{"product_id":"backing-hitler-consent-and-coercion-in-nazi-germany-9780192802910","title":"Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany","description":"Debate still rages over how much ordinary Germans knew about the concentration camps and the Gestapo's activities during Hitler's reign. Now, in this well-documented and provocative volume, historian Robert Gellately argues that the majority of German citizens had quite a clear picture of the\u003cbr\u003eextent of Nazi atrocities, and continued to support the Reich to the bitter end. \u003cbr\u003e Culling chilling evidence from primary news sources and citing dozens of case studies, Gellately shows how media reports and press stories were an essential dimension of Hitler's popular dictatorship. Indeed, a vast array of material on the concentration camps, the violent campaigns against\u003cbr\u003esocial outsiders, and the Nazis' radical approaches to \"law and order\" was published in the media of the day, and was widely read by a highly literate population of Germans. Hitler, Gellately reveals, did not try to hide the existence of the Gestapo or of concentration camps. Nor did the Nazis try\u003cbr\u003eto cow the people into submission. Instead they set out to win converts by building on popular images, cherished ideals, and long-held phobias. And their efforts succeeded, Gellately concludes, for the Gestapo's monstrous success was due, in large part, to ordinary German citizens who singled out\u003cbr\u003esuspected \"enemies\" in their midst, reporting their suspicions and allegations freely and in a spirit of cooperation and patriotism.\u003cbr\u003e Extensively documented, highly readable and illustrated with never-before-published photographs, \u003cem\u003eBacking Hitler\u003c\/em\u003e convincingly debunks the myth that Nazi atrocities were carried out in secret. From the rise of the Third Reich well into the final, desperate months of the war, the destruction of\u003cbr\u003einnocent lives was inextricably linked to the will of the German people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Gellately\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.40w x 1.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192802910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Gellately\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Strassler Professor in Holocaust History at Clark University, and is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP UK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40822394683507,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":55.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fee8235f-6166-494c-b1f9-8fe489fe905b.jpg?v=1683723004","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/backing-hitler-consent-and-coercion-in-nazi-germany-9780192802910","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}