The Third Reich In Power,1933-1939 9780141009766

The definitive account of Germany's maligntransformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable marchto war.
　　By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic hadbeen transformed into the police state of the Third Reich,mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If thiscould happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Onlythe most fervent Nazi party loyalists would have predicted howradical the transformation ahead would be.
　　In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans tells the story ofGermany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life,from literature, culture, and the arts to religion, education, andscience, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepareGermany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted topenetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encounteringmany kinds and degrees of resistance along the way but graduallywinning the acceptance of the German people in the long run.
　　Those who were seen as unfit to be counted among the Germanpeople were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. The Naziregime took more and more radical measures against the racially"unfit," including Germany's Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentallyill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals. After six years of foreignpolicy brinkmanship that took the Nazi regime from success tosuccess, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war he saw asits destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939. The war heunleashed was to plunge the world into a maelstrom of genocide anddestruction. The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and mostauthoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany wasbrought to the edge of that terrible abyss. --This text refers toan out of print or unavailable edition of this title.