Research Catalog

Title

The Third Reich sourcebook / edited by Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman.

Publication

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rabinbach, Anson.
• Gilman, Sander L.

Description

xxvii, 923 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"This book is a collection of documents, mostly translated from the German, that covers the entire Third Reich, from the beginnings of National Socialism in Munich in 1919, through the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, and ultimately the defeat of the Third Reich. It is wide-ranging, covering the core doctrine of anti-Semitism, education, German youth, women and marriage, science, health, the Church, literature, visual arts, music, the body, industry, sports, and the resistance"--

Series Statement

Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ; 47

Uniform Title

Weimar and now ; 47.

Subjects

• National socialism > Germany > History > Sources
• Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-886) and index.

Contents

Part one. The beginnings of National Socialism. The Munich years and the legacy of the war ; Nazism in power : 1933 ; The political religion : Führer cult, ceremonies, and symbol -- Part two. The National Socialist worldview. Between myth and doctrine ; Racial science ; Germany's colonial mission -- Part three. Antisemitism : the core doctrine. Jews : the visible enemy ; Eliminating the Jews : from the Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht -- Part four. Nationalizing German youth. Educating the race : children and adolescents ; Higher education : science, history, and philosophy revised -- Part five. The racial community. Women and "the woman question" ; Marriage and the family ; Eliminating "superfluous life" : "asocials," criminals, the handicapped, and the mentally ill ; Healthy and unhealthy sexuality ; The German soul and psyche -- Part six. The churches. The National Socialist state and Christianity -- Part seven. National Socialism and the arts. Literature : official culture and its outcasts ; The visual arts : German art vs. degenerate art ; Music : the Wagner cult vs. degenerate music ; Cinema : entertainment and propaganda ; Politics and entertainment : theater, radio, and television ; Jewish culture under Nazi persecution : the Jewish Cultural League -- Part eight. Work, industry, modernity. Industry and labor : The Four-Year-Plan, Beauty of labor, and Strength through joy ; Modernizing Germany : The Autobahn and Americanism -- Part nine. Body culture, sports, public amusements. The 1936 Olympics and the world of sports ; "Amusmang" : laughter in the Third Reich -- Part ten. War, conquest, and the annihilation of the Jews. The Holocaust begins : violence, deportation, and ghettoization, 1939-1942 ; The annihilation of European Jewry, 1942-1945 ; Total war, 1939-1945 -- Part eleven. Resistance. Communists, socialists, youth, and the conservative resistance -- Part 12. Defeat. Hitler's last will and testament.

Call Number

JFF 13-1402

ISBN

• 9780520208674 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520208676 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520276833
• 9780520276833
• 9780520955141 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012050019

OCLC

818734491

Title

The Third Reich sourcebook / edited by Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman.

Publisher

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ; 47

Weimar and now ; 47.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-886) and index.

Added Author

Rabinbach, Anson.

Gilman, Sander L.

Research Call Number

JFF 13-1402