Authors Marie Moutier-Bitan and Nicolas Guiller have an uncontested reputation for quality. In this exceptional work, they explore the essentials of the history of Nazism beginning with its actions during World War II, as well as the less well-known aspects about this incredibly violent system, adopting a variety of approaches: the leadership of German society, Hitler’s networks and personality, economic disaster, setting up a dictatorship, societal purification, and the construction of the concentration camp system, not to mention denazification.