Providing a wealth of factual and interpretative information about Germany between 1918 and 1945, Tim Kirk sets the Hitler years in their wider context, to include the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism, as well as the Third Reich itself. In addition to political chronologies and anatomies of the Nazi party and the police state, there is detailed information on economy, society and culture; diplomacy, rearmament and war; and racial politics and the Holocaust. Biographies, glossary and a rich annotated bibliography complete an invaluable guide to Nazi Germany.