"In this work, Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft - a "people's community" that appealed to Germans as a great project of renovation to make the country united and unassailable after its defeat in 1918. The goal was to create a new national and racial self-consciousness among Germans. For Germany to live, others - especially Jews - had to die. Thousands of camps across the Reich trained Germans, while thousands of camps later destroyed the enemies of the German people. Fritzsche examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new racial identities, to believe in the necessity of war, to accept the dynamic of unconditional destruction - in short, to become Nazis." "Powerful and provocative, Life and Death in the Third Reich is a chilling portrait of how ideology takes hold."--BOOK JACKET.
Authors
Peter Fritzsche
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2008-03-31
- Publisher: Belknap Press
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780674027930
