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Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
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This unsettling and illuminating history reveals how Germany's fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the formation of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler. Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out, from a deeply divided republic into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian Peter Fritzsche offers a probing account of the pivotal moments when the majority of Germans seemed, all at once, to join the Nazis to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche examines 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 the National Socialists exerted over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era they promised. Hitler's First Hundred Days is the chilling story of the beginning of the end, when one hundred days inaugurated a new thousand-year Reich.
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"Fritzsche turns their surprise, ambivalence, enthusiasm or horror into far greater account than most other historians."
"Fritzsche looks particularly closely at those who swung behind the party in early 1933 ..."
"Fritzsche successfully weaves in excerpts from letters and interviews, providing firsthand accounts of German people grappling with a new world order."
"A painful but expert historical account."
"Military historian Frank...taps a massive, multicontinent array of sources to deliver the definitive account of the first phase of WWII in the Pacific ..."
"But there's something particularly clarifying about the hundred-days framing, especially as it's presented in this elegant and sobering book, which shows how an unimaginable political transformation can happen astonishingly quickly."
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