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100 1 $aEvans, Richard J.
245 14 $aThe coming of the Third Reich /$cRichard J. Evans.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books,$c2005, c2003.
300 $axxxiv, 622 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [462]-584) and index.
520 $aThere is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and 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; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin? A 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 he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. The first book of what will be a three-volume history of Nazi Germany.--From publisher description.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory$y1871-1918.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory$y1918-1933.
650 0 $aNational socialism$xHistory.
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1871-1933.
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