The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

The Coming of the Third Reich

How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

2003 • 862 pages

Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: the First World War, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside almost everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take command.

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The History of the Third Reich is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Richard J. Evans and Sean Pratt.

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The Coming of the Third Reich
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The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939
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The Third Reich at war

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