How and why did so many non-German ethnic minorities and foreigners fight for the Nazis in World War II? This study answers these questions, among others, by reexamining the Third Reich from a dynamic new perspective.
Chapter 1. The “New” New History of the Third Reich
Chapter 2. Hitler’s Racial Ambivalence
Chapter 3. Victims or Collaborators?
Chapter 4. Diversity Under the Swastika
Chapter 5. The Shaping of the Ethnically Diverse Nazi Military Establishment
Chapter 6. Nazi POWs: Tuskegee Airmen Remember
Chapter 7. Afro-Germans, Africans, and Other Blacks in the German Armed Forces
Chapter 8. Allied Military Conduct and War Crimes
Key excerpts from Hitler’s speech at Platterhof 26 May 1944
Key excerpts from Franz Wimmer-Lamquet’s Balkenkreuz und Halbmond