Germany, Hitler, and World War II: essays in modern German and world history

Collection of special studies illuminating the nature of the Nazi system and its impact on Germany and the world.

  • OCLC #: 30919782
  • ISBN #:
    • 0521474078
    • 9780521474078
    • 0521566266
    • 9780521566261
  • Call #: D757.W384 1995
  • Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice: Cambridge [England] ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Physical Description: vi, 347 pages ; 24 cm
  • General Notes:
    • Slightly rev. collection of conference lectures, periodical articles, etc.
  • Contents:
    • The defeat of Germany in 1918 and the European balance of power
    • National Socialist organization and foreign policy aims in 1927
    • The world through Hitler's eyes
    • The Nazi revolution : a war against human rights
    • Propaganda for peace and preparation for war
    • Hitler and England, 1933-1945 : pretense and reality
    • German foreign policy and Austria
    • Germany, Munich, and appeasement
    • A proposed compromise over Danzig in 1939?
    • The German generals and the outbreak of war, 1938-1939
    • Hitler's decision for war
    • German diplomacy toward the Soviet Union
    • The Nazi-Soviet pacts of 1939 : a half century later
    • From confrontation to cooperation : Germany and the United States, 1917-1949
    • Pearl Harbor : the German perspective
    • Global conflict : the interaction between the European and Pacific theaters of war in World War II
    • The "final solution" and the war in 1943
    • July 20, 1944 : the German resistance to Hitler
    • D-Day after fifty years : assessments of costs and benefits
    • German plans for victory, 1944-1945
    • Reflections on running a war : Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Tojo
    • Some thoughts on World War II
    • A new Germany in a new world
    • Appendix. The end of Ranke's history? : reflections on the fate of history in the twentieth century.