Overview
The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the centre of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. The second volume of the history of the Reichsbahn offers an account of the national railway under Hitler's regime. Miersejewski uses sources that include Nazi Party membership records and Reichsbahn internal memoranda to explore the railway's operations, finance and political and social roles from 1933 to 1945. He examines the Reichsbahn's role in German rearmament, its own lack of preparations for war, and its participation in Germany's military operation. He shows that despite successfully resisting Nazi efforts to politicize its internal functions, the Reichsbahn cooperated with the government's anti-Semitic policies. Indeed, the railway played a crucial role in the Holocaust by supporting the construction and operation of the Nazi death camps and by transporting Jews and other victims to them.
Full Product Details
Author: Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.599kg
ISBN: 9780807825747
ISBN 10: 0807825743
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 30 December 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Inactive
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
Essential. Historische Zeitschrift An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History Essential reading for all scholars of modern Germany. Central European History Mierzejewski's book will be the standard work on the German National Railway for years to come. Holocaust and Genocide Studies Mierzejewski has done a wonderful job. Business History In the confines of this review it is not possible to discuss critically every new argument raised in Mierzejewski's essential work. Researchers cannot ignore the arguments of either volume. For the public the hope for a carefully edited German edition is as important as it is urgent. ( Historische Zeitschrift)
An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing.<p> Central European History
Essential. Historische Zeitschrift An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History Mierzejewski's book will be the standard work on the German National Railway for years to come. Holocaust and Genocide Studies Essential reading for all scholars of modern Germany. Central European History An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History Mierzejewski has done a wonderful job. Business History In the confines of this review it is not possible to discuss critically every new argument raised in Mierzejewski's essential work. Researchers cannot ignore the arguments of either volume. For the public the hope for a carefully edited German edition is as important as it is urgent. ( Historische Zeitschrift)
Essential. Historische Zeitschrift An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History Essential reading for all scholars of modern Germany. Central European History Mierzejewski has done a wonderful job. Business History Mierzejewski's book will be the standard work on the German National Railway for years to come. Holocaust and Genocide Studies In the confines of this review it is not possible to discuss critically every new argument raised in Mierzejewski's essential work. Researchers cannot ignore the arguments of either volume. For the public the hope for a carefully edited German edition is as important as it is urgent. ( Historische Zeitschrift)
Essential. Historische Zeitschrift An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History Mierzejewski has done a wonderful job. Business History Mierzejewski's book will be the standard work on the German National Railway for years to come. Holocaust and Genocide Studies An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing. Central European History Essential reading for all scholars of modern Germany. Central European History In the confines of this review it is not possible to discuss critically every new argument raised in Mierzejewski's essential work. Researchers cannot ignore the arguments of either volume. For the public the hope for a carefully edited German edition is as important as it is urgent. ( Historische Zeitschrift)
Author Information
Alfred C. Mierzejewski is professor of history at the University of North Texas. His books include The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway.
