Hitler and Nazi Germany
(Book)

Adolf Hitler : early life, ideology, and rise to power, 1889-1933. Family background and early life ; Hitler's Vienna years, 1908-13 ; Hitler moves to Munich, 1913 ; Hitler at war ; The early growth of the Nazi Party ; The Munich beer hall putsch ; Hitler's ideology and aims ; Hitler's rise to power ; Document case study

The Nazi sate and economy. The consolidation of power, 1933-34 ; The Nazi state ; The economy in Nazi Germany ; Document case study

Life inside Nazi Germany : social and cultural developments. The rituals of Nazi power ; Property ownership ; The army ; Law and order ; The family ; Education ; Youth ; Women ; Propaganda ; Health ; Document case study

Opposition and resistance inside Nazi Germany. The church ; The army and Foreign Office ; Communist resistance ; The Kreisau Circle ; Industrial works ; Social Democrats ; University students ("White Rose Movement") ; Youth protest ; Humour ; Document case study

Foreign policy : Hitler's road to war, 1933-39. Hitler moves cautiously ; German rearmament ; The Abyssinian crisis ; The occupation of the Rhineland ; The Spanish Civil War ; Relations with Italy, Japan, and Britain ; The Hossbach memorandum ; The Anschluss ; The Czech crisis ; The Munich agreement ; Poland under threat ; The prelude to the Nazi-Soviet pact ; The outbreak of the Second World War ; Document case study

Hitler at war, 1939-45. Hitler as war lord ; The successful Nazi Blitzkrieg, 1939-40 ; The Battle of Britain, 1940 ; Hitler decides to attack the Soviet Union ; Operation Barbarossa : the first phase, 22 June-December 1941 ; The Germany campaign in the Soviet Union, 1942-3 ; Military defeats for the Axis powers, 1942-44 ; The attack in western Europe ; The final assault on Nazi Germany, 1944-45 ; The last days of Hitler ; Document case study

Mass murder under Nazi rule. The development of anti-Semitism ; Jewish discrimination in Nazi Germany, 1933-37 ; The growth of radical anti-Semitism, 1937-39 ; The euthanasia programme, 1939-41 ; The persecution of the Jews, 1939-41 ; The movement toward the Final Solution ; The transition to systematic extermination : mass shootings in the Soviet Union ; The Wannsee Conference (1942) ; The administration of death ; The extermination camps ; The broader dimensions of Nazi genocide ; The singular fate of the Jews ; Document case study

The verdict of historians. The problems of debate ; Adolf Hitler ; master of Nazi Germany? ; Foreign policy ; A social revolution? ; The historians and the Nazi economy ; The Holocaust.