Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (1998) (winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History; shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year); and Nazism: A Reader (2000).

Taken together, the essays presented in this collection do a splendid job of summarizing and criticizing the state of our knowledge of the fields they cover. All are further characterized by a very accessible style and great readability. […] For now at least, this book is an ideal way for undergraduates, graduate students, lay people or specialists in other fields to quickly learn the essentials of our current knowledge of some of the central issues surrounding the history of the Third Reich.

• Contents Preface 1 Neil Gregor Nazism- A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn 2 Jane Caplan Political Detention and the Origin of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6 3 Dick Geary Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich 4 Robert Gellately Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933-1939 5 Nikolaus Wachsmann 'Soldiers of the Home Front': Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War 6 Jill Stephenson Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War 7 Ian Kershaw Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940?

Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (1998) (winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History; shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year); and Nazism: A Reader (2000).

Taken together, the essays presented in this collection do a splendid job of summarizing and criticizing the state of our knowledge of the fields they cover. All are further characterized by a very accessible style and great readability. […] For now at least, this book is an ideal way for undergraduates, graduate students, lay people or specialists in other fields to quickly learn the essentials of our current knowledge of some of the central issues surrounding the history of the Third Reich.

• Contents Preface 1 Neil Gregor Nazism- A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn 2 Jane Caplan Political Detention and the Origin of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6 3 Dick Geary Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich 4 Robert Gellately Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933-1939 5 Nikolaus Wachsmann 'Soldiers of the Home Front': Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War 6 Jill Stephenson Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War 7 Ian Kershaw Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940?

Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (1998) (winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History; shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year); and Nazism: A Reader (2000).

Taken together, the essays presented in this collection do a splendid job of summarizing and criticizing the state of our knowledge of the fields they cover. All are further characterized by a very accessible style and great readability. […] For now at least, this book is an ideal way for undergraduates, graduate students, lay people or specialists in other fields to quickly learn the essentials of our current knowledge of some of the central issues surrounding the history of the Third Reich.

• Contents Preface 1 Neil Gregor Nazism- A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn 2 Jane Caplan Political Detention and the Origin of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6 3 Dick Geary Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich 4 Robert Gellately Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933-1939 5 Nikolaus Wachsmann 'Soldiers of the Home Front': Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War 6 Jill Stephenson Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War 7 Ian Kershaw Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940?