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1) 1933
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Metcalfe distills the personalities, viewpoints, and day-to-day reactions of five alert and often directly involved witnesses to Hitler's consolidation of power. They are: U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, and his high-spirited daughter, Martha; Bella Fromm, a glamorous German society columnist who was Jewish and made no secret of it; Ernest Hanfstaengl, Hitler's somewhat buffoonish foreign-press chief;...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An acclaimed historian of twentieth century Germany provides a vivid account of Hitler's rise to power and its intimate connection to the Bavarian capital. The immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Versailles Treaty created a perfect storm of economic, social, political and cultural factors which facilitated the rapid rise of Adolf Hitler's political career and the birth of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. The breeding ground...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The provocative and harrowing account of how one woman's life was turned upside down after efforts to uncover her hometown's complicity in the Nazi regime turned a city against her Born in Passau in 1960, Anna Rosmus grew up like most of the small Bavarian city's middle-class residents. Nestled along the Danube in southern Germany, Passau is a pleasant tourist destination known for its historic buildings and scenic views at the intersection of three...
Author
Publisher
Echo Point Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tells us how Nazism happened, in microcosm, in a single German town that was neither typical nor exceptional in admitting and then yielding to tyranny." -- The New York Times In this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records and interviews with primary sources, Allen dissects...
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