| |
| |
| Publisher's acknowledgements | |
| |
| |
| Chronology | |
| |
| |
| Who's who | |
| |
| |
| Glossary of terms and organisations | |
| |
| |
| |
| Background ? | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Vulnerabilities of Weimar Democracy, 1918-1933 | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| The Impact of War | |
| |
| |
| The German Revolution of 1918 | |
| |
| |
| The Impact of Versailles | |
| |
| |
| The Culture of Violence | |
| |
| |
| The Constitution and the Emergency Powers of the President | |
| |
| |
| The Political Parties | |
| |
| |
| The Anti-Democratic Forces within the German State | |
| |
| |
| Economic Difficulties | |
| |
| |
| |
| Analysis | |
| |
| |
| |
| Adolf Hitler: Personality and Early Life | |
| |
| |
| Family Background | |
| |
| |
| Parents | |
| |
| |
| Childhood | |
| |
| |
| Youth | |
| |
| |
| The Death of his Mother | |
| |
| |
| The Vienna Period (1908-1913) | |
| |
| |
| Hider's Political Ideas in Vienna | |
| |
| |
| Hitler's Anti-Semitism in Vienna | |
| |
| |
| Munich (1913-1914) | |
| |
| |
| The First World War | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Early Growth of the Nazi Party, 1918-1924 | |
| |
| |
| The Birth of the Nazi Party | |
| |
| |
| The Early Programme of the Nazi Party | |
| |
| |
| The Emergence of Hitler as Leader of the Nazi Party | |
| |
| |
| The Growth of the 'Fuhrer Cult' | |
| |
| |
| The Munich Beer Hall Putsch | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Ideology of Hitler and the Nazi Party | |
| |
| |
| Links with Fascism and Totalitarianism | |
| |
| |
| The Historical Roots of Nazism | |
| |
| |
| The Philosophical Roots of National Socialism | |
| |
| |
| Hider's Central Role in Nazi Ideology | |
| |
| |
| The Importance of Foreign Policy | |
| |
| |
| The Centrality of Race | |
| |
| |
| The Function of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Marxism in Nazi Ideology | |
| |
| |
| The Folk Community | |
| |
| |
| The Function of Socialism in National Socialism | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Nazi Party: Organisation, Propaganda and Membership | |
| |
| |
| Organisation | |
| |
| |
| Propaganda | |
| |
| |
| Membership | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Nazi Breakthrough, 1925-1930 | |
| |
| |
| A New Direction | |
| |
| |
| Rebuilding the Nazi Party | |
| |
| |
| The Strange Mystery of Hitler and Geli Raubal | |
| |
| |
| The Emergence of a New Nazi Party Election Strategy | |
| |
| |
| The Impact of 'The Great Depression' | |
| |
| |
| The Emergence of Hitler on the National Stage | |
| |
| |
| The Nazi Electoral Breakthrough in 1930 | |
| |
| |
| Why Did the Nazi Party Appeal to Voters? | |
| |
| |
| The Psychological Attraction of Nazism to Voters | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler's Intriguing Road to Power, 1930-1933 | |
| |
| |
| The Bruning Experiment, 1930-1932 | |
| |
| |
| Hitler Courts Big Business and the Army | |
| |
| |
| Hitler Bids for the Presidency, 1932 | |
| |
| |
| Franz von Papen: A Nazi in a Pin-Striped Suit? | |
| |
| |
| The July 1932 Election and its Aftermath | |
| |
| |
| General von Schleicher's Fifty-Seven Days in Office | |
| |
| |
| Hitler Comes to Power, January 1933 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Assessment | |
| |
| |
| |
| Why Did Hitler Come to Power? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Documents | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler in Vienna | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler's First Appearance at a Meeting of the German Workers' Party | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Twenty-Five Points of the Nazi Party Programme | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Demands of the Nazi Party | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler on the Leadership Principle | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Munich Beer Hall Putsch | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler on the Key Lesson of the Munich Beer Hall Putsch | |
| |
| |
| |
| Joseph Goebbels' Views on National Socialism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler on the Power of the Spoken Word | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Nazi Party and Private Property | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler Debates the Meaning of 'Socialism' with Otto Strasser | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler Defines National Socialism | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Appeal of National Socialism: A Pacifist View | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Nazi Appeal to Farmers | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Schoolteacher Describes the Atmosphere at a Nazi Party Meeting | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler's Speech to the Dusseldorf Industry Club | |
| |
| |
| |
| Edgar Jung on the 'Conservative Revolution' | |
| |
| |
| |
| 'How Do We Struggle Against a Third Reich?': The Views of a German Novelist | |
| |
| |
| |
| Joseph Goebbels Instructs Party Workers to Tone Down 'Radical' Aspects of the Nazi Programme | |
| |
| |
| |
| Countdown to Hitler Coming to Power | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler's Views on Anti-Semitism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hitler Defines the Difference between the Nazi Party and the Traditional German Conservative Party | |
| |
| |
| |
| Meeting of Hider and Hindenburg, 13 August 1932 | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Appeal of National Socialism to Youth | |
| |
| |
| References | |
| |
| |
| Bibliographical Essay | |
| |
| |
| Index | |