Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

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Solid scholarly work
Usually, we find it difficult to accept that evil exists for its own sake-that is, freed from any rational explanation. For this leaves us with a disturbing void and an abject fear of an incomprehensible, demonic unknown. Nazism was accepted, up until the end of the Cold War, too readily by most historians as such an absolute evil. To most, it just defied any reasonable explanation, all the more so since the virulent menace came straight from the heart of a supposedly enlightened, modern German culture. Here then is an excellent essay dispelling the confusion and powerfully demonstrating, with lucid historiography and dispassionate analysis, that even such an unprecedented evil indeed had its roots in very human dimensions. Roderick Stackelberg, the author, interestingly reflects foremost on the ideological ferment that gave rise to National Socialism, or `German' socialism, logically linking it back to the advent of the Enlightenment through the Great Depression, Versailles, the First World War and Bismarckian absolutism. The choice is wise, rendering postmodernist critique of the Enlightenment more intelligible and equipping us with a clear methodological approach to deciphering today's dominant social-political currents. A must-read!


The BEST General Introduction to Nazi Germany
I had the extreme pleasure of taking Dr. Stackelberg's course at Gonzaga University in which he uses this book. What is in the course is in this book. Any person at all interested in studying Nazi Germany should start with this book. It clearly, concisely, and logically lays out the entire history of Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler's Germany was a joy to read, and I learned a great deal from it.



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