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Germanys forces achieved, in just a few years, the astounding domination of a landmass and population larger than that of the United States. Control of this vast territory was meant to provide the basis for Germanys rise to unquestioned world power. Eastern Europe was to be the Reichs Wild West, transformed by massacre and colonial settlement. Western Europe was to provide the economic resources that would knit an authoritarian and racially cleansed continent together. But the brutality and short-sightedness of Nazi politics lost what German arms had won and brought their equally rapid downfall.
Time and again, the speed of the Germans victories caught them unprepared for the economic or psychological intricacies of running such a far-flung dominion. Politically impoverished, they had no idea how to rule the millions of people they suddenly controlled, except by bludgeon.
Mazower forces us to set aside the timeworn notion that the Nazis worldview was their own invention. Their desire for land and their racist attitudes toward Slavs and other nationalities emerged from ideas that had driven their Prussian forebears into Poland and beyond. They also drew inspiration on imperial expansion from the Americans and especially the British, whose empire they idolized. Their signal innovation was to exploit Europes peoples and resources much as the British or French had done in India and Africa. Crushed and disheartened, many of the peoples they conquered collaborated with them to a degree that we have largely forgotten. Ultimately, the Third Reich would be beaten as much by its own hand as by the enemy.
Throughout this book are fascinating, chilling glimpses of the world that might have been. Russians, Poles, and other ethnic groups would have been slaughtered or enslaved. Germans would have been settled upon now empty lands as far east as the Black Seathe new Greater Germany. Europes treasuries would have been sacked, its great cities impoverished and recast as dormitories for forced laborers when they were not deliberately demolished. As dire as all this sounds, it was merely the planned extension of what actually happened in Europe under Nazi rule as recounted in this authoritative, absorbing book.
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PENGUIN BOOKS
HITLERS EMPIRE
Mark Mazower is the author of numerous books on twentieth-century European history, including Inside Hitlers Greece; Dark Continent; The Balkans; and Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 14301950. He is program director of the Center for International History at Columbia University, and he also writes about world affairs for the Financial Times, among other publications.
Praise for Mark Mazowers Hitlers Empire
In this important book, Mark Mazower provides the best available survey of the Nazi empires precipitous rise and violent demise.... [He] tells this somber story with great skill. He captures the diversity of Europeans experience without getting lost in detail; he maintains narrative momentum without losing sight of major themes. By describing a carefully selected set of individuals and events, he gives the experience of war a human face, bringing to life an extended cast of villains and victims. While his focus is on the Germans, he makes a number of illuminating comparisons with other regimes. In a stimulating and provocative final chapter, he explores the wars meaning for world history.... Mazowers eloquent and instructive book reminds us what the world would have been like if Hitlers enemies had been unwilling or unable to pay the price of defeating him.
James J. Sheehan, The New York Times Book Review
Compelling... All the way through, Mazower offers incisive details and insights that make Hitlers Empire a fascinating read.
Andrew Nagorski, The Washington Post
The importance and originality of [Mazowers] impressively authoritative book rests upon its portrait of Hitlers empire as a political and social entity, and his depiction of the fate of millions of non-Jewish victims.
New York Review of Books
Deeply researched.
Financial Times
Remarkable.
Istvn Dek, The New Republic
[Hitlers Empires] underlying thesis has important allohistorical implications, and it convincingly shows how the very ideological principles that led the Nazis to unleash World War II ultimately torpedoed their chances of winning it.... Mazowers compelling analysis of the contradictions underpinning the Nazis dream of Lebensraum impressively demonstrates that the Nazis were destined to lose World War II.
The New Leader
[This] astute, systematic study traces the roots of the Nazi obsession with a Greater Germany and its murderous, ultimately inept implementation across Europe. Mazower deconstructs the Nazi vision step by step.... [A] tireless, immensely valuable reassessment of the entire Nazi edifice and its breakdown.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Mazower offers new and profound perspectives on Hitlers rule, its roots and practices, its fleeting, unprecedented success, emphasizing the interplay between intent and improvisation. With stunning command of the historical record, he presents an unsparing view of all aspects of Europe in upheaval, persuasively correcting conventional simplicities. He sketches the many consequences of those short dramatic years on our world today. A masterpiece of the highest intelligence, full of humane insights into Europes darkest moments, rendered in elegant, memorable prose.
Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and author of Five Germanys I Have Known
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First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd. 2008
First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2008
Published in Penguin Books (UK) 2009
Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2009
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Mazower, Mark.
Hitlers empire : how the Nazis ruled Europe / Mark Mazower.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59420-188-2 (hc.)
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1. GermanyHistory19331945. 2. EuropeHistory19181945. 3. World War, 19391945Germany. I. Title.
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