Description: Preface to the Second Edition. Chronology. Introduction: the Problems of Writing About National Socialism 1. Fascism and the Conservative Tradition: Fascist Ideology, Constituency, and Conditions for its Growth 2. The Problem of German Unity: Absolutism and Particularism 3. The German Empire: the Containment of Democracy, Social Imperialism, and the Road to War 4. Germanic Ideology: Nationalism, Vulgarized Idealism, and Antisemitism 5. The First World War: the Crisis of Imperial Germany 6. The Weimar Republic and the Weakness of Liberal Democracy 7. The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis 8. The Nazi Consolidation of Power, 1933 1934 9. Economy, Society, and the State in the Third Reich 10. Education, Culture, Religion, and Eugenics in the Third Reich 11. Persecution of the Jews, 1933 1939 12. The Origins of the Second World War 13. The Second World War: From European to Global war, 1939 1941 14. The Second World War: From Triumph to Defeat, 1942 1945 15. The Holocaust 16. Continuities and New Beginnings: the Aftermath of National Socialism and War 17. The Historians' Debate: the Place of Hitler's Reich in German History and Memory. Select Bibliography

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