Hitler, The Germans, and the Final Solution - Hardcover

Ian Kershaw

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300124279 ISBN 13: 9780300124279

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections: Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography. Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism. Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. Taken together, the journal articles and book chapters selected for this volume present a comprehensive, multi-faceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behaviour of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.

About this title

Review:

"... a compilation of a lifetime's perceptive essays on the Holocaust and related matters."

About the Author:

Ian Kershaw is a highly acclaimed historian and professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. He is well known for his writings on Nazi Germany, especially his definitive two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis. He lives in Manchester.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300124279
• ISBN 13: 9780300124279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400