The Teach Yourself History series offers an alternative to academic historical books, its content being extensive yet extremely accessible and the approach refreshingly different.

The books are informative and compelling, and engage the reader from beginning to end. They assume no prior historical knowledge, and are full of anecdotes and details that provide a very personal appeal.

Teach Yourself Nazi Germany is an accessible introduction to one of the most controversial periods in modern history. It looks at the wider picture surrounding it, from the creation of the German nation to Hitler's rise to power and his motives.

Before destroying himself and his nation in a bitter world war, the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, was adored by the mass of the German people. This book attempts to explain this paradox by involving the reader in the remarkable story of the Third Reich and in the controversies that still surround it.

The engaging narrative looks at many different aspects, including the economy and working conditions, the structure of the country (politics, society, culture), Hitler's instruments of terror, treatment of Jews, the role and treatment of women, concentration camps, and, of course, Germany in the Second World War.

 

This book is part of a book series called Tyh .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by John Murray Press .

Michael Lynch is currently a lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester. He has extensive teaching experience in secondary, tertiary, adult and higher education, and is an experienced speaker for A Level, B. A, B. Ed, and MA courses and conferences. He is also an A level chief examiner for London Examinations Board and AEB and contributes regularly to newspapers and political and historical discussion programmes on local radio.

This book has the following chapters: 01 - Germany Before 1933; 02 - Hitler's rise to Power; 03 - The Nazi Takeover; 04 - The Third Reich Expands; 05 - The Economy under the Nazis; 06 - The Nazi Leaders; 07 - The Structure of Nazi Germany; 08 - The Failure of Appeasement; 09 - Germany at War 1939-42 - 'Carrying all before us'; 10 - Germany at War, 1942-45 - the turn of the tide; 11 - The German Armed Forces; 12 - Hitler's Instruments of Terror; 13 - The Nazi Treatment of the Jews; 14 - Women in the Third Reich; 15 - Arbeit Macht Frei - The Concentration Camps; 16 - The Nazi Racial Programme; 17 - German Resistance to Hitler; 18 - Gotterdamerung - the final days; 19 - Trying to Understand Hitler; 20 - Trying to Understand the Third Reich