The Nazi Empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping ever undertaken in Europe's history. It was an attempt, under conditions of continuous war, to create a permanent, new racial order. This Empire rapidly collapsed in military failure, but its destruction cost millions of lives, and for many millions of others it was too late: they had already been killed by an ideology that embraced a future Europe 'cleansed' of 'alien elements'. This incredible trauma scars Europe to the present day and yet no book has been written which attempts to view the Nazi Empire as a whole and which takes seriously the chaotic, evolving ideas behind Nazi rule. HITLER'S EMPIRE is therefore both a very important book and an absolutely chilling one.
| Autor: | Mazower, Mark |
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| ISBN: | 9780713996814 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Penguin Books |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.01.2008 |
| Untertitel: | Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe |
| Schlagworte: | Europa : Geschichte Nationalsozialismus |
Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, The Balkans, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He has taught at the University of Sussex, Princeton University and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is now Professor of History at Columbia University.