Volume 33, Number 1 · January 30, 1986
The German Mystery Case
By Gordon A. Craig
The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
by David Blackbourn, by Geoff Eley
Oxford University Press, 300 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Reflexionen Finsterer Zeit: Zwei Vorträge
by Fritz Stern, by Hans Jonas
J.C.B. Mohr, 94 pp., DM28
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
by Jeffrey Herf
Cambridge University Press, 251 pp., $29.95
The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism
by Woodruff D. Smith
Oxford University Press, 352 pp., $35.95
The enormity of the crimes committed during the Third Reich has confronted historians with the problem of explaining how a nation as progressive and cultured as Germany could have brought forth and tolerated the regime that committed them. Earlier answers to this problem, which varied from arguments based upon explorations of the German mind to attributions of baleful influence to the Prussian military, have been superseded since the 1960s by sociological and structural ones.
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