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History Of Hitler's Empire

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Title:                  History Of Hitler's Empire (2nd Ed.)
Author:                 The Teaching Company
Read By:                Thomas Childers
Copyright:              2001
Audiobook Copyright:    2001
Genre:                  Lecture
Publisher:              The Teaching Company
Abridged:               No

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Media:                  DVD
Number:                 2
Source:                 Library
Condition:              Very Good

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Book Description
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History of Hitler’s Empire, 2nd Edition
(12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 805

Taught by Thomas Childers
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Harvard University
 

Know thy enemy. That’s what the wisdom of history teaches us.

And Adolph Hitler was surely the greatest enemy ever faced by modern
civilization. Over half a century later, the horror and fascination
still linger.

No one is better able to explain the unexplainable about this man and
his movement than professor Thomas Childers.

With these lectures, you will see what great teaching is all about.
As the Student Course Evaluations at the University of Pennsylvania
put it: "Words do not seem adequate to describe Professor Childers."

Two Crucial Questions

Professor Childers has designed this course to answer two burning questions
that have nagged mankind ever since Hitler and Nazism were destroyed.---

1) How could a man like Adolf Hitler and a movement like Nazism come
to power in, of all places, 20th-century Germany? After all, this was
a highly educated, industrially developed country at the very heart
of Western Europe.

2) How were the Nazis able to establish the foundations of a totalitarian
regime in such a short time and hurl all of Europe—and the world—into
a devastating war that would consume so many millions of lives?

And the answers lead us to other questions:

Who voted for the Nazis and why? How did the Nazis campaign? What did
they seem to stand for?
Why was there apparently so little resistance?
What made the regime popular at home?
How were the Nazis able to seize control of the press, the radio, the
courts, and police with so little trouble?
Can it happen again?
What must we do to make sure that it doesn’t?
How did it all begin?
You start by exploring the catastrophic impact of World War I on Germany
and how the war and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles crippled the
Weimar Republic.

The Repercussions of the Versailles Treaty in Germany

Until the very end of World War I, despite enormous casualties in trench
warfare and great sacrifices on the home front, Germany had appeared
to be winning.

Then, in November 1918, the roof suddenly caved in. Inexplicably to
many Germans, Germany had lost the war!

The new democratic government, the Weimar Republic, was forced by the
victorious Allies to sign a humiliating treaty and begin its political
life carrying a staggering burden. You learn:

how this widened divisions already present in German society
how it created the setting in which extreme nationalist movements could
thrive.
Then you examine short-term factors that help explain Hitler’s rise
to power:

the grave economic problems confronting the Weimar government upon which
Hitler and his minions fed: the chaotic hyperinflation of 1923, the
harsh stabilization of 1924, and the Great Depression
the deep cleavages—religious divisions, lingering regional loyalties,
and growing social or class tension—that made nation-building in the
new Germany so difficult
how the Nazis used innovative modern campaign techniques to exploit
the economic hardship of the day: here is the first use in politics
of exit polls, radio appeal, and use of aircraft by the candidate
just which German voters found the Nazis appealing, and why.
Hitler in Power: The Third Reich

The second half of the course deals with Nazism in power, the Third
Reich. These lectures answer the question of how President Hindenburg
came to name Hitler as chancellor in January 1933, at a time when Nazi
appeal was waning.

And they show how Hitler and his henchmen began systematically and ruthlessly
breaking resistance, taking over the major institutions of state power
and creating a totalitarian system of terror, propaganda, and pervasive
regimentation.

Hitler’s Wars: Why and How?

By 1935, with power now firmly in Nazi hands, the ideological core of
the National Socialist movement began to reveal itself.

Professor Childers anatomizes Hitler’s horrifying racial ideas and the
policies adopted to transform those ideas into reality. He describes
the Nazis’ mounting repression of the Jewish population and the role
of the SS in shaping and enforcing these anti-Semitic policies.

Hitler as Global Chess Player

Next comes Hitler’s conduct of foreign policy between 1933 and 1939.

You see how he outmaneuvered the apprehensive Western European powers
and how and why he puzzled the world by entering into an accommodation
with his deadly enemy, Stalin, on the eve of World War II.

You see why the Munich agreement was such an important turning point,
the seeming triumph of National Socialism on the world stage.

The "Final Solution"

In his closing lectures, Professor Childers focuses on Hitler’s war
against the Jews from Mein Kampf to Auschwitz.

Hitler’s war was not simply a traditional geopolitical conflict, a grab
for land and resources; it was a racial war as well. It is revealed
most obviously in the ideological war against the Soviet Union.

Hitler saw his enemy as a "Judeo-Bolshevist" conspiracy, which he was
called on to eliminate. This meant not only a war of annihilation of
the Soviet Union; it also meant the destruction of the European Jewish
community.

Professor Childers shows how Hitler conducted his war against the Jews
to the very end and how, finally after so much death and destruction,
his evil empire itself was destroyed by Allied might.



Course Lecture Titles
 The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century
The First World War and Its Legacy
The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party
The Twenties and the Great Depression
The Nazi Breakthrough
Hitler's Assumption of Power
Racial Policy and the Totalitarian State
Hitler's Foreign Policy
Munich and the Triumph of National Socialism
War in the West, War in the East
Holocaust—Hitler's War Against the Jews
The Final Solution

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