From The Kaiserhof To The Reich Chancellery

Author : Joseph Goebbels
Publisher : Ostara Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646065638

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From the Kaiserhof to the Reich Chancellery by Joseph Goebbels Pdf

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph's Goebbels diaries from January 1932 to May 1933 provide a first-hand chronicle of the tumultuous time which saw Adolf Hitler propelled from his civilian headquarters at the Kaiserhof Hotel into the office of Chancellor of Germany. The day-by-day entries provide riveting reading and reveal long-suppressed facts, such as: - How the Weimar "democracy" forced the Nazis into fighting elections while banning their newspapers and forbidding them to hold public meetings; - The campaign of terrorism and murder waged against the NSDAP by the communists; -The NSDAP's funding; -The clash with the socialist Strasserite wing of the party; -The political intrigues which eventually forced the establishment to offer the post of Chancellor to Hitler after three general elections in one year; -The burning of the Reichstag; - The Jewish declaration of war against Germany and the counter-boycott of Jewish shops in German, organized by the author; and much more. An essential and fascinating account of the Nazi road to power, first published in Germany in 1933, and then in English in 1938 under the title "My Part in Germany's Fight." This new edition has been completely reset and includes 18 appendices containing full English translations of a number articles by the author, taken from his oft-banned newspaper, Der Angriff and from speeches made at the time. Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and gained his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 19th century romantic drama. He joined the NSDAP in 1924 and founded the party in Berlin, where, with only 200 supporters, he eventually captured the communist-supporting city for Hitler. Appointed minister of propaganda, Goebbels played a leading role in the Third Reich and committed suicide in 1945, loyal to Hitler until the end. CONTENTS Preface Diary entries January 1, 1932 to May 1, 1933 Appendices (not included in original edition) Illustrated.

Author : Christian Adam
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800730403

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Bestsellers of the Third Reich by Christian Adam Pdf

Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era’s most popular books were diverse and often surprising in retrospect, despite an oppressive ideological and cultural climate: Huxley’s Brave New World was widely read in the 1930s, while Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars was a great success during the war years. Bestsellers of the Third Reich surveys this motley collection of books, along with the circumstances of their publication, to provide an innovative new window into the history of Nazi Germany.

Author : Janosch Steuwer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253065346

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A Third Reich, As I See It by Janosch Steuwer Pdf

"With the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship, Germany not only experienced a deep political turning point but the private life of Germans also changed fundamentally. The Nazi regime had far-reaching ideas about how the individual should think and act. In "A Third Reich, as I See It" Janosch Steuwer examines the private diaries of ordinary Germans written between 1933 and 1939 and shows how average citizens reacted to the challenges of National Socialism. Some felt the urge and desire to adapt to the political circumstances. Others felt compelled to do so. They all contributed to the realization of the vision of a homogeneous, conflict-free, and "racially pure" society. In a detailed manner and with a convincing sense of the bigger picture, Steuwer shows how the tense efforts of people to fit in, and at the same time to preserve existing opinions and self-conceptions, led to a close intertwining of the private and the political. "A Third Reich, as I See It" offers a surprisingly new look at how the ideological visions of National Socialism found their way into the everyday reality of Germans"--

Author : Victor Klemperer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826491305

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Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer Pdf

Victor Klemperer was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. Presenting a study of language and its engagement with history, this book draws form Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture.

Author : Hans Fallada
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745681566

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A Stranger in My Own Country by Hans Fallada Pdf

“I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.” Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of “inward emigration”. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from the nightmare of the Nazi years. He records his thoughts about spying and denunciation, about the threat to his livelihood and his literary work and about the fate of many friends and contemporaries. The confessional mode did not come naturally to Fallada, but in the mental and emotional distress of 1944, self-reflection became a survival strategy. Fallada’s frank and sometimes provocative memoirs were thought for many years to have been lost. They are published here for the first time.

Author : United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Germany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026307418

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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression by United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality Pdf

Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735234826

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The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett Pdf

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany's leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler's hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicans show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.

