Hitler's First Hundred Days
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
Published on 12. August 2021
432 pages
978-0-19-264450-3 (ISBN)
Description
The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.
Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship.
In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of the period - the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts - to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert
over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised.
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Peter Fritzsche is the W. D. & Sarah E. Trowbridge professor of history at the University of Illinois and the author of ten previous books, including An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler (2016) and the award-winning Life and Death in the Third Reich (2009).
Content
- Cover
- Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION Quarter Past Eleven, One Hundred Days, a Thousand Years
- CHAPTER ONE "Crisis, if You Please"
- CHAPTER TWO Mystery Tour
- CHAPTER THREE Assault
- CHAPTER FOUR The "Communist Beast"
- CHAPTER FIVE The German Spring
- CHAPTER SIX "Your Jewish Grandmother"
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Administration of Life
- CHAPTER EIGHT "This Enormous Planet"
- CHAPTER NINE The One Hundred Days
- A Postscript and Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Introduction: Quarter Past Eleven, One Hundred Days, a Thousand Years
- Chapter One: "Crisis, if You Please"
- Chapter Two: Mystery Tour
- Chapter Three: Assault
- Chapter Four: The "Communist Beast"
- Chapter Five: The German Spring
- Chapter Six: "Your Jewish Grandmother"
- Chapter Seven: The Administration of Life
- Chapter Eight: "This Enormous Planet"
- Chapter Nine: The One Hundred Days
- Index
