Richard J. Evans examines the internal mechanics of Germany between the Nazi seizure of power and the invasion of Poland. The text documents how the regime dismantled democratic institutions to establish a totalitarian state centered on racial hygiene and rearmament. Evans details the coordination of the judiciary, the conversion of the education system into a vehicle for propaganda, and the suppression of religious dissent. He explains how the administration leveraged economic recovery and public spectacles to secure civilian compliance while systematically isolating and persecuting Jewish citizens through the Nuremberg Laws and state-sanctioned violence.
Historians and students of twentieth-century geopolitics use this volume to understand the logistical reality of life under a dictatorship. The reader gains a precise technical overview of how a modern bureaucracy can be repurposed for ideological indoctrination and mass mobilization. By analyzing the intersection of domestic policy and private life, the reader identifies the specific methods used to silence political opposition and prepare a national economy for total war. It provides a factual foundation for analyzing the collapse of civil society.
Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- ISBN
- 9780718196813
- Language
- EN
