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Germany: Weimar Republic, economic repercussions of WWI; Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazi totalitarianism: cult of the Führer (“leader”), Mein Kampf; Nazism and the ideology of fascism, in contrast to communism and democracy; Racial doctrines of the Nazis: anti-Semitism, the concept of Lebensraum (literally, “living space”) for the “master race,” Kristallnacht; The Third Reich before the War: Gestapo, mass propaganda, book burning