Nazi Germany

Pamela E. Swett is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University, Canada. She is the author of Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Weimar Berlin, 1929-1933 (2004) and Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany (2014). She is also the co-editor, along with S. Jonathan Wiesen and Jonathan Zatlin, of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007), as well as Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany (2011), alongside Corey Ross, and Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (2022), with Moritz Föllmer.S. Jonathan Wiesen is Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He is the author of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (2001), which won the Hagley Prize in Business History, and Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich (2011). He is also the co-editor, along with Pamela Swett and Jonathan Zatlin, of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007). Wiesen and Swett also co-edited the Nazi era chapters of the German Historical Institute’s Historical Documents and Images online portal, for which they added hundreds of new documents, maps, tables, sound clips, still images, and moving images.

Pamela Swett and Jonathan Wiesen have written what is likely to become the new standard single volume synthesis of Nazi Germany … The prose is smooth and authoritative, delivered in a singular voice and with a commendable economy of language.

• List of ImagesList of Maps and ChartsIntroduction 1 The German Reich, Weimar, and the Birth of National Socialism 2 The National Socialist Rise to Power 3 Consolidating the Nazi Regime and Building a Police State 4 Racism and Biopolitics 5 Economy and Society 6 Arts and Culture 7 Youth, Gender, and Sexuality8 Nazi Germany and the World 9 War and Empire, 1939–42 10 The Holocaust 11 Resistance and Rescue 12 Defeat, 1943–5 Select BibliographyIndex