Nazi Empire
Author(s): Shelley Baranowski
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Drawing on recent studies of the links between empire, colonialism and genocide, Nazi Empire examines German history from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the aspiration to imperialist expansion and the simultaneous fear of destruction by rivals. Acknowledging the important differences between the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, Shelley Baranowski nonetheless reveals a common thread: the drama of German imperialist ambitions that embraced ethnic homogeneity over diversity, imperial enlargement over stasis and 'living space' as the route to the biological survival of the German Volk.
- An interpretive survey of modern German history between 1871 and 1945 that highlights that history as a problem in the European-wide tension between empire and nation building
- An exploration of the roots of Nazi genocide in unfulfilled German aspirations to an empire and the fear of the elimination of Germans as a people
- Offers comparisons between German imperialism and colonialism and the imperialism and colonialism of other European (and American) nations
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