Oxford Readers Nazism

Abstract I should like to thank Joan Tumblety, Tony Kushner (whose work on old Eastleigh continues to be a source of inspiration), David Cesarani, Jo Reilly, Kendrick Oliver, Edgar Feuchtwanger, Rodney Livingstone, Alan Bance, Tim Reuter, and many other colleagues in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Southampton, not only for their various suggestions for this volume, but also for providing such a stimulating environment for thinking about the history and memory of European fascism; thanks are also due to Jeremy Noakes, both for his many suggestions and comments on this volume, and for his continued support and encouragement. George Miller, Fiona Kinnear, Lesley Wilson, and Jackie Pritchard provided excellent editorial support at OUP. To John Want, Judith Hayward, Sue Young, Beth Linklater, Bella Millet, and most ‘Germanist’ colleagues in the School of Modern Languages here at Southampton I owe gratitude for their help with some of the translation work. I also benefited greatly from the expertise and helpfulness oflibrarians at the Wiener Library in London, the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton, the German Historical Institute in London, the Ural State University of Ekaterinburg, the British Library, and Cambridge University Library, In Helen Cope I had a tireless and endlessly helpful research assistant for whose hard labours I am also grateful. Last, but by no means least, I should like very much to reaffirm my gratitude to all of my colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Southampton for their collegiality and good humour, and for the stimulus which their own scholarship provides. In an age in which most of what is valuable about British higher education is being vandalized, their support and the intellectual stimulus of their work are particularly important.