Germany 1918 - 1945

Book B T Batsford, London, 1964. Hard Cover. 8 Charts & Maps (illustrator). Name and dateon ffep. 8 Charts & Maps. 208 pages clean and tight. For anybody under the age of 25, the events of Hitler's rule in Germany belong to history. Since those events did so much to decide what is happening now, they are still the subject of constant discussion-all too often on the basis of inadequate or misleading information. Where schools and colleges have included the study of the Nazi era and the Second World War in their curriculum, they have done so despite the lack of suitable textbooks on the period. There is, therefore, a real need in schools and elsewhere for a straightforward account of Nazi Germany and its dealings with the rest of the world. Richard Grunberger makes extensive use of his research on the period at the University of London in this survey of German history between 1918 and 1945 and in particular the barbaric regime which Hitler imposed on Germany and her neighbours. In his first three chapters Mr. Grunberger examines the historical, social, economic and political factors which gave rise to the Nazi movement. He deals next with the extraordinary circumstances that accompanied Germany's capitulation to the Nazi party. The workings of the Third Reich, its personnel, festivals and ideology, are fully explained. In his last chapters Mr. Grunberger describes the course of the Second World War, the climax of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and the confrontation of Russia and America in the ruins of Hitler's New Order. The narrative is supplemented by summaries of the essential developments in German domestic and foreign affairs, and by specially prepared maps and diagrams.