Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

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'Working towards the "Führer' : reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship -- Ideologue and propagandist : Hitler in light of his speeches, writings, and orders, 1925-1928. Improvised genocide? : the emergence of the 'final solution' in the 'Warthegau'. Hitler's role in the 'final solution'. The 'everyday' and the 'exceptional' : the shaping of popular opinion, 1933-1939. German popular opinion during the 'final solution' : information, comprehension, reactions -- Reactions to the persecution of the Jews -- Popular opinion and the extermination of the Jews -- German popular opinion and the 'Jewish question', 1939-1943 : some further reflections -- Hitler and the Holocaust -- 'Normality' and genocide : the problem of 'historicization'. Shifting perspectives : historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification -- Hitler and the uniqueness of Nazism -- War and political violence in twentieth-century Europe.;This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.