A new assessment of the history of the Third Reich~By a team of leading historians under the expert guidance of Robert Gellately~Traces the rise of the Nazi Party under the Weimar Republic, to the final fall of the Third Reich in 1945~Covers elections, the economy, the Holocaust, architecture, photography and cinema, war and empire, and collapse~Highly illustrated, a sensitive and thought-provoking documentation of one of the most terrible and discussed periods of world history