The extent of the german peoples support of hitler and the nazis is one of the great questions to which historians address themselves. Yet for over fifty years historians have disputed what the german people knew about these camps and in what ways they were involved in the persecution of race enemies, slave workers, and social outsiders. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The author pays greater attention when writing of the war. Johnson on gellately, backing hitler the secret police apparatus to help settle personal disagreements or occasionally passed along tidbits of information to the police or the party because they believed it to be their civilian duty. Battling for communism in war and cold war by robert gellately and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Backing hitler quotes by robert gellately goodreads. Robert gellately has written or edited ten books, and his works have appeared in more than twenty foreign languages. Backing hitler robert gellately oxford university press. Moreover, he seeks to answer the problematic question of just how much the germans knew of the. The central thesis of robert gellatelys work lenin, stalin, and hitler. Aug 12, 2008 in lenin, stalin, and hitler, acclaimed historian robert gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the soviet union and nazi germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Enforcing racial policy 19331945 oxford university press, 1990, gellately echoes several important themes here heralded in his.
The dead are prominent characters in gellately s book, as lenin, stalin and hitler blithely consigned to banishment or horrible death ten thousand here, fifty thousand there, for page upon page upon page of this long book. Battling for communism in war and cold war ebook 9780307962355 by robert gellately. Gellatelys book is a must for all of us who have not read kogons ss state. A significant contribution to this new debate is robert gellately s new book, backing hitler. A fortiori, when one is reminded, as in gellatys book, that many overt brutalities took place, not in the heat of battle or in the distant eastern territories after 1941, but already in the heart of germany between 1933 and 1939 3, it becomes so difficult to defend the thesis. Had gellately studied a broader range of gestapo cases, especially those that involved. Consent and coercion in nazi germany, 19331945 oxford university press, 2001. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Consent and coercion in nazi germany by robert gellately is a interesting and thought provoking study of what the german people knew and when they know it. In this welldocumented and chilling volume, historian gellately offers a disturbing look at the true extent to which ordinary germans knew about the gestapo and the death camps. Battling for communism in war and cold war new york, alfred a. This book is an examination of the everyday operations of the gestapo, the nazi secret police. Consent and coercion in nazi germany robert gellately on. In truth, gellatelys work is what goldhagens book could have been, but wasnt.
May 16, 2002 backing hitler by robert gellately, 9780192802910, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Read the book on paper it is quite a powerful experience. Consent and coercion in nazi germany by robert gellately at indigo. Backing hitler convincingly debunks the myth that nazi atrocities were carried out in secret. Some of the same arguments have been made in adam lebor and roger boyess seduced by hitler. The gestapo only numbered 32,000 for the entire population of germany, and this clearly limited their impact. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Social outsiders in nazi germany princeton university press. Oxford, 1995 demonstrated conclusively that the much feared. A significant contribution to this new debate is robert gellatelys new book, backing hitler. Overlong history of europe between 1914 and 1945, the age of totalitarian empires and what gellately historyflorida state univ. Consent and coercion in nazi germany consent and coercion in nazi germany by robert gellately available from rakuten kobo.
Consent and coercion in nazi germany robert gellately. It looks at how the gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of noncompliance with nazi doctrines, especially crimes pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life. In backing hitler, robert gellately shows us what a true police state looks like. In backing hitler, gellately completely reevaluates the role that the german population played in the establishment and maintenance of the nazi dictatorship. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read backing hitler. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read stalins curse.
Consent and coercion in nazi germany gellately, robert on. It has thus far been translated into spanish and portuguese. The nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after hitler took power most germans turned away from democracy and. Washington post book world readers will notice that gellately offers a far more sophisticated argument and more abundant evidence than daniel goldhagens cause celebre, hitlers willing executioners.
Robert gellatelys most recent work, backing hitler, like his previous book the gestapo and german society 1990, emphasizes the active contributions of germans, who legitimated the nazi regimes network of repression. This book presents a mostly cogent analysis of the similarities, and many dissimilarities, between the totalitarian regimes of lenin, stalin and hitler. Hitler, gellately reveals, did not try to hide the existence of the gestapo or of concentration camps. Solzhenitsyn would approve, and so would the authors of the black book of communism, none of whom would find gellately s thesis. But this is one lesson the nazis teach us and, thanks to robert gellately s fine book, it is available for all to learn. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police gestapo and concentration camps. Familiar to historians of the third reich for his the gestapo and german society.
Buy backing hitler by robert gellately from waterstones today. Consent and coercion in nazi germany english edition 1. The nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after hitler took power most people turned away from democrac. The central thesis of robert gellately s work lenin, stalin, and hitler. Nathan stoltzfus, associate professor in the department of history at florida state university, is the author of. The soviets were content to give hitler the green light for an assault on poland because they saw ways of capitalizing on it. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police gestapo and. Consent and coercion in nazi germany has 2 available editions to buy at half price books. Gellately anticipated, and says in the book, inclusion of lenin with the other two will shock many. The capture of power by hitler and the nazi movement in 1933 was one of the great turningpoints in modern history. Yet for over fifty years historians have disputed what the german people knew about these camps and in what ways they were involved in the. Enforcing racial policy 19331945 oxford university press.
