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Kristin Semmens is Associate Professor of History at University of Victoria, Canada. She is the author of Seeing Hitler’s Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich (2005).
Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany puts aside the categorization of Germans under the Third Reich as perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Instead Kristin Semmens divides Germans into five categories: Nazis, accomplices, supporters, racial and social outsiders, and resisters. By grasping the complexity of German lives under Hitler, she explores the intertwined realities of coercion and consent and the approbatory and repressive aspects of the Third Reich. Notwithstanding the durability of the Nazi regime until its last days, the stores of each group provide rich accounts of Germans as they grappled with Nazism's violence and expansionism. * Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, Department of History, University of Akron, USA * Wide-ranging, clearly written, well structured and conceptually innovative, Kristen Semmens' survey of life and death in Nazi Germany is a masterpiece of compression, comprehensive in its coverage and taking in the most recent research. I can think of no better introduction to the subject. * Sir Richard J Evans, Regius Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cambridge, UK *
