Georg Stuemke
Between Resistance and Martyrdom , Detlev Garbe
Hitler`s Foreign Workers , Ulrich Herbert
Soviet Prisoners of War Mass Deportation Forced Workers , Christian Streit
The Holocaust. The Fate of European Jewry , Leni Yahil
Children , Raul Hilberg
The Number of Victims , Franciszek Piper
Belzec. Sobibor, Treblinda. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps , Yitzhak Arad
Poland , Frank Golczewski
The Persecution of Sinti and Roma , Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann
The Legacy of National Socialism

Introduction
I. `Confronting the Past`

On the Engagement with National Socialist Violent Crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany , Peter Steinback
Post-War Society and National Socialism: Memory, Amnesia, Defensiveness , Wolfgang Benz
Policy Towards the past , Norbert Frei
II. Denazification and War Crimes Trial

The Fellow Travellers Factory , Lutz Niethammer
Denazification , Clemens Vollnhals
In the name of the German People , Hermann Langbein
National Socialist Extermination Camps as reflected in German Trials , Adalbert Rückerl
III. Bitburg, Historicisation and the Historikerstreit
Bitburg History , Charles Maier
Bitburg as Symbol , Raul Hilberg
Nazism, Politics and the Image of the Past , Geoff Eley
The Historikerstreit in Context
IV. Holocaust memory in the 1990s

Germany: The Ambiguity of Memory of the Germans , James Young
Jews and Russians in the Memory of the Germans , Lutz Neithammer
A War against Memory? , Isabel Wollaston
Further Reading
Acknowledgements