The Coming of the Third Reich 9780718196806, 0718196805, 9781101035184, 1101035188, 978-1-101-04058-4, 1101040580, 9781101042670, 1101042672, 9780143034698

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The Coming of the Third Reich
 9780718196806, 0718196805, 9781101035184, 1101035188, 978-1-101-04058-4, 1101040580, 9781101042670, 1101042672, 9780143034698

Table of contents :
Content: 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 Putsch --
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?

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