| Description |
The new edition of this text by the popular history author, James Mason, has been rewritten to reflect the requirements of the New South Wales Year 12 Stage 6 Modern History course. The many and varied sources of the previous edition have been retained to encourage the students to ask historical questions and develop the essential skills of analysis and interpretation. New and interesting source questions have been introduced with the source material. |
| Key Features |
An extensive chapter on Leni Riefenstahl and Albert Speer to reflect the NSW Board of Studies requirement that students explore the role of personalities and the issue of choice during the Nazi era Extensive and varied primary and secondary source materials designed to encourage students to ask historical questions and to develop the essential skills of analysis and interpretation A detailed glossary with each chapter to assist students to master key concepts and terms The important historical debates and the differing interpretations of historians in explaining this period of German history Summaries of the key issues and arguments within each chapter Stimulating and carefully selected visual evidence that is intended to complement both the text and the sources
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| Table of Contents |
Chapter 1: War and Revolution Chapter 2: Democracy and the Weimar Republic Chapter 3: The Republic survives 1923-1929 Chapter 4: Hitler and the Nazi Party Chapter 5: The failure of Democracy: The Nazis come to power 1920-1933 Chapter 6: Establishing the totalitarian state, Germany 1933-1934 Chapter 7: Life in Nazi Germany Chapter 8: The film-maker and the architect: Leni Riefenstahl and Albert Speer Chapter 9: The state within the state: The Wehrmacht and the SS Chapter 10: The Jewish community and Nazi Germany Chapter 11: Foreign policy and the path to war Chapter 12: War and defeat |
