Evans, Richard J

Chronicles Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule during the 1930s and 1940s, describing how every aspect of life was impacted by Nazi rule and the regime's preparations for 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, Adolph Hitler.

Chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from the 1939 invasion of Poland through Adolph Hitler's suicide, and provides testimonies from a variety of people, which includes soldiers, Hitler Youth activists, middle-class housewives, and more.

In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological, social growth, and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's. How did Germany fall into the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it, and all of Europe, into utter moral, physical, and cultural, ruin? Evans' history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur.

By the middle of 1933 the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, led by Adolf Hitler. In six years Germany found itself radically reshaped and prepared for the war that began on September 1, 1939.