The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
Language: English
Pages: 672
ISBN: 0143034693
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.
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role of a solid German peasantry in ensuring the future of the Germanic race. Driven by this obsession with the peasantry, Himmler for a while himself took up farming, but he did not do well, since he spent too much time in political campaigning, and the times were in any case bad for agricultural business.164 On 6 January 1929 Hitler appointed the faithful Himmler as head of his personal Protection Formation - Schutzstaffel, quickly known by its initials as the SS. This had its origins in a
figure involved saw as the securing of binding guarantees from the new regime for the continued autonomy of the Catholic Church and the full participation of Catholics in the new German order. Just how binding these guarantees were, the Catholics would soon find out. Meanwhile, on 28 October 1933, Clemens August Count von Galen was consecrated Catholic Bishop of Münster, the first such elevation to take place after the signing of the Concordat. In his address to the congregation, Galen declared
1928-1932 (Bonn, 1975). 25 Details in Alfred Milatz, Wähler und Wahlen in der Weimarer Republik (Bonn, 1965) and Jürgen Falter et al., Wahlen und Abstimmungen in der Weimarer Republik: Materialen zum Wahlverhalten 1919-1933 (Munich, 1986). 26 Schulze, Weimar, endpapers. 27 Winkler, Von der Revolution; idem, Der Schein; idem, Der Weg in die Katastrophe: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik 1930 his 1933 (Bonn, 1987), is a comprehensive and exhaustive survey, sympathetic to the
Scapegoats or Winners of the Great Depression?’, in Evans and Geary (eds.), The German Unemployed, 108-41. Kraul, Margret, Das deutsche Gymnasium 1780-1980 (Frankfurt am Main, 1984). Krause, Thomas, Hamburg wird braun: Der Aufstieg der NSDAP 1921-1933 (Hamburg, 1987). Kreutzahler, Birgit, Das Bild des Verbrechers in Romanen der Weimarer Republik: Eine Untersuchung vor dem Hintergrund anderer gesellschaftlicher Verbrecherbilder und gesellschaftlicher Grundzüge der Weimarer Republik (Frankfurt
immeasurably, and most recently our 10,000-mark seat has already cost 200,000. Yesterday afternoon,’ he went on, ‘I wanted to buy a new stock. The middle rows of the stalls already cost 300,000 marks’, and these were the second cheapest seats in the house; a further price increase had already been announced for the following Thursday, three days later.76 By 9 October he was reporting: ‘Our visit to the cinema yesterday cost 104 million, including the money for the fare.’77 The situation brought
