Episode 205 - Normality Under Nazism, Part I

Peace In Their Time

The aggression and militarization of society in Nazi Germany may have been most openly expressed in its rearmament and bellicose foreign policy, but a critical element too was in how that state engaged with its own people. Getting everyone onboard with a general war was no small task for a state in its infancy, and this week I start taking a look at how Nazism engaged with people on the street.

Bibliography for this episode:

1. Gellately, Robert Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis Oxford University Press 2020
2. Tooze, Adam Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy Penguin Books 2006
3. Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power Penguin Press 2005
4. Emondson, C. Earl The Heimwehr and Austrian Politics, 1918-1936 The University of Georgia Press 1978
5. Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis W.W. Norton and Company 2000
6. Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris W.W. Norton and Company 1998

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