Pamela E. Swett is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University, Canada. She is the author of Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Weimar Berlin, 1929-1933 (2004) and Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany (2014). She is also the co-editor, along with S. Jonathan Wiesen and Jonathan Zatlin, of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007), as well as Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany (2011), alongside Corey Ross, and Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (2022), with Moritz Föllmer. S. Jonathan Wiesen is Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He is the author of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (2001), which won the Hagley Prize in Business History, and Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich (2011). He is also the co-editor, along with Pamela Swett and Jonathan Zatlin, of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007). Wiesen and Swett also co-edited the Nazi era chapters of the German Historical Institute’s Historical Documents and Images online portal, for which they added hundreds of new documents, maps, tables, sound clips, still images, and moving images.
This is an outstanding account, brimming with insight, by two of the most distinguished scholars of Nazi Germany working in the English language today. * Neil Gregor, Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UK * With Nazi Germany Pamela Swett and Jonathan Wiesen have done a great service to everyone who teaches courses on this difficult subject. Their book incorporates all of the latest findings in the rapidly developing research, and does things that no other textbook does – including its extensive exploration of sex and gender in the Third Reich, and its treatment of Nazi Germany and the world. What Swett and Wiesen write is always sensitive, nuanced, and balanced. They explain this complex history with admirable clarity in a way that is perfectly pitched for an undergraduate classroom. I think Nazi Germany is destined to become the standard textbook in its field. * Benjamin Hett, Professor of History, Hunter College and Graduate Center, USA *