Hitler and Nazism By Dick Geary هیتلر و نازیسم

Hitler and Nazism

By Dick Geary

هیتلر و نازیسم

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Focusing on the key themes of Nazi domestic policy, Dick Geary organises the results of recent research into a concise analysis of the nature of Nazi rule and its impact on German society. He explores Hitler’s views and their role in the Third Reich; the factors that brought the party to power; the structure and nature of government in the Third Reich; and the origins and implementation of the Holocaust. Particular emphasis is placed on the basis of voter support for the party and the nature and success of Nazi propaganda.

Dick Geary is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham

Preface

At the end of January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor. Within a few months his National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) – the Nazis – had suspended civil liberties, destroyed almost all independent economic, social and political organisations and established a one-party state. That state persecuted many of its own citizens, at first primarily the Nazis’ political opponents, the Communists and Social Demo-crats.
As time passed and with breakneck speed, the doors of the prisons and gates of the concentration camps were opened to take in other ‘undesirable’ groups in German society: delinquents, the ‘work-shy’, tramps, homosexuals freemasons, members of religious sects such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, and most notoriously the racial minorities of gypsies and Jews. In 1939 the Third Reich unleashed what became, especially on its Eastern front, a war of almost unparalleled barbarism and slaughter.

Whilst the mentally ill and incurably infirm were murdered in the ‘euthanasia’ programme, various organisations of state, Party and the army embarked upon the attempted extermination of European Jewry. With such a record it is scarcely surprising that the rise of Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich have been subjected to the most massive historical scrutiny.