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Inside and Outside Nazi Germany New Books by Gerhard L. Weinberg and Helmut Heiber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Michael H. Kater
Michael H. Kater
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York University Toronto
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Central European History , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 219 - 228
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1994

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1. See Weinberg, Gerhard L., The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933–1936 (Chicago, 1970);Google Scholaridem, The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II, 1937–1939 (Chicago, 1980).Google Scholar

2. See only Gruchmann, Lothar, Der Zweite Weltkrieg: Kriegführung und Politik (Munich, 1967).Google Scholar

3. Weinberg, A World at Arms, 38, 45, 89, 171. The conventional view of small, restricted war is still upheld by historians such as Overy, Richard J., in his coterminously published study War and Economy in the Third Reich (Oxford, 1994), 25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4. Weinberg, A World at Arms, 50.

5. Ibid., e.g. 127, 444, 615.

6. Ibid., 70, 86–87, 170 205, 250. Also see idem, “Hitler's Image of the United States,” American Historical Review 69 (1965): 1006–21;Google Scholaridem, “Germany's Declaration of War on the United States: A New Look”, in Germany and America: Essays on Problems of International Relations and Immigration, ed. Trefousse, Hans L. (New York, 1980), 54–70;Google Scholaridem, “From Confrontation to Cooperation: Germany and the United States, 1933–1949,” in America and the Germans: An Assessment of a Three-Hundred-Year History, vol. 2, ed. Trommler, Frank and McVeigh, Joseph (Philadelphia, 1985), 45–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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8. Weinberg, A World at Arms, 609.

9. Ibid., 75, 103, 210.

10. Ibid., 72–73, 119, 395–96.

11. Ibid., 120, 219.

12. Ibid., 45–46.

13. Feldman, Gerald D., “But How Were Germans Victims of Nazi Aggression?” Los Angeles Times, 12 06 1994.Google Scholar

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19. Under my supervision, William Wiley, a doctoral student at York University, is presently writing a thesis on hitherto unknown war crimes committed by members of the Wehrmacht.

20. Weinberg, World at Arms, 431. But see Stephenson, Jill, “Triangle: Foreign Workers, Nazi Civilians, and the Nazi Regime: War and Society in Württemberg, 1939–45,” German Studies Review 15 (1992): 339–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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32. Ibid., 619.

33. What could well be the longest (166 words) and most convoluted sentence in the book is ibid., 156.

34. Ibid., 438, 598, 73 (vita of Rudolf Weigel).

35. See his remarks about proverbial Austrian engineers (ibid., 102), Königsberg as home of bears and wolves (ibid., 314), Gauleiter speaking as quasi-professor (Ibid., 417).

36. As in n. 30; Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin, “Neue Möglichkeiten des Intrigenspiels: Helmut Heibers Buch über die Professoren im Dritten Reich,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 November 1991; idem, “Ein Wust von Histörchen: Universität unterm Hakenkreuz,” Teil 2, ibid., (26 November 1992); Iggers, George G., “The German Professors in the Third Reich,” Central European History 25 (1992): 445–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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42. Ibid., 167.

43. Ibid., 215–32.

44. Ibid., 554.

45. Ibid., 123, 154, 238, 491, 643, 735.

46. Examples ibid., 20, 26, 69, 344.

47. Among others, the following titles remain unmentioned, some of them predating 1991: Becker, Heinrich et al. , eds., Die Universität Göttingen unter dem Nationalsozialismus (Munich, 1987);Google ScholarWalker, Mark, German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–1949 (Cambridge, 1989);CrossRefGoogle ScholarMacrakis, Kristie, Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (New York, 1993).Google Scholar

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