The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945 (54 page)

' Both remarks are quoted in Karl Dietrich Bracher, Die deutsche Diktatur: Entstehung, Struktur, Folgen des Nationalsozialismus, 2nd edn. (Cologne, 1969), 213.

2 Joseph Goebbels, My Part in Germany's Fight, trans. K. Fiedler (1940; New York, 1979), 2079.

Quoted in R. J. Overy, Goering: The Iron Man (London, 1984). 22.

' Timothy W. Mason, 'Intention and Explanation: A Current Controversy about the Interpretation of National Socialism', in Gerhard Hirschfeld and Lothar Kettenacher (eds.), Der 'Fuhrerstaat': Mythos and Realitdt. Studien zur Struktur and Politik des Dritten Reiches (Stuttgart, 1981), 27. For introductions to the literature (apart from Bracher and works cited below in n. 50) and the controversies see Pierre Aycoberry, The Nazi Question: An Essay on the Interpretations of National Socialism (1922-1975), trans. R. Hurley (New York, 1981), 1o9ff.; Eike Hennig, Blirgerliche Gesellschaft and Faschismus in Deutschland: Ein Forschungsbericht, 2nd edn. (Frankfurt, 1982), 19ff; Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (London, 1985), 1 ff.; John Hiden and John Farquharson, Explaining Hitler's Germany: Historians and the Third Reich (Totowa, NJ, 1983), 83ff.; Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (Hanover and London, 1987), 31ff. The Historikerstreit also continues to produce a substantial number of important books and essays, with promises of still more to come. Among the latter will be a book by Richard J. Evans. The best place to begin is with Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, Mass., 1988).

Martin Broszat, Per Staat Hitlers: Grundlegung and Entwicklung seiner inneren Verfassung (Munich, 1971), 433-4. Cf. Michael H. Kater, 'Die ernsten Bibelforscher im Dritten Reich', VJZ 17 (1969), 18iff.; Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon, The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies (New York, 1972), 59ff.; Ernst Klee, 'Euthanasie' im NS-Staat: Die 'Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens' (Frankfurt, 1983), 15ff. See also Richard J. Evans, 'Introduction: The "Dangerous Classes" in Germany from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century', in Richard J. Evans (ed), The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History (London. 1988). 1-28, for an introduction to the literature; in the same volume see Wolfgang Ayass, 'Vagrants and Beggars in Hitler's Reich', 21off. Also instructive is Glitz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth, Die restlose Erfassung: Volkszdhlen, Identifizieren, Aussondern im Nationalsozialismus (Berlin, 1984), 13f. Much of the recent literature on the persecution of the Jews is discussed in Eberhard Jackel and Jurgen Rohwer (eds.), Der Mord an den Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart, 1985); Herbert A. Strauss and Norbert Kampe (eds.), Antisemitismus: Von der Judenfeindschaft zum Holocaust (Frankfurt, 1985). An East German perspective is provided in the work of Kurt Nowak, 'Euthanasie' and Sterilisierung im 'Dritten Reich' (Weimar 1980), and Kurt Patzold, Faschismus, Rassenwahn, Judenverfolgung: Eine Studie zur politischer Strategie and Taktik desfaschistischen deutschen Imperialism us( 193 3 -19 3 5 )(Berlin (East), 1975), 13ff-