Why Hitler? : the genesis of the Nazi Reich / Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.

Germany.

Politics and government.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Germany--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Economic conditions.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

Hitler, Adolf.

National socialism.

Physical Description:

xii, 205 pages 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0275954854

OCLC:

34514893