David F. Crew Libros

Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII

A study of the welfare system in the Weimar Republic. Crew examines both high-level policy and ordinary Germans' daily experiences and encounters with the welfare state. One of the pillars of the Weimar social republic, the collapse of the welfare system is shown to have speeded the rise of the Nazi racial state after 1933.

Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents explains how an unknown, unemployed Austrian became the modern world's personification of evil. The Nazis were meticulous record keepers, and many of the documents that chronicle Hitler's dictatorship come from the Nazis themselves. For example, the Nazis' Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring lists the conditions that could require a person to be sterilized in order to purify the Aryan race. And an invoice for Zyklon B, the poison used in concentration camp gas chambers, was ultimately used as evidence at the postwar trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.

Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly and most thoroughly. This book focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left.