A Social History of the Third Reich. Richard Grunberger

The Nazis developed a social system unprecedented in history It was cosmetics no slimming as well as charting how you progressed to the elite Nazi cadres - administrators propagandists or coercers It shows childhood with the Hitler Youth and describes the intense medieval ritual injected into every phase of life from school and university to farm labour It shows life in the office in industry in the professions - doctors lawyers artists - and in the Nazi Party itself Finally it documents what happened at the two extremes of German society - to the aristocrats and to the Jews