The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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In "the new definitive volume on the subject" (Houston Press), 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 imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.
As his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. 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 gave them the opportunity to move into the mainstream. Hitler blamed 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, and within six months they 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' unlikely rise and how they consolidated their power once they achieved it. Based in part on German documents seldom used by previous historians, The Third Reich is a "powerful...reminder of what happens when power goes unchecked" (San Francisco Book Review). This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of Nazi Germany since the classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
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Thomas Childers. (2017). The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. Simon & Schuster.
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- "Riveting...An elegantly composed study, important and even timely" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich—how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power and plunged the world into World War II.
In "the new definitive volume on the subject" (Houston Press), 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 imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.
As his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. 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 gave them the opportunity to move into the mainstream. Hitler blamed 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, and within six months they 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' unlikely rise and how they consolidated their power once they achieved it. Based in part on German documents seldom used by previous historians, The Third Reich is a "powerful...reminder of what happens when power goes unchecked" (San Francisco Book Review). This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of Nazi Germany since the classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. - reviews
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World War II has been chronicled from every angle, but Childers, formerly the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, aims for a comprehensive one-volume history of Nazi Germany for lay readers.
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Starred review from August 15, 2017
A riveting study delves deeply into the conditions of the perfect storm that allowed Hitler and his Nazi party to seize and wield unprecedented power.The Nazis, first and foremost, were opportunists. In this compelling narrative, historian Childers (Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II, 2009, etc.) begins with Hitler's lackluster early life and sense of thwarted ambition, which took a sharp new direction after Germany's crushing defeat in World War I. From Vienna, where he was first inculcated in virulent anti-Semitic influences, to postwar Munich, a hotbed of left-wing revolutionary turmoil, Hitler seized the two pillars of what would become Nazi ideology: anti-Semitism and anti-Marxism. He assumed leadership of one of the many small paramilitary parties that had sprung up before 1920 and rebranded it the National Socialist German Workers Party, complete with swastika symbol and thuggish paramilitary army, led by loyalist Ernst Rohm; the group was envisioned more as an ideological movement than a political party. From this point, Childers meticulously lays out the conditions that fed the growth of this objectionable group: Hitler's talent for oratory, which won over rich donors; the conservative Catholic Bavarian base that was tolerant of "nationalist-Volkisch extremists of all kinds"; the shocking leniency meted out to him after the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923; the inspired choice of Joseph Goebbels to organize a Nazi propaganda machine, instigating the party rallies and Hitler cult that appealed to disenchanted voters and heavily influenced the breakthrough election of 1930; and, as the author emphasizes, the fatally misdirected backroom connivances by former chancellor Franz von Papen and others, which handed the chancellorship to Hitler in 1933. Once in power, the Nazis ensured with breathtaking rapidity that everything began to "fall in line," with one edict after the other consolidating power and strangling the rights of Jews especially--all facing little resistance by Germans citizens or the rest of the world. An elegantly composed study, important and even timely, given current trends in American and global politics.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Not since William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has a comprehensive single-volume history of the regime been released. Historian Childers (history emeritus, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Soldiers from the War Returning) does a magnificent job of balancing many details within an overarching narrative of the Nazis rise to power. Based partly on rarely seen primary documents, Childers's work focuses on the crucial decades of the 1920s and 1930s and touches on several themes. He asserts that Hitler's ascent as leader of the Third Reich was not inevitable and suffered several setbacks, any of which could have ended the Nazi movement. Hitler's anti-Semitism and racial philosophy were the abiding and constant principles of the party's policies. Although the Nazis were repeatedly defeated in the East, the annihilation of Jewish communities continued and even grew in momentum, ending only as Allied forces were within miles of the concentration camps. VERDICT Essential reading for World War II enthusiasts and those interested in the origins of the Nazi Party and the resulting Holocaust. [See Prepub Alert, 5/1/17.]--Chad E. Statler, Lakeland Comm. Coll., Kirtland, OH
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