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Tables of Contents for Weimar and Nazi Germany
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of maps
viii
List of tables
ix
Acknowledgements
x
Preface
xi
Notes on the contributors
xiii
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Continuities and discontinuities in German history, 1919-1945
3
30
Panikos Panayi
Introduction
3
1
The historical background
4
4
The Weimar Republic
8
3
Nazism
11
7
The legacy of Weimar and the Third Reich
18
15
PART TWO: WELMAR AND NAZI GERMANY: A SURVEY
The German economy, 1919-1945
33
41
Richard Overy
The pattern of development
34
14
The `primacy of politics': state, ideology and economics
48
4
Industry and labour
52
9
Germany and the world economy
61
13
Did Hitler create a new society? Continuity and change in German social history before and after 1933
74
31
Hartmut Berghoff
The largest social groups in Germany
77
15
Social mobility and elite recruitment
92
6
Conclusion
98
7
The transition from Weimar to the Third Reich: the political dimension
105
29
Edgar Feuchtwanger
Revolution and restoration in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship
105
2
Hitler's use of legality as a tactical device
107
1
The formation of presidential cabinets from 1930
108
2
The Reichswehr as a factor of continuity between Weimar and the Third Reich
110
3
Stages in the transition from democracy to dictatorship
113
2
The bureaucracy as a factor of continuity
115
3
Deception and ideological confusion in the establishment of dictatorship
118
1
The SA and a `second revolution'
119
2
The Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934
121
2
The Hitler myth and the Fuhrer-state
123
2
Remaining factors of continuity
125
3
War as an instrument of radicalization
128
6
German foreign policy in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, 1919-1945
134
39
Imanuel Geiss
The historical background before 1918
134
6
The Weimar Republic, 1918/19-1933: a systematic approach
140
5
Foreign policy of the Weimar Republic: a chronological approach, 1918-1933
145
7
The Third Reich, 1933-1945: a systematic approach
152
4
The Third Reich: a chronological approach, 1933-1945
156
17
PART THREE: ECONOMICS, SOCIETY, POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY, 1919-1945: KEY THEMES
Big business and the continuities of German history, 1900-1945
173
26
J. Adam Tooze
German business and the postwar historians
175
5
Re-envisioning continuity
180
5
Betriebsgemeinschaft: the community of labour
185
3
Corporate diplomacy
188
3
Conclusion
191
8
Women and the family
199
19
Lisa Pine
Eugenics
202
3
Marriage, divorce, birth control and abortion
205
4
Family welfare
209
3
Conclusion
212
6
Continuities and discontinuities in race: Jews, Gypsies and Slavs under the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
218
28
Panikos Panayi
Introduction
218
3
The Weimar Republic
221
5
Peacetime Nazism
226
4
The ethnic hell of wartime Nazism
230
7
Continuities and discontinuities
237
9
The extreme right
246
27
Lee McGowan
The political backdrop: the Weimar Republic
247
3
The German National Socialist Workers Party
250
2
Political violence and the extreme right
252
3
Distilling continuity and discontinuity: the case of Nazi ideology
255
2
Distilling continuity and discontinuity: the extreme right ascendant, 1933-1945
257
11
Conclusions
268
5
The SPD
273
20
Stefan Berger
The Weimar SPD and the burden of its history
275
2
The legacy of the 1918 revolution for the self-understanding of the Weimar SPD
277
3
The SPD's fight against National Socialism
280
4
The failure of gradualism? Reconsidering Social Democracy after 1933
284
4
The legacy of Weimar and Nazi Germany for the postwar development of Social Democracy
288
5
`Preaching the gospel of reasonableness': Anglo-German relations, 1919-1939
293
34
G.T. Waddington
In the shadow of Versailles, 1919-1923
293
4
Tea for three? The Locarno honeymoon, 1924-1929
297
8
Hiatus, 1930-1933
305
2
Leviathan and Behemoth, 1933-1939
307
10
Conclusion: the `necessary war'?
317
10
Maps
327
3
Glossary
330
4
Index
334