Download or read book The Shaping of the Nazi State (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust) written by Peter D. Stachura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the scholarship of historians who have largely based their findings on previously unpublished material, this volume (originally published in 1978) provides a critical and provocative assessment of many established opinions on significant themes related to the dramatic rise and development of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Movement. The volume discusses among other things: The development of Hitler’s foreign policy ideas The contributions of Gottfried Feder and Gregor Strasser to the successful growth of the Nazi party The social composition of the Stormtroopers The bureaucratic structure of the Third Reich The character and scope of resistance within Germany to the regime