Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

Nazi Germany: History in an Hour
Rupert Colley

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Having suffered during World War One – not only the indignities of political betrayal and battlefield defeat but also starvation, fuel shortages and a domestic flu epidemic – the German people were left in widespread discontent. Soon inflation and economic stagnation had further sunk the nation into exhaustion, humiliation and disillusionment.Capitalizing on the nation’s instability, the Nazi Party, led by the embittered former soldier Adolf Hitler, achieved an improbable political dominance. Nazi Germany: History in an Hour explains how the elimination of political rivals and the Weimar constitution created a Nazi controlled Germany. Under violent state control and propaganda, life was altered across society, for women, for the family and, most significantly, for the Jews. As Hitler manipulated foreign policy to impose his ideology, Nazi Germany brought the world into war.Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…

NAZI GERMANY

History in an Hour

Rupert Colley

Contents

Cover (#u89e8bd2b-89eb-5cb8-be99-ed0dd9c8e039)

Title Page (#u86dc24b2-819b-587f-afc1-6327f49179bc)

About History in an Hour

Introduction

The German Revolution: The End of the Second Reich

The Treaty of Versailles: ‘An armistice for twenty years’

DAP: Member 555

The Nazi Manifesto: A Thousand Years

Munich Putsch: ‘The national revolution has begun.’

Mein Kampf: ‘Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.’

The Ruhr: An Economic Downturn

The Great Depression: The Crash

Nazi Elections: ‘He can lick stamps with my head on them.’

Enabling Act: ‘Fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.’

The First Anti-Jew Laws: ‘Non-citizens’.

Night of the Long Knives: ‘The Führer’s soldierly decision and exemplary courage.’

The Führer: 99 per cent approval

Nazi Germany and the Economy: ‘Guns will make us strong; butter will make us fat.’

State Control: Guilty Before Innocent

The Family: ‘I detest women who dabble in politics.’

Propaganda: ‘Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.’

The Olympics

Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass

Foreign Policy: ‘Germany will of its own accord never break the peace.’

The Rhineland: ‘We have no territorial claims to make in Europe.’

The Spanish Civil War: ‘Germany’s destiny for good or bad.’

Anschluss: ‘I can strongly recommend the Gestapo to one and all.’

The Sudetenland: ‘The last major problem to be solved.’

Czechoslovakia: ‘That senile old rascal.’

Poland – Guaranteed

Germany’s War 1939: ‘This country is at war with Germany.’

Germany’s War: 1940 to 1941

Germany’s War: 1942 to 1945

Appendix 1: Key Players

Appendix 2: Timeline of Nazi Germany

Copyright

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About the Publisher

About History in an Hour (#u9ba3ffa7-cd7b-5361-b7b7-9b905b5b00cc)

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Introduction (#u9ba3ffa7-cd7b-5361-b7b7-9b905b5b00cc)

‘And so it had all come to this. Did all this happen only so that a gang of wretched criminals could lay hands on the Fatherland? Hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for this deed.’ The words are those of Adolf Hitler; the deed – Germany’s surrender in the First World War; and the wretched criminals – the politicians who had meekly accepted the surrender and the defeat of Germany.