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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Third Reich
    sub title: a history of Nazi Germany
  name:
    name part: Childers, Thomas
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 651 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Thomas Childers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 1933-1945
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1933-1945
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1933-1945
  subject:
    topic: National socialism
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Causes
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / World War II
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / World War II
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
  classification: DD256.5 .C549 2017
  classification: 943.086
  identifier: 9781451651133
  identifier: 1451651139
  identifier: 2016019506
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160425
    record change date: 20180214135053.0
    record identifier: in00003907903