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Backing Hitler: Consent And Coercion In Nazi Germany Paperback – Illustrated, 16 May 2002

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    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    16 May 2002
  6. Language
    English
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    23.4 x 15.6 x 1.51 cm
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"Books on the Holocaust and Nazism now number in the tens of thousands. Of that vast library, a handful of texts should be deemed essential reading for any serious student of the bloody and pathetic 20th century. Robert Gellately's Backing Hitler is among them."--Washington Post Book World

"Readers will notice that Gellately offers a far more sophisticated argument and more abundant evidence than Daniel Goldhagen's cause celebre, 'Hitler's Willing Executioners.' In truth, Gellately's work is what Goldhagen's book could have been, but wasn't; that is, a closely reasoned and tightly constructed analysis."--Publishers Weekly

"In this original and outstanding book, Gellately uses a wealth of new source materials, including the daily press, to examine the public face of the Nazi 'law and order' dictatorship, in the process contributing much to our understanding of the extent to which it basked in social consensus....This is a genuinely important book which deserves the widest possible readership."--Michael Burleigh, Washington and Lee University

"Superbly researched and convincingly argued, this path breaking study demonstrates that most Germans supported Hitler throughout the Nazi regime....A crucial contribution to our understanding of the relationship between consent and coercion in modern dictatorship."--Omer Bartov, Brown University

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This book will not be the last word on the subject but it will encourage the debate and increase our desire to understand fully the horrible things that happened to and in a civilised nation. ― Contempoary Review, Vol.278, No.1625, June 2001

Review from previous edition In 1933 Germans ... hankered for a return to traditional values of order, family, discipline, work. Noone could forsee how such ordinary aspirations would eventuate in that most extreme act, genocide. But this is one lesson the Nazis teach us and, thanks to Robert Gellately's fine book, it is available for all to learn. ― David Cesarani, The Independent

powerful and challenging book ― Richard Overy, The Sunday Telegraph

Just how much the ordinary German knew about the apparatus of terror and discrimination in the Hitler years is the subject of Robert Gellately's fascinating and disturbing account of the bonds that drew regime and people together after 1933. ― Richard Overy, The Sunday Telegraph

original and outstanding, genuinely important. ― Michael Burdesh

Backing Hitler is based on the first systematic analysis by a historian of surviving German newspaper and magazine archives since 1933, the year Hitler became chancellor. ― John Ezard, The Guardian

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (16 May 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192802917
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192802910
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.51 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and recently was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth-Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University. He is the author of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe; The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945; and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A truly excellent book. A bit of this
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5.0 out of 5 stars very good look at those within Germany during the Nazi years ...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
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4.0 out of 5 stars Looks good solid stuff
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gellately is very good in pointing out a PR point
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