• An up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history of Nazi Germany
• Ten chapters, each written by an expert in the field, covering all the most important themes in the history of National Socialism
• Includes chapters on Nazi ideology; the Nazi seizure of power; the organization of the Nazi 'national community'; the relationship between Nazism and Germany's religious faiths; Nazi economics; foreign policy and the path to war; the intertwining of war and genocide; and Nazism in German post-war history and memory

Readership: All students of Nazi Germany, the Second World War, or Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.

Edited by Jane Caplan, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford

"Jane Caplan's book encompasses overviews on the most important topics on an up-to-date level by experts who have established reputations from major research publications on their area...in their effort to combine precise information with balanced reflection of historical perspectives, most of those chapters achieve a remarkably high level of density while still being readable. This is no small achievement." - Magnus Brechtken, Times Higher Education Supplement

Jane Caplan: Introduction
1: Richard J. Evans: The Emergence of Nazi Ideology
2: Peter Fritzsche: The NSDAP, 1919-34: From Fringe Politics to the Seizure of Power
3: Jeremy Noakes: Hitler and the Nazi State: Leadership, Hierarchy, and Power
4: Jill Stephenson: Inclusion: Building the National Community in Propaganda and Practice
5: Nikolaus Wachsmann: The Policy of Exclusion: Repression in the Nazi State, 1933-9
6: Richard Steigmann-Gall: Religion and the Churches
7: Adam Tooze: The Economic History of the Nazi Regime
8: Gerhard L. Weinberg: Foreign Policy in Peace and War
9: Doris L. Bergen: Occupation, Imperialism and Genocide, 1939-45
10: Robert G. Moeller: The Third Reich in Postwar German Memory
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps