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

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From now on it is not up to you to decide whether or not something is true, but whether it is in the interests of the National Socialist Revolution.” anti-bolshevism (enhanced by the events following the revolution in Russia and the start of the Soviet Union) and anti-communism (fuelled by several botched attempted revolutions in Germany) urn:lcp:isbn_9781594200045:epub:f129b266-60e6-4cc0-9d50-a96e5bdb941d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isbn_9781594200045 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t04x9c047 Invoice 1213 Isbn 1594200041 Lccn 2003063205 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition Pan-Germanism was a central theme of Nazi ideology, and this ideal was present throughout Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other areas with a German presence before the Nazi's conception. Anti-Semitism was also a central tenant, and this ideal was popular even amongst the more mainstream political parties in the Weimar Republic, as it was a popular sentiment among many average German's suffering under economic hardship during the turbulent 1920's and 30's. With the political parties suppressed and all chances of any discordant voices eliminated, the Nazis finally let loose their racial campaigns and massacres and systematic eradication of Jews, Socialists and Communists from all social, political and economic positions in the entire country.

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

This title tells 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. Evans recreates a Germany torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows liberal democracy had been imposed on Germany by the victorious allies. None of the political parties active in Germany during the era felt any moral commitment to it. Thus in a crisis, nobody supported it.

Finally, Evans spends a long time, too long to really interest me, on “Hitler’s Cultural Revolution.” The Nazis focused both on Jews in high culture and, theoretically separately, on generally degenerate culture (in fairness, Weimar produced an awful lot of the latter). For example, using a technique we sometimes see used to suppress speech today, the conductor Otto Klemperer (the cousin of the diarist) had his performances cancelled “on the usual specious grounds that public safety could not be guaranteed if he appeared on the rostrum.” This cultural suppression was hit or miss in the early days, but increased in severity and harm to people, and of course resulted in substantial emigration. Evans notes that the Nazis did not propagandize about the past; they, like Mussolini, the Italian Futurists, and the American Progressives, were focused on the future, which perhaps held (idealized) elements of the past, but which was to be a new thing, excluding all real aspects of the past. And then the book ends, to be followed by two more volumes, taking Germany through the war. Shirer drew heavily on the assessments performed by the psychiatrists of the Nuremburg tribunal to build his thesis that the Nazi party was from the beginning dominated at every level by individuals with serious psychological pathologies. Shirer seriously has a point. How else can one explain the industrial complexes like Auschwitz and Majdanek that the Third Reich operated to kill non-combatants. Given the magnitude of the horror, Shirer used admirably restrained language. Nonetheless his book does indeed contain more lurid passages and strident denuncations that does Evans'. Evans paints a heartbreaking scenario of the many opportunities (albeit with hindsight) whereby Hitler could have been stopped. These include ... While many people voted Communist, one of the critical questions is why that party wasn't able to withstand the shift to the right and the Nazi onslaught. After all, the Communists had their own toughs who could (and did) fight the Brownshirts, and in many ways the Communists were the Nazis' chief rivals.

The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed

The creation of a free and comprehensive welfare system as the entitlement of all its citizens was one of the major achievements of the Weimar Republic, perhaps in retrospect its most important.” If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people with any kind of moral or political immunization against violence, atrocity, or subservience to dictatorship.” This was also the time when the Weimar Republic was experiencing strong political difficulties and the theories of Social Darwinism, Nationalism and Eugenics were gaining in popularity. Hitler grew up reading some of the early propagandists of these theories and they deeply influenced him. Driven by these impulses Hitler joined the Bavarian army to fight for Germany in the First World War. During the war he was injured and taken to a remote hospital to recuperate. Hitler too like the rest of Germany had gone into the war with assured victory and future glories of his nation in mind.

A key role in this process was played by antisemitic writers like the popular novelist Julius Langbehn, whose book Rembrandt as Educator (published in 1890) declared the Dutch artist Rembrandt to be a classic north German racial type, and pleaded for German art to return to its racial roots, a cultural imperative that would later be taken up with great enthusiasm by the Nazis.”

The Coming of the Third Reich by Sir Richard J. Evans The Coming of the Third Reich by Sir Richard J. Evans

There were Gypsies, Ukrainians, Czechs, the halt, the lame: all to be shipped away or shot. The SS cleared Polish asylums, made patients stand in line, then buried them - 2,000 in a few brutal weeks of 1939. And, of course, there were Jews; the Polish Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, then of Germany itself. 'The Jews have deserved the catastrophe they are experiencing today,' Hitler told Goebbels in 1942. 'As our enemies are annihilated, they will experience their own annihilation... We must accelerate this process with cold ruthlessness, and in so doing we are rendering an incalculable service to a human race tormented by Jewry for millennia.' That service charge in cold statistics: three million murdered in the camps, 1.3 million killed by the SS, 700,000 disposed of in mobile gas chambers, a million starved to death. Incalculable, unforgettable infamy. the anti-semitic parties had introduced a new, rabble-rousing, demagogic style of politcs that had freed itself from the customary restraints of political decorum." According to Ian Kershaw, it is "the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich". [5] It has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical scholarship." [6] Books [ edit ] The Coming of the Third Reich [ edit ]

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