Takeover : Hitler's final rise to power / Timothy W. Ryback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryback, Timothy W., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

Germany--History--1918-1933.

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Germany.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Summary:

"In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes. As membership hemorrhaged and financial backers withdrew, the Nazi Party threatened to fracture. Hitler talked of suicide. The New York Times declared he was finished. Yet somehow, in a few brief weeks, he was chancellor of Germany. In facinating detail and with previously un-accessed archival materials, Timothy W. Ryback tells the remarkable story of Hitler's dismantling of democracy through democratic process. He provides fresh perspective and insights into Hitler's personal and professional lives in these months, in all their complexity and uncertainty--backroom deals, unlikely alliances, stunning betrayals, an ill-timed tax audit, and a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. Above all, Ryback details why a wearied Hindenburg, who disdained the "Bohemian corporal," ultimately decided to appoint Hitler chancellor in January 1933. Within weeks, Germany was no longer a democracy."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Stargazing

Victims of democracy

Tranquility

The Hitler gambit

Saturday the thirteenth

Majority rules

Boys of Beuthen

Deterrent effect

Arsenal of democracy

Empire of lies

"Golden rain"

Triumph of the shrill

"Hare Hitler"

Clueless

Betrayal

Ghost of Christmas present

Hitler in Lipperland

The Strasser calibration

Visitations

Hindenburg whisperers

Fateful weekend

January 30, 1933.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Ryback, Timothy W. Takeover

ISBN:

9780593537428

0593537424

OCLC:

1388497071