Author : Heike B. Gortemaker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307742605

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Eva Braun by Heike B. Gortemaker Pdf

From one of Germany’s leading young historians, the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun, Hitler’s devoted mistress, finally wife, and the hidden First Lady of the Third Reich. In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike Görtemaker reveals Hitler’s mistress as more than just a vapid blonde whose concerns never extended beyond her vanity table. Twenty-three years his junior, Braun first met Hitler when she took a position as an assistant to his personal photographer. Capricious, but uncompromising and fiercely loyal—she married Hitler two days before committing suicide with him in Berlin in 1945—her identity was kept secret by the Third Reich until the final days of the war. Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker turns preconceptions about Eva Braun and Hitler on their head, and builds a portrait of the little-known Hitler far from the public eye.

Author : Philip Metcalfe
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504033602

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1933 by Philip Metcalfe Pdf

“Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Metcalfe distills the personalities, viewpoints, and day-to-day reactions of five alert and often directly involved witnesses to Hitler’s consolidation of power. They are: U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, and his high-spirited daughter, Martha; Bella Fromm, a glamorous German society columnist who was Jewish and made no secret of it; Ernest Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s somewhat buffoonish foreign-press chief; and Rudolf Diels, the first head of the Gestapo.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Therese Hörnigk,Alexander Stephan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826409539

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The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic by Therese Hörnigk,Alexander Stephan Pdf

Author : Thomas Friedrich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300166705

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Hitler's Berlin by Thomas Friedrich Pdf

A leading expert on the 20th-century history of Berlin, employing new and little-known German sources to track Hitler's attitudes and plans for the city, presents a fascinating new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, a place filled with grandiose architecture and imperial ideals, which he used as a platform for his political agenda.

Author : International Military Tribunal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
ISBN : MINN:31951D00154169U

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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949 by International Military Tribunal Pdf

Author : Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Military Tribunals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
ISBN : UOM:39015058010425

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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949: Case 3: U.S. v. Altstoeter (Justice case) by Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Military Tribunals Pdf

Author : Peter Longerich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1339 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Germany
ISBN : 9780198796091

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Hitler by Peter Longerich Pdf

The story of how Adolf Hitler created his 'Führer dictatorship' -- consistently and ruthlessly destroying everything that stood in his way, and with with terrifying and almost limitless power over the German people.

Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493018055

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1932 by David Pietrusza Pdf

Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president—ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished “Wonder Boy” Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests—doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising radical hate-monger Adolf Hitler. The outcome seemed foreordained—unstoppable forces advancing upon crumbled, disoriented societies. A merciless Great Depression brought greater—perhaps hopeful, perhaps deadly—transformation: FDR’s New Deal and Hitler’s Third Reich. But neither outcome was inevitable. Readers enter the fray through David Pietrusza’s page-turning account: Roosevelt’s fellow Democrats may yet halt him at a deadlocked convention. 1928’s Democratic nominee, Al Smith, harbors a grudge against his one-time protege. Press baron William Randolph Hearst lays his own plans to block Roosevelt’s ascent to the White House. FDR’s politically-inspired juggling of a New York City scandal threatens his juggernaut. In Germany, the Nazis surge at the polls but twice fall short of Reichstag majorities. Hitler, tasting power after a lifetime of failure and obscurity, falls to Hindenburg for the presidency—also twice within the year. Cabals and counter-cabals plot. Secrets of love and suicide haunt Hitler. Yet guile and ambition may yet still prevail. 1932’s breathtaking narrative covers two epic stories that possess haunting parallels to today’s crisis-filled vortex. It is an all-too-human tale of scapegoats and panaceas, class warfare and racial politics, of a seemingly bottomless depression, of massive unemployment and hardship, of unprecedented public works/infrastructure programs, of business stimulus programs and damaging allegations of political cronyism, of waves of bank failures and of mortgages foreclosed, of Washington bonus marches and Berlin street fights, of once-solid financial empires collapsing seemingly overnight, of rapidly shifting social mores, and of mountains of irresponsible international debt threatening to crash not just mere nations but the entire global economy. It is the tale of spell-binding leaders versus bland businessmen and out-of-touch upper-class elites and of two nations inching to safety but lurching toward disaster. It is 1932’s nightmare—with lessons for today.