Backing Hitler
Robert Gellately
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Description for Backing Hitler
Paperback. Hitler won support even as he established the Gestapo and concentration camps. What has been in dispute is exactly what the Germans knew about these camps, and how they were involved. The author traces the story from 1933, and shows how war and the prospect of defeat radicalized Nazism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of 'race enemies', slave workers, and social outsiders. To answer these questions, and to explore the public sides of Nazi persecution, Robert Gellately has consulted an array of primary ... Read more
The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of 'race enemies', slave workers, and social outsiders. To answer these questions, and to explore the public sides of Nazi persecution, Robert Gellately has consulted an array of primary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
378
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192802910
SKU
V9780192802910
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About Robert Gellately
Robert Gellately is Professor in Holocaust History at Clark University, Massacuhsetts, USA.
Reviews for Backing Hitler
This book will not be the last word on the subject but it will encourage the debate and increase our desire to understand fully the horrible things that happened to and in a civilised nation.
Contempoary Review, Vol.278, No.1625, June 2001
Review from previous edition In 1933 Germans ... hankered for a return to traditional values of order, ... Read more
Contempoary Review, Vol.278, No.1625, June 2001
Review from previous edition In 1933 Germans ... hankered for a return to traditional values of order, ... Read more