TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fritzsche,Peter
TI  - Hitler's first hundred days: when Germans embraced the Third Reich 
T2  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-409) and index
SN  - 9780198871125
U1  - 943.086 23
KW  - Hitler, Adolf,
KW  - Germany
KW  - Reichstag
KW  - Elections, 1933
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Elections
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1933-1945
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -