Life and Death in the Third Reich

Peter Fritzsche

  • Finalist for 2008 Cundill International Prize in History, sponsored by McGill University's Dean of Arts, with the help of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
  • Recognition of Excellence Award at the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History at McGill University
  • Preface
  • Introduction

1. Reviving the Nation

  • “Heil Hitler!”
  • How Far Did Germans Support the Nazis?
  • Volksgemeinschaft, or the People’s Community
  • Consuming the Nation
  • Unter Uns, or Nazism’s Audiovisual Space

2. Racial Grooming

  • Aryan Passports
  • Biology and the National Revolution
  • Seeing like an Aryan
  • The Camp
  • Unworthy Life
  • The Assault on German Jews

3. Empire of Destruction

  • Writing Letters
  • The Imperial Project
  • The Expansion of the German Empire
  • Final Solutions to the “Jewish Problem”
  • The Deportation of German Jews
  • The Holocaust

4. Intimate Knowledge

  • Train Station
  • Jewish Witnesses
  • German Witnesses
  • Perpetrators and Victims
  • Imagining the End of the War
  • Reading Catastrophe
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Cover: Life and Death in the Third Reich
  • A photo of the author

Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois.