Contents
Preface.............................................................ix
Introduction: the problems of writing about National Socialism.......1
1 Fascism and the conservative tradition: fascist ideology,
constituency, and conditions for its growth.........................12
2 The problem of German unity: absolutism and particularism.........24
3 The German Empire: the containment of democracy, social
imperialism, and the road to war....................................33
4 Germanic ideology: nationalism, vulgarized idealism, and
anti-Semitism.......................................................42
5 The First World War: the crisis of imperial Germany...............54
6 The Weimar Republic and the weakness of liberal democracy.........63
7 The collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression
and the rise of the Nazis...........................................82
8 The Nazi consolidation of power, 1933-4..........................100
9 Society, culture, and the state in the Thir ... read full excerpt from Hitler's Germany ebook
