CATHERINE EPSTEIN is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of History at Amherst College. She is the prize-winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010). Her previous publications also include The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993).

List of Illustrations viii

Preface x

1 Germany before 1933 1

2 Hitler and the Nazi Movement 21

3 The Nazi Party-State 45

4 The Racial State 69

5 Nazi Germany in the 1930s: A Popular Regime? 97

6 War and Occupation, 1939–1941 123

7 Genocide 149

8 Total War, 1942–1945 179

Epilogue 211

Abbreviations and Glossary 223

Timeline 225

Index 229

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