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Why Hitler?: The Genesis of the Nazi Reich
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Why Hitler?: The Genesis of the Nazi Reich Hardback - 1996

by Samuel W. Mitcham

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Transporting the reader to the Germany of the 1920s and '30s, this history details the climate that brought the crumbling of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Reich. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., is an internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany and World War II.

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Hardback. New. How did an Austrian tramp named Adolf Hitler become Germany's chancellor, in a position to launch the most infamous reign of terror experienced in the 20th century? The book shows the Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s, as the Nazis grasped for power and Germany's democratic foundations crumbled.
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  • Title Why Hitler?: The Genesis of the Nazi Reich
  • Author Samuel W. Mitcham
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Westport, CT
  • Date 1996-11-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780275954857
  • ISBN 9780275954857 / 0275954854
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.38 x 1.01 in (24.13 x 16.21 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects National socialism, Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945
  • Dewey Decimal Code 943.085

From the rear cover

Hitler attained power in 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors, including the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; the German's lack of faith in democracy and the reasons behind it; the corruption and mismanagement that characterized the Weimar Republic, as democratic Germany was called; the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, during which the German currency lost 99.3% of its value in just 12 weeks and the cost of eggs soared to 80 billion marks each; the Great Depression, during which nearly a quarter of the German work force was unemployed; the political and economic instability of the times, in which the Nazis thrived; and the evil genius of Adolf Hitler, master politician. Why Hitler? transports the reader back to the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s, to a time when a country and a civilization began its apocalyptic descent.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 12/01/1996, Page 0

About the author

SAMUEL W. MITCHAM, JR. is an internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany and the Second World War and is the author of more than 15 books on the subject, including Crumbling Empire (Praeger, 2001), Retreat to the Reich (Praeger, 2000), and The Desert Fox in Normandy (Praeger, 1997), as well as several dozen articles./e A former army helicopter pilot and company commander, he is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College. He has been a professor of geography and military history since 1984. He lives in rural Louisiana.