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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europeby: Mark Mazower  List Price: $39.95 Amazon.com's Price: $25.16 You Save: $14.79 (37%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 940.531 EAN: 9781594201882 ISBN: 1594201889 Label: Penguin Press HC, The Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: September 18, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Studio: Penguin Press HC, The Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war. Germany’s forces achieved, in just a few years, the astounding domination of a landmass and population larger than that of the United States. Control of this vast territory was meant to provide the basis for Germany’s rise to unquestioned world power. Eastern Europe was to be the Reich’s Wild West, transformed by massacre and colonial settlement. Western Europe was to provide the economic resources that would knit an authoritarian and racially cleansed continent together. But the brutality and short-sightedness of Nazi politics lost what German arms had won and brought their equally rapid downfall. Time and again, the speed of the Germans’ victories caught them unprepared for the economic or psychological intricacies of running such a far-flung dominion. Politically impoverished, they had no idea how to rule the millions of people they suddenly controlled, except by bludgeon. Mazower forces us to set aside the timeworn notion that the Nazis’ worldview was their own invention. Their desire for land and their racist attitudes toward Slavs and other nationalities emerged from ideas that had driven their Prussian forebears into Poland and beyond. They also drew inspiration on imperial expansion from the Americans and especially the British, whose empire they idolized. Their signal innovation was to exploit Europe’s peoples and resources much as the British or French had done in India and Africa. Crushed and disheartened, many of the peoples they conquered collaborated with them to a degree that we have largely forgotten. Ultimately, the Third Reich would be beaten as much by its own hand as by the enemy. Throughout this book are fascinating, chilling glimpses of the world that might have been. Russians, Poles, and other ethnic groups would have been slaughtered or enslaved. Germans would have been settled upon now empty lands as far east as the Black Sea—the new “Greater Germany.” Europe’s treasuries would have been sacked, its great cities impoverished and recast as dormitories for forced laborers when they were not deliberately demolished. As dire as all this sounds, it was merely the planned extension of what actually happened in Europe under Nazi rule as recounted in this authoritative, absorbing book. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Darkest of the 20th CenturyFollowing "Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century" that is what I call a History Book by a Historian who cares. Mark does it again this is not just another WW2 History book. As we get further from WW2 the Interest seems to grow. Present day youth are still interested in Communism and Nazism long after they are both gone. Communism is mistaken with Socialism. Nazism confused with Nationalism. Marks book is not just another Picture book that can be miss-used by the reader. Read More Rating:  - Who Was to Blame?In the years since Nazi Germany fell in 1945, and especially in the last few decades, the history and society of the Third Reich have been explored, analyzed and gone over with a fine-tooth comb until it is hard to find a new way to approach them. Mazower has chosen to do so by looking at the Nazis as a colonial enterprise and comparing the policies they implemented in conquered neighbors to those implemented by those same neighbors in their African and Asian possessions. As several reviewers have ... Read More Rating: - A nasty social virus born in Europe's wombEven more horrifying than the conventional wisdom which holds that Nazism's bitter fruit was owing almost exclusively to that of an ingenious megalomaniac, Mazower points to a more deep-seated cause for the ideological epidemic that found a ready host in all sectors of the Europe during the first half of the twentieth. From the Urals stretching to the Atlantic and from Mediterranean all the way up to the Baltic Sea---the intellectual dilatants, from the political left as well as the right, were enthralled ... Read More Rating: - a thorough review of an evil reignMemories of the Nazi horror fade and many remember nothing of Hitler's ghstly regime. If thwe allies had not thoroughly trounce Nazi Germany, what would the world look like today. One shudders to think. Thyis book refreshes our memories on just what the Third Reich stood for and did. Unrelentling tyranny and inflicted death rivaled only by Hitler's earlier ally Soviet Russia which played a huge role in scuttling Hitler's empire irreversibly. A great but sobering read. Rating: - An Excellent Analysis of the Weakness of Nazi RuleThis is a relatively new area of study of the Nazi era. We all know the stories about the 'final solution', and the brutalization of those people in the 'occupied countries'. But little has been said about how the average person in these occupied countries was treated. Needless to say that the SS and Police (under Henrich Himmler) felt it was most useful to 'work the Slav to death' and then replace them with 'German settlements', the view as to how to treat those in Western Europe was totally different. ... Read More 
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