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Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gellately, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- National socialism--Psychological aspects--Germany.
- National socialism.
- Nazi concentration camps--Germany.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Propaganda.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Public opinion.
- War crimes--Germany--Public opinion.
- War crimes.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Germany--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 359 p., [24] p. of plates) : ill., facsims., ports.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Backing Hitler
- Place of Publication:
- Cary : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9786610445189
- 9780191676697
- 1-280-44518-1
- OCLC:
- 1027204166
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