Title The social history of the Third Reich : 1933-1945 / Pierre Aycoberry ; translated from the French by Janet Lloyd

Published New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 1999

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Description 380 pages ; 22 cm Contents Pt. 1. The invasion of politics : 1933-1939 -- 1. Violence -- Brute violence : the SA -- Systematic terror : the SS -- The victims : the discontented and those who resisted -- The victims : "those alien to the community" -- The concentration camps -- 2. The myth of the people's community -- A community of the people, or of the race? -- The strategy of communication -- The party : was it a prefiguration or a caricature of the community? -- How the myth was received by public opinion -- 3. The illusions, collusions, and disillusions of the elites -- Doubts of the leading social groups -- Getting everyone to "fall into line," 1933-1934 -- "Continue to function" at least, 1934-1938 -- 4. The conquest of the masses -- Were the middle classes rewarded? -- A disintegrating working class -- The conquest of women and young people -- 5. Radicalization, 1938-1939 -- The battle against the churches -- Marching as to war -- Pt. 2. Wartime society : 1939-1945 -- 6. The dissolution of civil society -- Families split apart -- Towns reduced to rubble : resourcefulness and new solidarities -- The mixing and migrations of rural populations -- Militarized workers -- 7. The Nazi party and the social authorities -- The high-ranking officials : caught between impotence and conspiracy -- The ambitions and the discredit of the party -- The major business bosses move toward limitless expansion -- 8. Toward Utopia through terror -- The SS empire -- How to live with ten million excluded people -- The final solution to "the Jewish question" -- 9. The front and the rear -- The avenging army, 1939-1940 -- The crusading army, 1941-1943 -- The Wehrmacht and war crimes -- The military plots and the defeat -- Morale at the rear Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page <356>-377) and index Subject National characteristics, German. National socialism -- Germany. National socialism. Political culture -- Germany. SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640 Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054658 Author Lloyd, Janet, 1934- LC no. 99014059 ISBN 1565845498 1565846354 (paperback)

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