LEADER 04517cam a2200457 i 4500001 260744 005 20171208122332.0 008 171127t20172017nyuabf b 001 0deng 010 2016019506 035 (OCoLC)ocn944380372 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dVTL |dJAI |dCCE |dFM0 |dCZA |dIFK |dNYP |dYDX |dVP@ |dOBE |dLHM 020 9781451651133 |qhardcover 020 1451651139 |qhardcover 020 |z9781451651157 |qelectronic book 042 pcc 050 00 DD256.5 |b.C549 2017 049 LHMA 100 1 Childers, Thomas, |d1946- |eauthor. 245 14 The Third Reich : |ba history of Nazi Germany / |cThomas Childers. 250 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 264 1 New York , NY: |bSimon & Schuster, |c[2017] 264 4 |c©2017 300 651 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 cartographic image |bcri |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 "November 2017"--Title page verso. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-625) and index. 505 0 The Germany party system -- Glossary of German terms -- The serpent's egg -- Hitler and the chaos of postwar Germany -- On the fringe, 1925-28 -- Into the mainstream -- Making Germany great again -- The Nazis hit a wall -- The impossible happens -- Seizing power -- Consolidation of power -- The people's community -- A racial revolution -- Courting disaster -- Early success -- Hitler turns west -- The crusade against Judeo-Bolshevism -- Holocaust and total war -- Apocalypse. 520 "The dramatic story of the Third Reich--how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans. In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms of the Versailles Treaty that ended the Great War, he found his voice and drew a following. As his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. The failed Munich putsch of 1923 and subsequent trial gave Hitler a platform for his views, which he skillfully exploited. Between 1924 and 1929 Hitler and his party languished in obscurity on the radical fringes of German politics, but the onset of the Great Depression provided Hitler the issues he needed to move into the mainstream of German political life. He seized the opportunity to blame Germany's misery on the victorious allies, the Marxists, the Jews, and big business--and the political parties that represented them. By 1932 the Nazis had become the largest political party in Germany. Although Hitler became chancellor in 1933, his party had never achieved a majority in free elections. Within six months the Nazis transformed a dysfunctional democracy into a totalitarian state and began the inexorable march to World War II and the Holocaust. It is these fraught times that Childers brings to life: the Nazis' rise to power and their use and abuse of power once they achieved it. Based in part on German documents seldom used by previous historians, The Third Reich charts the dramatic, improbable rise of the Nazis; the suffering of ordinary Germans under Nazi rule; and the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of Nazi Germany since the classic Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "Based in part on documents seldom used by previous historians, this history of the Third Reich shows how the dramatic, improbable rise of the Nazis happened because of tragic miscalculations and blunders, then documents what life was like for ordinary Germans as the Nazis precipitated the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust"-- |cProvided by publisher. 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 651 0 Germany |xHistory |y1933-1945. 651 0 Germany |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945. 651 0 Germany |xSocial conditions |y1933-1945. 650 0 National socialism. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCauses. 648 7 1933-1945 |2fast 852 0 |bstacks |hDD256.5 |i.C549 2017