Hitler's first hundred days : when Germans embraced the Third Reich / Peter Fritzsche.

By: Fritzsche, PeterMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-409) and indexEdition: [First U.K. edition.]ISBN: 9780198871125Other title: Hitler's first 100 days [Spine title] | When Germans embraced the Third ReichSubject(s): Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Influence | Germany. Reichstag -- Elections, 1933 | National socialism | Elections -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Nationalism -- Germany | Social classes -- Political activity -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945DDC classification: 943.086 Other classification:
Contents:
Quarter Past Eleven, One Hundred Days, a Thousand Years -- "Crisis, if You Please" -- Mystery Tour -- Assault -- The "Communist Beast" -- The German Spring -- "Your Jewish Grandmother" -- The Administration of Life -- "This Enormous Planet" -- The One Hundred Days.
Summary: "Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of the period--the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts--to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised"--
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Quarter Past Eleven, One Hundred Days, a Thousand Years -- "Crisis, if You Please" -- Mystery Tour -- Assault -- The "Communist Beast" -- The German Spring -- "Your Jewish Grandmother" -- The Administration of Life -- "This Enormous Planet" -- The One Hundred Days.

"Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of the period--the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts--to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised"--

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