"Charles S. Maier is professor of history at Harvard University and resident associate of the Center for European Studies. He is the author of Recasting Bourgeois Europe. Stanley Hoffmann is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard and chair of the Center for European Studies. His numerous publications include Duties Beyond Borders and Living with Nuclear Weapons. Andrew Gould is pursuing his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley."

• Introduction -- How the Nazis Came to Power -- The Collapse of Weimar -- The Nazi Rise to Power: A Comprehensible Catastrophe -- Discussion -- The New Rulers and Their Values -- Nazism: Fascism or Totalitarianism? -- Comments on Reactionary Modernist Components of Nazi Ideology -- The New Nazi Rulers: Who Were They? -- Discussion -- The Institutional Structure -- Politics and Polyocracy: Notes on a Debate -- Traditional Elites and National Socialist Leadership -- Discussion -- Society Under Nazism: Accommodation and Resistance -- Women Between God and Führer -- Workers and National Socialism -- Organized Mass Culture in the Third Reich: The Women of Kraft durch Freude -- Workers’ Opposition in Nazi Germany: Recent West German Research -- Discussion -- The Impact Abroad -- Variety in Perception: Western Views of Nazi Germany -- France and Hitler: 1933–1936 -- Discussion -- The Place of Nazism in History -- A Roundtable Discussion

"Charles S. Maier is professor of history at Harvard University and resident associate of the Center for European Studies. He is the author of Recasting Bourgeois Europe. Stanley Hoffmann is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard and chair of the Center for European Studies. His numerous publications include Duties Beyond Borders and Living with Nuclear Weapons. Andrew Gould is pursuing his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley."

• Introduction -- How the Nazis Came to Power -- The Collapse of Weimar -- The Nazi Rise to Power: A Comprehensible Catastrophe -- Discussion -- The New Rulers and Their Values -- Nazism: Fascism or Totalitarianism? -- Comments on Reactionary Modernist Components of Nazi Ideology -- The New Nazi Rulers: Who Were They? -- Discussion -- The Institutional Structure -- Politics and Polyocracy: Notes on a Debate -- Traditional Elites and National Socialist Leadership -- Discussion -- Society Under Nazism: Accommodation and Resistance -- Women Between God and Führer -- Workers and National Socialism -- Organized Mass Culture in the Third Reich: The Women of Kraft durch Freude -- Workers’ Opposition in Nazi Germany: Recent West German Research -- Discussion -- The Impact Abroad -- Variety in Perception: Western Views of Nazi Germany -- France and Hitler: 1933–1936 -- Discussion -- The Place of Nazism in History -- A Roundtable Discussion