Working towards the Fiihrer Essays in honour of Sir Ian Kershaw edited by Anthony McElligott and Tim Kirk Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Contents List of figures and tables page vi Notes on contributors vii Editors' introduction 1 1 Catastrophe and democracy: the legacy of the world wars in Germany Richard Bessel 15 2 Hitler-Goebbels-StraEer: a war of deputies, as seen^hrough the Goebbels diaries, 1926-27 ElkeFrohlich 41 3 Mobilising women for Hitler: the female Nazi voter Helen Book 68 4 'Working towards the Fuhrer': charismatic leadership and the image of Adolf Hitler in Nazi propaganda David Welch 93 5 'Viceroys of the Reich'? Gauleiters 1925-45 Jeremy Noakes 118 6 'Sentencing towards the Fuhrer'? The judiciary in the Third Reich Anthony McElligott 153 7 Nazi masters and accommodating Dutch bureaucrats: working towards the Fuhrer in the occupied Netherlands, 1940-45 Bob Moore 186 8 Working towards the Reich: the reception of German cultural politics in South-Eastern Europe Tim Kirk 205 9 Assessing the 'other Germany': the Political Warfare Executive on public opinion and resistance in Germany, 1943-45 Pauline Elkes 224 10 Beyond the nation state: the German resistance against Hitler, and the future of Europe Hans Mommsen 246 Personal reflections on Ian Kershaw John Breuilly 260 Ian Kershaw bibliography Nadine Rossol 265 Index 269 List of figures and tables Figures 3.1 Anti-Nazi poster issued by the SPD, December 1930 (Archiv der Sozialdemokratie, Freidrich Ebert Stiftung) page 75 3.2 DNVP poster to the National Assembly (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin) 79 3.3 Reich presidential election poster 1932 (Deutsches Histo^sches Museum, Berlin) 81 Tables 6.1 Judges and prosecutors by age cohort 156 6.2 Distribution of war-specific crime 164 6.3 Death sentences passed (% carried out), 1933-45 168.