About this title: The highly detailed and meticulously researched second volume of Richard Evans's three-part history of the Third Reich describes how Hitler's war machine figured into his design for a totalitarian state. Evans documents the ways by which, after having been elected to power, the Nazis set out to totally eliminate their opposition, and to convince ...
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Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Penguin Press, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781594200748ISBN:1594200742
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2005-10-20
ISBN-13:9781594200748ISBN:1594200742
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2005-10-20
ISBN-13:9781594200748ISBN:1594200742
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"Second book of three. What the Nazis did after coming to power and how they immediately began planning to go to war are covered in total detail. It is often chilling to read how they instituted a reign of terror on the German people that was unrelenting."
"Let's see...Hitler's eliminated many rivals, both in and out of the party, and locked up lots of opposition. The camps are starting, but they're not up to the Jews yet. Right now, they're onto the "asocials"--if you haven't worked in a few months--during the economic depression, remember--you could be sent to the work camps at Dachau or Mauthausen, for example, to work the quarries for the stone to erect the new buildings of the fascist architecture for an indefinite period of time. That improves the Master Race early on, by keeping society's "losers" from reproducing. The Communists and the Social Democrats--the one who aren't "shot while attempting to escape" are filling up the work camps as well. It's a jolly old time in the Third Reich--but plenty of people are happy about all this; after all, Hitler makes them feel proud, and they've gotten rid of a lot of evil Commies and trade unionists. To be continued.
OK, I'm finally finished, almost a month after I started it. It gets slow, but I"m glad I stuck with it. What make Evans' book work so well for me are the quotes and diary excerpts he uses from "regular" Germans--Luise Solmitz is a piece of work. She's married to a Jew, and upset that the Reich's laws are making his and their daughter's lives so much harder, but she is still so proud of Hitler, a strong leader who will give the Germans back their rightful place in the world which was somehow stolen from them.
I'm going over the library in a bit to pick up the third volume in the set, "The Third Reich at War.""
"I'm giving it five stars just for the scope of the book. Also, it covers an area of scholarship that historians haven't explored. Evans writes about the Nazi impact on everyday German life. How it worked it's way through academic life, arts, business and social networks until it reached all the way into the private lives of Germans. Every step of the way it promised one thing and did another. It was a creeping, crawling insidiousness that caught people off guard. In the end the Germans diluded themselves into believing they were trading in security when they were really forfeiting their freedom. Overall, it was very readable. Evans does a good job of keeping things moving. It could have been edited some more but what would that have cut out, maybe 25 pages. Still it is not for the faint of heart. Yet it does have lessons for today."
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