
Description
Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler and Nazi Germany.
- Creates a succinct, argument-driven overview for students by using common myths and stereotypes to encourage critical engagement with the subject
- Provides an up-to-date historical synthesis based on the latest research in the field
- Argues that in order to fully understand and explain this period of history, we need to address its seeming paradoxes - for example, questioning why most Germans viewed the Third Reich as a legitimate government, despite the Nazis' criminality
- Incorporates useful study features, including a timeline, glossary, maps, and illustrations
Product Details
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Publish Date | January 27, 2015 |
Pages | 256 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781118294789 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
CATHERINE EPSTEIN is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History at Amherst College. She is the prize-winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010). Her previous publications also include The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993).
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