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"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom and living his best possible life. He now believes he is the 'happiest man on earth'"--Publisher.

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.