By Roderick Stackelberg, Sally A. Winkle
The Nazi Germany Sourcebook is a thrilling new choice of files at the origins, upward push, direction and results of nationwide Socialism, the 3rd Reich, the second one global conflict, and the Holocaust.
Packed choked with either legit and personal papers from the views of perpetrators and sufferers, those assets provide a revealing perception into why Nazism got here into being, its outstanding recognition within the Nineteen Thirties, the way it affected the lives of individuals, and what it ability to us today.
This rigorously edited sequence of 148 files, drawn from 1850 to 2000, covers the pre-history and aftermath of Nazism:
* the ideological roots of Nazism, and the 1st global War
* the Weimar Republic
* the consolidation of Nazi power
* Hitler's causes, goals and guidance for war
* the second one global War
* the Holocaust
* the chilly conflict and up to date historic debates.
The Nazi Germany Sourcebook makes a speciality of key components of analysis, supporting scholars to appreciate and seriously assessment this striking ancient episode:
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His books enjoyed a wide readership among the educated public in the Wilhelmian Empire. His widely acclaimed Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, from which these excerpts are taken, was first published in 1899 and went through 28 editions by 1942. A confidant of Wilhelm II, with whom he corresponded for over twenty years (see Doc. 5), and an early supporter of Hitler (see Doc. 12), Chamberlain personified the ideological link between the Second Empire and the Third Reich. The Foundations was a political tract disguised as history and anthropology.
A state like the Prussian, which by the qualities of its people was always freer and more rational internally than the French, might indeed, because of transient enervation, come near to destruction, but it was able again to remember its inner nature and maintain its superiority. One must say in the 2 3 General Karl von Clausewitz (1770–1831) was the author of the classic study, On War (1833), in which he maintained that war was the continuation of politics by other means. Treitschke is here referring to the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, which led to the unification of northern and central Germany under Prussia.
But there is one. The Jewish nomocracy (that is, rule of law) unites the Jews, no matter how scattered they may be over all the lands of the world, into a firm, uniform, and absolutely political organism in which community of blood testifies to a common past and gives a guarantee for a common future. Though it has many elements not purely Jewish in the narrower sense of the word, yet the power of this blood, united with the incomparable power of the Jewish idea, is so great that these alien elements have long ago been assimilated; for nearly two thousand years have passed since the time when the Jews gave up their temporary inclination to proselytising.
