The definitive account of Germany's malign
transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march
to war.
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. If this
could happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Only
the most fervent Nazi party loyalists would have predicted how
radical the transformation ahead would be.
In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans tells the story of
Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life,
from literature, culture, and the arts to religion, education, and
science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare
Germany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to
penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering
many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way but gradually
winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run.
Those who were seen as unfit to be counted among the German
people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. The Nazi
regime took more and more radical measures against the racially
"unfit," including Germany's Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally
ill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals. After six years of foreign
policy brinkmanship that took the Nazi regime from success to
success, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war he saw as
its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939. The war he
unleashed was to plunge the world into a maelstrom of genocide and
destruction. The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and most
authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was
brought to the edge of that terrible abyss. --This text refers to
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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