Memory and History, the second volume of historian Rod Stackelberg’s autobiography, picks up his personal and professional reminiscences where his first volume, Out of Hitler’s Shadow (2010), left off. After teaching high school in northern Vermont, Stackelberg belatedly resumed his graduate training in pursuit of a college teaching career. He resumes his graduate education at the Universities of Vermont and Massachusetts, Amherst, earning a PhD in modern European history in 1974—a full eighteen years after earning his BA at Harvard University. It was not a good time to enter the academic job market, as indeed he had been forewarned by his instructors as early as 1970. Several chapters of Memory and History deal with the trials and tribulations of job-hunting in the unfavorable academic employment climate of the 1970s. He ultimately attained his goal of pursuing a college teaching career, ultimately teaching at San Diego State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of South Dakota before joining the history department at Gonzaga University, retiring after more than a quarter-century at Gonzaga in 2004. This continuation of Stackelberg’s life story shares details of history and of academic life—both his own and of more general problems and conflicts in that sphere in the late twentieth century.

Roderick Stackelberg has an unusual story to tell, particularly of his early years. Stackelberg was born in Munich in 1935 to an American mother and a German father. He grew up in Germany during the Nazi years, including the Second World War, before returning to America with his mother in 1946. Out of Hitler's Shadow is based on personal journals Stackelberg began keeping as a boy of seven in Germany in 1942. It reconstructs his childhood in Germany, his years of school and college in New England, his return to Germany as a draftee in the American army in 1959, and his years of self-imposed exile in quest of knowledge about his background and his family's past. Out of Hitler's Shadow presents the first volume of Stackelberg's memoirs of a career devoted to the scholarly study of National Socialism, its antecedents, consequences, and lessons.

'This is an important new textbook on the Nazi period which is geared to intermediate and advanced undergraduates and will also interest general audiences ... this book is a real winner and deserves wide use.' - Bruce Campbell, German Studies Review

Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century German history. Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness. This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field.

It includes

• an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany
• an extended analysis of fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, and ideology
• a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism
• discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics
• new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture, the arts, education and religion
• additional maps, tables, and a chronology
• a fully updated bibliography

The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany combines a concise narrative overview with chronological, bibliographical and tabular information to cover all major aspects of Nazi Germany. This user-friendly guide provides a comprehensive survey of key topics such as the origins and consolidation of the Nazi regime, the Nazi dictatorship in action, Nazi foreign policy, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the opposition to the regime and the legacy of Nazism.

Features include:

• detailed chronologies
• a discussion of Nazi ideology
• succinct historiographical overview with more detailed information on more than sixty major historians of Nazism
• biographies of 150 leading figures of Nazi Germany
• a glossary of terms, concepts and acronyms
• maps and tables
• a concise thematic bibliography of works on the Third Reich.

Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century German history. Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness.

The book includes discussion on:

• the relationship of Nazism to conservatism, socialism, liberalism, fascism and communism
• the weakness of the Weimar democracy
• the causes and foundations of the emergence and triumph of Nazism
• the consolidation of Nazi power across a diverse society and in every day life in Hitler's Germany
• the sporadic revival of the radical right up to the present
• the afterlife of Nazism in German historical memory
• the Holocaust

The Nazi Germany Sourcebook is an exciting new collection of documents on the origins, rise, course and consequences of National Socialism, the Third Reich, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.

Packed full of both official and private papers from the perspectives of perpetrators and victims, these sources offer a revealing insight into why Nazism came into being, its extraordinary popularity in the 1930s, how it affected the lives of people, and what it means to us today.

This carefully edited series of 148 documents, drawn from 1850 to 2000, covers the pre-history and aftermath of Nazism

Including:

• the ideological roots of Nazism, and the First World War
• the Weimar Republic
• the consolidation of Nazi power
• Hitler's motives, aims and preparation for war
• the Second World War
• the Holocaust
• the Cold War and recent historical debates.

We have in this country seen at least two periods of, shall we say, "visionism" in German leaders—Kaiser Wilhelm II and the second one much worse…. Germans have an emormous capability for idealism and the perversion of it.

This study explores the insidious complex of traits that made volkisch ideology so seductive to generations of middle-class Germans. This ideology, it is sometimes forgotten, was an outgrowth, albeit deformed, of the same venerable tradition of idealism that inspired some of Germany's greatest artistic and literary works.