Nazi Years: A Documentary History [Paperback]

Joachim Remak (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1990 | ISBN-10: 0881335274 | ISBN-13: 978-0881335279

The Nazi Years brings together documents that tell the whole essential story of National Socialism, from its obscure ideological beginnings to its seizure of power to the exercise of that power in Germany and abroad--to the bitter end of the Third Reich. Historian Joachim Remak has collected, and has introduced with illuminating commentaries, key letters, speeches, memoirs, political tracts, secret memos and tabulations--written by the actors, victims, or simple witnesses of the time. Here is the fanatical enthusiasm of dedicated Nazis as revealed in their own writings--a catalog of anti-Semitism and propaganda, volkisch idealism and pan-Germanism, ideas of "natural selection" and "race eugenics." Here too is the history of sincere but ill-fated resistance to Nazism by church people and plain citizens, of the anti-Nazi underground, and of Count von Stauffenberg's plot to assassinate Hitler. Now available from Waveland Press, these vivid accounts by Germans at every level of society and of every political and moral persuasion provide a shattering view of one of the most terrible, tempestuous periods of modern history.

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Title off related interest from Waveland Press: Wright, The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945 (ISBN 9780881339727).

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"Remak includes useful selections on occupation policy, eugenics, anti-Semitism, and the resistance to Hitler. His narrative provides unity and coherence. Most of the selections are translated from German sources and are unavailable in English elsewhere." (Library Journal)

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc (August 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881335274
• ISBN-13: 978-0881335279
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book, June 27, 2006

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Prof Aharon Loewenstein (Haifa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nazi Years: A Documentary History (Paperback)

The book consists of a very well chosen collection of documents (of different sorts), joined with introductory paragraphs by the Historian Joachim Remak. The book presents a concise, basic, description of the Nazi regime. All parts are interesting to read and very instructive. The book provides much material for further thought.

The only fault of the book is the lack of an Index. An index would facilitate the back search of topics and names.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THE NAZI YEARS, October 27, 2008

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merc1949 (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nazi Years: A Documentary History (Touchstone Books) (Paperback)

This book covers the Nazi's very well at some points it gets kind of deep but if your intrested in National Socialism it's a good sorce of info.

0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Came on time, October 19, 2005

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K. Wilkinson (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nazi Years: A Documentary History (Paperback)

The book I ordered came on time and was in the condition the saler described.