The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation by Allan Mithcell

The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation by Allan Mithcell contains both journal articles and excerpts from larger works. The title does a good job of summarizing the contents. We get a little bit of everything in this book. The standard topics are covered. This is the third edition. In the preface it says that selections were not chosen solely to provide a contrast with each other. All are supported by research. Strangely many of the sources do seem to act as mere opposites of one another. Particularly when dealing with Hitler several the selections use a psychological approach which is problematic. After all it's not as if he can be interviewed.

Interesting but I probably won't be reading it again soon. Decent if slightly dated section on further reading.


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