Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths

Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths offers a succinct, compelling overview of the history of the Third Reich. Drawing on the most recent research in the field, Epstein provides a broad ranging and up–to–date historical synthesis of Hitler’s Germany and historiographical debates concerning the Nazi regime. The book is structured around myths and stereotypes that dominate popular understanding of this era of German history. By analysing and debunking those views, the author provides an argument–driven approach to the study of the Third Reich, encouraging critical engagement with the period.

Catherine Epstein is Professor of History at Amherst College.  She is the prize–winning author of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (2010).  Her previous publications also include A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German–Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993) and The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and their Century (2003).