Volume 31, Number 9 · May 31, 1984

How Guilty Were the Germans?

By István Deák
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919–1933
by Thomas Childers

University of North Carolina Press, 367 pp., $32.00

The Germans
by Gordon A. Craig

Putnam's, New American Library, 350 pp., $8.95 (paper)

Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century
by V. R. Berghahn

Cambridge University Press, 314 pp., $9.95 (paper)

Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria, 1933–1945
by Ian Kershaw

Oxford University Press, 425 pp., $49.50

The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920–1945
by Johnpeter Horst Grill

University of North Carolina Press, 720 pp., $32.00

Hitler, Germans, and the 'Jewish Question'
by Sarah Gordon

Princeton University Press, 416 pp., $14.50 (paper)

The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919–1945
by Michael H. Kater

Harvard University Press, 415 pp., $25.00

The Rise of Hitler: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany, 1918–1933
by Simon Taylor

Universe Books, 131 pp., $9.95 (paper)

The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922–1945
by William Sheridan Allen

Franklin Watts, revised edition, 388 pp., $9.95 (paper)

Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929–1933
by Eve Rosenhaft

Cambridge University Press, 273 pp., $39.50

The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS
by Robert Lewis Koehl

University of Wisconsin Press, 437 pp., $27.50

Someday, perhaps, the popular and scholarly fascination with a few insane years out of Germany's history will fade away, but that day is not yet in sight. In American bookshops, illustrated books on Hitler, the Luftwaffe, U-boats, and SS Death's Head formations seem to out-number cookbooks. In university libraries, the quantity of monographs on National Socialist voters, German-Jewish relations, the ties of German industrialists with the Nazis, and Hitler himself surpasses the number of scholarly works on virtually any other historical subject.



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