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OverviewThe Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of 'race enemies', slave workers, and social outsiders. To answer these questions, and to explore the public sides of Nazi persecution, Robert Gellately has consulted an array of primary documents. He argues that the Nazis did not cloak their radical approaches to 'law and order' in utter secrecy, but played them up in the press and loudly proclaimed the superiority of their system over all others. They publicized their views by drawing on popular images, cherished German ideals and long held phobias, and were able to win over converts to their cause. The author traces the story from 1933, and shows how war and especially the prospect of defeat radicalized Nazism. As the country spiralled toward defeat, Germans for the most part held on stubbornly. For anyone who contemplated surrender or resistance, terror became the order of the day. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert GellatelyPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.752kg ISBN: 9780198205609ISBN 10: 0198205600 Pages: 377 Publication Date: 01 June 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Turning away from Weimar; police justice; concentration camps and media reports; shadows of war; social outsiders; injustice and the Jews; special ""Justice"" for foreign workers; enemies in the ranks; concentration camps in public spaces; dictatorship and people at the end of the Third Reich."ReviewsAs a whole Backing Hitler brings together in a scholarly yet readable way a number of different facets of the German domestic scene. Journal of Jewish Studies Fascinating study of coercion and consent. Not only does [Gellately] provide an admirable synthesis of the mass of secondary literature ... that has appeared over the past decade or so, but he also contributes important new insights through his own research. It is a major contribution to the study of Nazism. Times Literary Supplement An intriguing and illuminating new book. Niall Ferguson, Mail on Sunday Just how much the ordinary German knew about the apparatus of terror and discrimination in the Hitler years is the subject of Robert Gellately's fascinating and disturbing account of the bonds that drew regime and people together after 1933. Richard Overy, The Sunday Telegraph In 1933 Germans hankered for a return to traditional values of order, family, discipline, work. Noone could forsee how such ordinary aspirations would eventuate in that most extreme act, genocide. But this is one lesson the Nazis teach us and, thanks to Robert Gellately's fine book, it is available for all to learn. David Cesarani, The Independent Well-written and scholarly ... fascinating but amazingly neglected subject ... this book deserves a wide readership. History Today Author InformationRobert Gellately is the Strassler Professor in Holocaust History at Clark University, and is the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945. He lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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