Backing Hitler

by Gellately, Robert

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Title Statements

Full title :Backing Hitler.

Summary

The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most Germans turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler was able to win growing support even as he established the Gestapo and the concentration camps. Yet for over fifty years historians have disputed what the German people knew about these camps and in what ways they were involved in the persecution of 'race enemies', slave workers, and social outsiders. This book looks at these issues. The book aims to expose once and for all the subsequent consent and active participation of large numbers of ordinary Germans in the terror. It shows that rather than hide their racist and repressive campaigns from the German people the Nazis trumpeted them in the national papers and on the streets. It reveals how they drew on popular images, cherished German ideals, and long-held phobias to win converts to their cause.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Cary
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 359 p., [24] p. of plates) : : ill., facsims., ports.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9786610445189, 6610445184, 9780198205609, 0198205600, 1280445181, 9781280445187
oclc:on1316600120
LC Classification:DD256.5
Dewey Decimal:943.086

Subjects

Germany Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 Germany -- Race relations History Hitler, Adolf Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources National socialism -- Psychological asp… National socialism-Psychological aspects Nazi concentration camps Nazi concentration camps -- Germany Propaganda Race relations Sources War crimes -- Public opinion War crimes -- Public opinion. -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda. -- …