Historians and the problem of explaining Nazism; the essence of Nazism - form of fascism, brand of totalitarianism, or unique phenomenon?; politics and economics in the Nazi state; Hitler - "master in the third reich" or "weak dictator"?; Hitler and the holocaust; Nazi foreign policy - Hitler's "programme" or "expansion without object"?; the third reich - "social reaction" or "social revolution"?; "normality" and genocide - the problem of "historicization"; living with the Nazi past - the "Historikerstreit" and after.
