Coming of the Third Reich

Name: Coming of the Third Reich
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ISBN: 9781594200045

ISBN-10: 1594200041

ISBN-13: 9781594200045

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard A. Evans

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From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Maps and Diagrams


Preface



The Legacy of the Past


German Peculiarities


Gospels of Hate


The Spirit of 1914


Descent Into Chaos



The Failure of Democracy


The Weaknesses of Weimar


The Great Inflation


Culture Wars


The Fit and the Unfit



The Rise of Nazism


Bohemian Revolutionaries


The Beer-Hall Purtsch


Rebuilding the Movement


The Roots of Commitment



Towards the Seizure of Power


The Great Depression


The Crisis of Democracy


The Victory of Violence


Fateful Decisions



Creating the Third Reich


The Terror Begins


Fire in the Reichstag


Democracy Destroyed


Bringing Germany Into Line



Hitler's Cultural Revolution


Discordant Notes


The Purge of the Arts


'Against the Un-German Spirit'


A 'Revolution of Destruction'?


Notes


Bibliography


Index