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1 online resource. |
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Teach yourself |
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Teach yourself books.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Book title; Contents; 1 Introduction: Germany's road to Nazism; Moment of destiny; The birth of Germany; German defeat in the Great War, 1914-18; The rise of the National Socialists (Nazis); The Munich Putsch, 1923; Hitler's Mein Kampf ('My Struggle'); The influence of the economic depression; 2 The Nazis take control; The end of the Weimar Republic, 1933; Hitler becomes Chancellor, January 1933; The Reichstag fire, February 1933; The Reichstag election, March 1933; Why so many Germans came to support the Nazis; The Enabling Act, March 1933; The Night of the Long Knives, June 1934. |
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Hitler becomes Reich President, August 19343 The Third Reich expands; Hitler's foreign policy; Germany begins to rearm, 1935; German remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936; The forming of the Axis, 1936; The Spanish Civil War, 1936-9; The Anschluss, 1938; Germany recovers the Sudetenland, 1938; The Polish crisis, 1939; The Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 1939; Hitler's responsibility for the war; The Hossbach Memorandum, 1937; 4 Nazi Germany at war, 1939-42; Germany at the outbreak of war in 1939; The defeat of Poland, September 1939; The 'phoney war', 1939-40; The invasion of Norway, 1940. |
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The fall of France, May-June 1940The aerial attack on Britain, August 1940-May 1941; The invasion of the USSR, 1941; War in the Balkans and North Africa, 1940-2; Germany declares war on the USA, December 1941; 5 Nazi Germany at war, 1942-5; The position in 1942; The desert war, 1942-3; The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-3; The Battle of Kursk, July 1943; Crisis in Italy, 1943-5; Germany's troubles at sea and in the air, 1943-5; The Allied invasion of occupied Europe, 1944; Hitler's last throw -- the V weapons, 1944-5; The end for Germany and Hitler, 1945; 6 The Nazi leaders. |
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Martin Bormann (1900-45)Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945); Hermann Goering (1893-1946); Rudolf Hess (1894-1987); Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42); Heinrich Himmler (1900-45); Albert Speer (1905-81); Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946); Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946); The Nazi leaders in history; 7 The German economy under the Nazis; Hitler's economic aims; The policies of Hjalmar Schacht, 1933; Goering's Four Year Plan, 1936-9; The economy in wartime, 1939-42; The wartime economy under Speer, 1942-5; 8 The German armed forces, 1933-45; The armed services under Hitler; Hitler and the army. |
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The army loses its independenceThe structure of the army; The Luftwaffe (air force); The Abwehr (army intelligence); The navy; 9 Culture, work and death in Nazi Germany; Propaganda and the arts; Musicians, artists and thinkers; Radio; Hitler and the arts; The Berlin Olympics, 1936; The Hitler Youth; The character of Nazi propaganda; The German Labour Front; The euthanasia and sterilization programme; 10 The instruments of Nazi control; The SA; The SS; The SD; The Gestapo; The Waffen-SS; 11 Women in the Third Reich; Nazi attitudes towards women; Nazi restrictions on women; Motherhood campaigns. |
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Nazi puritanism. |
| Summary |
"The perfect way to get to grips with the great historical events"--The History Channel. |
| Subject |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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History.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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| Chronological Term |
1933-1945
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lynch, Michael. Understand Nazi Germany : Teach Yourself. London : Hodder Education, ©2012 9781444157536 |
| ISBN |
9781444157543 (electronic bk.) |
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144415754X (electronic bk.) |
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