Publisher's Synopsis
This study is written with a number of objectives in mind. On the one hand, it addresses a range of historiographical issues concerning Nazism and the government of the Third Reich.;The inquiry is also more than just historiographical. The prime aim is to look beyond certain theoretical misconceptions which have misled some historians. Working through a criticism of existing research, this study adopts what is basically a Kantian research methodology to investigate both what Nazism was and why an individual became a Nazi. Consequently the empirical work is premised by an important theoretical component which is unusual by the standards of much historical research. Although the fundamentals of the methods are hardly new, I am unaware of it being applied for historical purposes before.
