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Nazism and War

Nazism and War

Bessel, Richard

Paperback

Series: Modern Library Chronicles

General Political ScienceGerman HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 081297557X
ISBN13: 9780812975574
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Nov 14 2006
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
An incendiary work of scholarship arguing that racism was the driving force behind Nazism, rather than a by-product of it--essential reading in an age of renewed fears of bigotry, tyranny, and fascism.

World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century, redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war's scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the war launched by Nazi Germany was an ideological one, waged to wipe entire peoples and cultures from the face of the earth.

In Nazism and War, Richard Bessel, one of the preeminent authorities on the social and political history of modern Germany, demonstrates that Nazi war was racial struggle; Nazi racial struggle was war.

War was the anvil on which Hitler's worldview was forged: German National Socialism emerged triumphant over a country deeply scarred by defeat and eager to reclaim its greatness. As a political philosophy, Nazism glorified struggle and conflict, viewing them as the purpose of a nation and a measure of its overall condition. As a political movement and state system, Nazism made its ideology real, plunging the European continent into a war of annihilation and a sea of blood. Nazism destroyed the old Europe, and thus helped to create the world in which we live.

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