The Third Reich in Power

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Penguin, Sep 26, 2006 - History - 960 pages
The acclaimed and comprehensive account of Germany's transformation under Hitler's total rule and the inexorable march to war, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich at War.

“[Evans's] three-volume history . . . is shaping up to be a masterpiece. Fluidly narrated, tightly organized and comprehensive.” —The New York Times

"Mr. Evans's magisterial study should be on our shelves for a long time to come."The Economist

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. In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans chronicles the incredible story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. As those who were deemed unworthy to be counted among the German people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war that he saw as its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939. This is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was brought to the edge of that terrible abyss.
 

Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES
REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
INSTRUMENTS OF TERROR
ENLIGHTENING THE PEOPLE
WRITING FOR GERMANY
PROBLEMS OF PERSPECTIVE
BLOOD AND SOIL
THE FATE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES
THE TAMING OF THE PROLETARIAT
SOCIAL PROMISE AND SOCIAL REALITY
IN THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE
THE NUREMBERG LAWS
THE JEWS MUST GET OUT OF EUROPE
THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS

FROM DISCORD TO HARMONY
MATTERS OF FAITH
CATHOLICS AND PAGANS
WINNING OVER THE YOUNG
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE INTELLECT
THE BATTLE FOR WORK
BUSINESS POLITICS AND
ARYANIZING THE ECONOMY
DIVISION OF THE SPOILS
FROM WEAKNESS TO STRENGTH
CREATING GREATER GERMANY
THE RAPE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
MARCH INTO THE EAST
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Richard J. Evans was born in London and educated at Oxford University. He has taught at Columbia University and Birkbeck, University of London, and since 2014 has been the Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge. His many publications include an acclaimed three-volume history of the Third Reich and a recent collection of essays, The Third Reich in History and Memory. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he is a past winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and was twice a History Honoree at the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. In 2012 he was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s birthday honors list, for services to scholarship.

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