Consent and coercion in nazi germany oxford in asia historical reprints by robert gellately 20010524 01jan1815. Backing hitler was chosen as a main selection for book clubs in north america and the united kingdom. Battling for communism in war and cold war ebook written by robert gellately. Of that vast library, a handful of texts should be deemed essential reading for any serious student of the bloody and pathetic 20th century. Parts of this grim tale will have a familiar ring for readers of gellatelys earlier work, or of the vast literature that deals with nazi germanys police state and its concentration camp system, but backing hitler remains a highly knowledgeable and thorough account nonetheless. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Best of all, if after reading an e book, you buy a paper version of lenin, stalin, and hitler. Now, in this welldocumented and provocative volume, historian robert gellately argues that the majority of german citizens had quite a clear picture of the extent of nazi atrocities, and continued to support the reich to the bitter end. Gellately s book is the most important and original book on the history of the third reich published in a generation. Gellately does not believe in antisemitism as the mainspring of support for hitler and nazism, which is of course central to goldhagens thesis 6. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were. Gellately focuses on more than one thread in german thinking and feeling.
Gellately does a fine job delving through the historical achieves, especially old newspapers, to give the reader an insight into what information was available to the german public. Gellately does a fine job delving through the historical achieves, especially old newspapers, to give the reader an insight into what information was available to the german. The police state as it emerged in nazi germany starting in 1933 was very extreme, as is widely known. This article is an attempt to integrate the history of the nazi capture of power into. Backing hitler by robert gellately and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading backing hitler. Gellately strassler professor in holocaust history, clark univ. Robert gellately author of lenin, stalin, and hitler. Hitler, gellately reveals, did not try to hide the existence of the gestapo or of. Consent and coercion in nazi germany new ed by gellately, robert isbn. Gellately s book is a must for all of us who have not read kogons ss state. In 1990 robert gellately completed a major study which investigated the role of the secret police in nazi germany.
Robert gellately between 1914 and 1945 european society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the russian revolution, the holocaust and the rise and fall of the third reich. Robert gellatelys most recent work, backing hitler, like his previous book the gestapo and german society 1990, emphasizes the active contributions of. Backing hitler download pdfepub ebook gets free book. It is far superior in its analysis than, say, goldhagens willing executioners. Yet its significance is usually seen to rest less upon what occurred in 1933 than upon what happened later. Robert gellately holds the strassler family chair for the study of holocaust history in the center for holocaust studies at clark university. Debate still rages over how much ordinary germans knew about the concentration camps and the gestapos activities during hitlers reign. The nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the nazi regime. Consent and coercion in nazi germany robert gellately oxford, oxford university press. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. German forces invaded poland on september 1, and as expected, britain and france issued an ultimatum that two days later led them to declare war on germany. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Consent and coercion in nazi germany ebook written by robert gellately. The nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after hitler took power most germans turned away from democracy and backed the nazi regime.
Consent and coercion in nazi germany, 19331945, gellately argues that the gestapo were not in fact allpervasive and intrusive as they have been described. Debate still rages over how much ordinary germans knew about the concentration camps and the gestapos activities during hitler s reign. Backing hitler by robert gellately, 9780192802910, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In lenin, stalin, and hitler, acclaimed historian robert gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the soviet union and nazi germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature.
What he calls the great success in persecuting the jews, resulted in the main from the preexisting, demonological, racially based, eliminationist antisemitism of the german people, which hitler essentially unleashed. Another interesting angle that gellately explores is hitler s hatred of communism. Robert gellately s most recent work, backing hitler, like his previous book the gestapo and german society 1990, emphasizes the active contributions of germans, who legitimated the nazi regimes network of repression. Oct 30, 2015 does the electronic version of the book completely replace the paper version.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. But there is much to learn by examining the details and coming to understand the dynamics of its operation and development. The age of social catastrophe, is that the advent of lenin and the bolshevik party to power in russia in 1917 directly led to the nightmare societies of germany and the soviet union in the 1920s, 30s, and beyond. As early as the 1930s, articles on the systematic persecution of jews and the use of concentration camps appeared without restraint in the volkische beobachter, initially the nsdap party paper, but soon to become germanys leading newspaper. Review backing hitler by robert gellately hans renders. Books on the holocaust and nazism now number in the tens of thousands. Far from uniformly terrorizing its population with an allpowerful and arbitrary police, the third reich selectively targeted enemies for persecution and elimination. Gellately is an acute observer, so the book should reach a wide audience of interested readers. Internet archive contributor internet archive language english.
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