Life and Times in Nazi Germany

by Lisa Pine (Editor)

Overview

Lisa Pine assembles an impressive array of influential scholars in Life and Times in Nazi Germany to explore the variety and complexity of life in Germany under Hitler's totalitarian regime. The book is a thematic collection of essays that examine the extent to which social and cultural life in Germany was permeated by Nazi aims and ambitions. Each essay deals with a different theme of daily German life in the Nazi era, with topics including food, fashion, health, sport, art, tourism and religion all covered in chapters based on original and expert scholarship.

Life and Times in Nazi Germany, which also includes 24 images and helpful end-of-chapter select bibliographies, provides a new lens through which to observe life in Nazi Germany – one that highlights the everyday experience of Germans under Hitler's rule. It illuminates aspects of life under Nazi control that are less well-known and examines the contradictions and paradoxes that characterised daily life in Nazi Germany in order to enhance and sophisticate our understanding of this period in the nation's history.

This is a crucial volume for all students of Nazi Germany and the history of Germany in the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474217958
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/25/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lisa Pine is Reader in History at London South Bank University, UK. She is the author of Education in Nazi Germany (2010), Hitler's 'National Community': Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2007) and Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (1997).
Lisa Pine is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. She is the author of Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (1997), Hitler's “National Community”: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2007, 2017), Education in Nazi Germany (2010) and Debating Genocide (2018). She is the editor of Life and Times in Nazi Germany (2016), The Family in Modern Germany (2020) and Dictatorship and Daily Life in Twentieth-Century Europe (2022).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
1. Introduction - Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK)
Part I - Food and Health
2. Tischkultur: Food Choices, Cooking and Housekeeping in Nazi Germany - Nancy Reagin (Pace University, USA)
3. Vice in the Third Reich: Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco - Jonathan Lewy (Hebrew University, Israel)
4. The State of Health - Geoffrey Cocks (Albion College, USA)
Part II - Lifestyle
5. Fashioning Women in the Third Reich - Irene Guenther (The Honors College, Houston, USA)
6. A Vacation from the Nazis? Examining Tourism under Hitler - Kristin Semmens (University of Victoria, Canada)
7. Playing with the Third Reich: Sports, Politics, and Free Time in Nazi Germany - David Imhoof (Susquehanna University, USA)
8. Art and the Volksgemeinschaft - Joan L. Clinefelter (University of Northern Colorado, USA)
Part III - Religion
9. Protestantism in Nazi Germany - Christopher J. Probst (Saint Louis University, USA)
10. Catholicism in Nazi Germany - Kevin Spicer (Stonehill College, USA)
11. Nazi Christmas: Conflict and Consensus - Joe Perry (Georgia State University, USA)
Further Reading
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This collection of ten essays, rich with research and observations, helps demonstrate that history from below does not have to ignore other approaches. Especially when it relates the everyday to political decision-making, it adds dimensions and not just texture ... It demonstrates the continuing vitality of everyday life history and would be particularly useful for college courses not only in that field but also twentieth-century German or European history, not to mention courses in Nazi Germany." - H-Net Reviews

"A well-organized and original set of essays ... this book opens a window for English-speakers onto the new perspectives being opened up by younger German scholars on issues of daily life in the Third Reich. The range of topics is wide but coherence is maintained by the focus on the paradoxes of daily life in a variety of different social, institutional and cultural milieus." --Richard Overy, University of Exeter, UK

"This excellent collection of essays succeeds in finding new sites of inquiry, and new approaches, into daily life in the Third Reich. Exploring the degree to which Nazi ideology, goals and policies infected everyday life and the thinking of ordinary Germans, this compelling volume convincingly makes the case that ordinary Germans' perceptions of the regime were more complex than previously assumed, with contradictions and paradoxes that require nuanced analysis presented here." --Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University, USA

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