Four Days in Hitler's Germany : Mackenzie King's Mission to Avert a Second World War / Robert Teigrob.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teigrob, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie.

Canada.

DISCOUNT-C.

Hitler.

Mackenzie King.

Nazi Germany.

Second World War.

antisemitism.

commemoration.

memory.

Local Subjects:

Canada.

DISCOUNT-C.

Hitler.

Mackenzie King.

Nazi Germany.

Second World War.

antisemitism.

commemoration.

memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1937, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King travelled to Nazi Germany in an attempt to prevent a war that, to many observers, seemed inevitable. The men King communed with, including Adolf Hitler, had assured him of the Nazi regime's peaceful intentions, and King not only found their pledges sincere, but even hoped for personal friendships with many of the regime officials. Four Days in Hitler's Germany is a clearly written and engaging story that addresses how King truly believed that any threat to peace would come only from those individuals who intended to thwart the Nazi agenda, which as King saw it, was concerned primarily with justifiable German territorial and diplomatic readjustments. Mackenzie King was certainly not alone in misreading the omens in the 1930s, but it would be difficult to find a democratic leader who missed the mark by a wider margin. This book seeks to explain the sources and outcomes of King's misperceptions and diplomatic failures, and follows him as he returns to Germany to tour the appalling aftermath of the very war he had tried to prevent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Crerar's Map of Berlin, 1937

Prologue: Values, Interests, and Foreign Relations

1. Of Lions and Lyons

2. Arrival

3. Beholding the Nazi Miracle

4. Shrugging Off the British Yoke

5. The Holy Errand

6. Sympathy for the Devil

7. Haunted Berlin

8. Arbeit Macht Frei

9. Whither the Jews?

10. The Uses and Abuses of Mackenzie King

11. Canada Makes Headlines!

12. Atavistic Beasts: Der Dicke and His Bison

13. Baiting Godwin's Law

14. The Interview

15. Savouring the Triumph, with an Assist from Verdi

16. Taking Leave

17. Home

18. Failure of a Mission, or The War That Harry Crerar Foretold

19. Aftermath

Epilogue: Perspectives

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-0565-5

1-4875-0566-3

OCLC:

1101100995