Table of Contents:
  • The Weimar Republic in eclipse: The role of the personality in the crisis of the Weimar Republic: Hindenburg, Brüning, Groener, Schleicher / T. Eschenburg
  • The downfall of the old Social Democratic Party in 1933 / E. Matthias
  • The Third Reich: the period of consolidation: Stages of totalitarian "integration" (Gleichschaltung): the consolidation of National Socialist rule in 1933 and 1934 / K.D. Bracher
  • The Reichstag fire and its political consequences / H. Mommsen
  • The "second revolution" : June 30, 1934 / H. Mau
  • The totalitarian state: police, propaganda, national expansionism, culture: The position of the SS in the Third Reich / H. Buchheim
  • Goebbels' speech on total war, February 18, 1943 / G. Moltmann
  • National Socialist Europe ideology / P. Kluke
  • Art in the political power struggle of 1933 and 1934 / H. Brenner
  • The origins of inhumanity: social Darwinism in Germany, seen as a historical problem / H.G. Zmarzlik.