Episode 205 - Normality Under Nazism, Part I

The aggression and militarization of society in Nazi Germany may have been most openly expressed in its rearmament and bellicose foreign policy, but a critical element too was in how that state engaged with its own people. Getting everyone onboard with a general war was no small task for a state in its infancy, and this week I start taking a look at how Nazism engaged with people on the street. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

1. Gellately, Robert Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis Oxford University Press 2020
2. Tooze, Adam Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy Penguin Books 2006
3. Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power Penguin Press 2005
4. Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis W.W. Norton and Company 2000
5. Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris W.W. Norton and Company 1998

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