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Map of Nazi Germany 1942 -- 1. Weimar and the Rise of National Socialism -- The Weimar Republic -- The Drift to the Right -- The NSDAP as a Mass Party and Expectations of Salvation -- The Struggle for Power -- The Government of Franz von Papen -- The Government of Kurt von Schleicher -- 2. The Conquest of Power 1933-1938 -- Mobilization and Terror -- The Gleichschaltung of the Political System -- The Transformation of Germany Society without a 'Second Revolution' -- From the 'Rohm Putsch' to the 'Blomberg Crisis' in 1938 -- 3. Preparing for War -- Hitler and the Second Attempt to Make Germany a World Power -- The Change of Course, 1933 -- War Preparations at Home: The Economy and Rearmament -- The Alliance with Great Britain: Unattainable -- The Rearmament of the Wehrmacht -- The War-Orientated Economy and Foreign Trade -- The Four Year Plan of 1936 as Economic Preparation for War -- The Policy of Expansion: From Spain to Austria -- The Way to War -- 4. The Fuhrer State -- Formal Power and the Readiness to Believe -- The German Public and the Fuhrer Cult -- The 'Little Fuhrers' -- Competition and Rivalry within the NSDAP -- Functional Power: Todt and Speer -- The Propaganda Chief: Joseph Goebbels -- National Socialist Mass Organizations: The Workers and the Rural Population -- Goring's Personal Empire -- Himmler, the SS, and Terror -- 'Polyocracy' and the National Community -- The Matrix of Totalitarian Imagery: Public Space, the National Socialist Year, and the Generational Cycle -- 5. The War -- Military Battles and Political Alliances -- The 'Ostracizing' of Enemies: Persecution and Expulsion -- The War against Enemies within the Nazi Imperium in Europe -- Occupation Policy and Power Structures in German-Dominated Europe -- 6. Origins, Breaks, and After-Effects: On the Social History and Politics of the 'National Community'. |
