Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century German history. Stackelberg analyses how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness. The book includes discussion on:
* the relationship of Nazism to conservatism, socialism, liberalism, fascism and communism
* the weakness of the Weimar democracy
* the causes and foundations of the emergence and triumph of Nazism
* the consolidation of Nazi power across a diverse society and in every day life in Hitler's Germany
* the sporadic revival of the radical right up to the present
* the afterlife of Nazism in German historical memory
* the Holocaust.