Nazism 1919-1945, Volume Four: The German Home Front in World War II - A Documentary Reader: Vol. 4 (Exeter Studies in History) - Softcover

Jeremy Noakes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859893111 ISBN 13: 9780859893114

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 1998

Synopsis

Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in wartime Germany: government and party, law and terror, welfare and social planning, sex and population policy, women, youth, propoganda, morale and resistance.

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Review:

..". triumphant finale to a remarkable publishing enterprise which began life almost a quarter of a century ago ... [and] required reading for anyone in the Anglophone world with an academic interest in Nazism. The immense value of the current, and final, volume in the series lies not so much in the continuing tradition of clearly written text and imaginatively chosen documents, though these virtues survive, as in the fact that much of the history of the home front is still relatively virgin territory. The documentary thread running through the text has to tell a story which cannot easily be discovered from any other source. ... None of the entries is superfluous; each tells a part of the wider story, which is unobtrusively woven around the documents by a deft editorial hand. This is no ordinary document collection."--Times Literary Supplement

Synopsis:

Volume 4 of this series of documents with commentary illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in wartime Germany: government and party, law and terror, welfare and social planning, sex and population policy, women, youth, propaganda, morale and resistance. The documents in the four volumes of this series are drawn from a wide range of sources - official and party documents, memoirs, letters, diareis and newspapers - and are linked with a commentary. The combination of documents and commentary represents at the same time a textbook, a contribution to scholarship and a source book for students and historians.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0859893111
• ISBN 13: 9780859893114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 710
• Editor: Jeremy Noakes