內容簡介
內容簡介 Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise andcompelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time,it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surroundingHitler and Nazi Germany. Creates a succinct, argument–driven overview for students byusing common myths and stereotypes to encourage critical engagementwith the subjectProvides an up–to–date historical synthesis based on the latestresearch in the fieldArgues that in order to fully understand and explain thisperiod of history, we need to address its seeming paradoxes for example, questioning why most Germans viewed the Third Reich asa legitimate government, despite the Nazis criminalityIncorporates useful study features, including a timeline,glossary, maps, and illustrations
作者介紹
作者介紹 Catherine Epstein is Dean of the Faculty and Professor ofHistory at Amherst College. She is the prize-winning authorof Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of WesternPoland (2010). Her previous publications also includeA Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historiansin the United States After 1933 (1993) and The LastRevolutionaries: German Communists and their Century (2003).Catherine Epstein is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History at Amherst College. She is the prize-winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010). Her previous publications also include The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993).