The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939

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Synopsis
From the front flap: THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF GERMANY'S MALIGN TRANSFORMATION UNDER HITLER'S TOTAL RULE AND THE IMPLACABLE MARCH TO WAR. BY THE MIDDLE OF 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If this could happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Only the most fervent Nazi party loyalists would have predicted how radical the transformation ahead would be. In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans tells the story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life, from literature, culture and the arts to religion, education and science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare Germany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way, but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run. Those who were seen as unworthy to be counted among the German people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. The Nazi regime took more and more radical measures against the racially "unfit," including Germany's Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals. After six years of foreign policy brinkmanship that took the Nazi regime from success to success, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war that he saw as its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939. The war he unleashed was to plunge the world into a maelstrom of genocide and destruction. The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was brought to the edge of that terrible abyss.
Copyright:
2005

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
868 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781594200748
Publisher:
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Richard J. Evans
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Brian Miller
Proofread By:
RochC
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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