Summary
Mark Mazowe: Hitler's Empire
One of the most important scholars of twentieth-century history, Mark Mazower in his indispensable work Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained and lost their European dominance and offers a terrifying vision of what the world would have become if they had won the war.
Mark Mazower in his study shows remarkably that almost nothing about the occupation was foreseen planned and how the Nazis improvised while their armies conquered Europe, and generals and bureaucrats fought each other for supremacy and booty. Mazower makes it clear that Hitler and the Nazis based their ideas on British imperialism and nineteenth-century national ideas. He exposes all aspects of Hitler's rule in Europe, both Western and Eastern, and how various countries gladly accepted German rule, but he never diminishes the effect of Nazi anti-Semitism and concludes, contrary to the prevailing opinion, that the core of the Nazi worldview was not anti-Semitism, but the idea of uniting all Germans into one German state. Mark Mazower in Hitler's Empire forces us to reject established opinions about the German occupation of Europe and gives a new picture of the rise and eventual fall of the Third Reich.
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