Draw ing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research,
Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained,
and lost their European dominion?and offers a chilling vision of what
the world would have become had they won the war. Mark Mazower forces us
to set aside timeworn opinions of the Third Reich, and instead shows how
the party drew inspiration for its imperial expansion from America and
Great Britain. Yet the Nazis? lack of political sophistication left them
unequal to the task of ruling what their armies had conquered, despite a
shocking level of cooperation from the overwhelmed countries. A work as
authoritative as it is unique, Hitler's Empire is a surprising?and
controversial? new appraisal of the Third Reich's rise and ultimate
fall.