Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians.
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new account shows, it was an empire built on an illusion.
From Hitler's plans for vast motorways crossing an ethnically cleansed Russian steppe, to dreams of a German super-economy rivalling America's, Mazower reveals the lethal fusion of mass murder, modern managerialism and colossal incompetence that underpinned the Nazi New Order. Ultimately Hitler's empire ended up consuming its own, leaving destruction in its wake and finishing not just with the downfall of Germany, but an entire continent.
Author(s): Mark Mazower
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 768
Tags: History;WWII;WW2;War;Nazis;Germany;Hitler;World War;America;USA;Europe;Nazism;Berlin;Diary;Nazi Party;Politics;NKVD;NSDAP;Gestapo;World History;Stalin;Winston Churchill;Franklin D. Roosevelt;
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List of Maps
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface: The View from Varzin
Introduction
PART 1: For Greater Germany
1 Germans and Slavs: 1848–1918
2 Versailles to Vienna
3 Expansion and Escalation: 1938–40
4 The Partition of Poland
5 Summer 1940
6 War of Annihilation: Into the Soviet Union
7 Make This Land German for Me Again!
8 Organizing Disorder: 1941–2
PART 2: The New Order
9 Making Occupation Pay
10 Workers
11 Ersatz Diplomacy
12 The Final Solution: the Jewish Question
13 Collaboration
14 Eastern Helpers
15 Opposition
16 Hitler Kaputt!
PART 3: Perspectives
17 We Europeans
18 The New Order in World History
Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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