The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

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Evans has presented his case well. However, he fails to account for the extraordinary evil of the Nazi Regime which made it fundamentally different in nature from those that existed in Italy, Spain and Hungary. What is going on? Here we are in 2003, almost 60 years since Hitler sent for the pistol and the cyanide, and the flow of English-language books about the Nazis - not just specialist studies, but great big respectable mainline 'bookburgers' of narrative history - is still accelerating. I mean no disrespect to Professor Evans. He has written an admirable book, as I want to show. But I find more and more that it is the German reflections on the Third Reich which matter.

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To coincide with the release of the final volume of the trilogy, Allen Lane published a limited edition boxed set ( ISBN 978-0-14-091167-1) containing special editions of the three books, using heavier paper and better binding than the regular trade editions. This set is now out of print.

The coming of the Third Reich

anti-bolshevism (enhanced by the events following the revolution in Russia and the start of the Soviet Union) and anti-communism (fuelled by several botched attempted revolutions in Germany) Richard Evans does a fantastic job imo. I love the fact that he leaves out moralizing and avoids too much editorializing. It makes for a stronger recounting of the history. And frankly I can judge for myself the terribleness of the actions, I don't need the writer needing to cram their moral outrage down my throat. I'm sufficiently outraged as it is, thank you very much ;)

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the arrogant assumptions by the military and some industrialists that Hitler could be used but also controlled ... Schleicher: if Hitler establishes a dictatorship in Germany, the army will be the dictatorship within the dictatorship ... Papen: within two months we will have pushed Hitler so far into a corner that he'll squeak

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urn:lcp:comingofthirdrei0000evan:epub:229d698b-048d-435c-b491-e3e9b1e75a1e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier comingofthirdrei0000evan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s219q7tt4cv Invoice 1652 Isbn 0141009756 This work of history takes on the task, in the author’s words: “to recount the Nazi’s rise to power through a combination of electoral success and massive political violence”. It also sets out to clarify “how the Nazis managed to establish a one-party dictatorship in Germany within a very short space of time, and with seemingly little real resistance from the German people.” In this it does an admirable job.

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My reading experience might have been salvaged by particularly graceful writing. The best I can say on that topic is that this was easier to read than Michael Burleigh’s The Third Reich: A New History. Okay, that’s not entirely justified. I should say that Evans is a mostly-unobtrusive writer. This is the kind of book that could’ve been written by anyone. Well, almost. I was annoyed with Evans’ tic of interjecting clauses into every other sentence. After his 1,000th use of “indeed” to break up a sentence, I started to wonder if he had some kind of bet going with his publisher. By 1930 at the latest, it had become clear that the Presidential power was in the hands of a man who had no faith in democratic institutions and no intention of defending them from their enemies.” It's just the sum of the contingencies of what people and nature do to each other in the irrevesrible course of time. There's nothing `inevitable' in history until it seems so after the fact. "Destiny" is a mere sleight of tongue, and `manifest destiny' is a declaration of intent rather than an anaylsis of past events, which would read truer as `manifesto: destiny.' Hegel, Marx, Tolstoy, Toynbee and such were theologians, not historians; the `Westward March' of the World Spirit is just a rhetorical parade toward the justification of national misbehavior, whether the music is the Horst Wessel Song or The Stars and Stripes Forever. I wanted to read this for a variety of reasons, but the main reason was that I wanted to get a clearer picture of how a Western democracy - 1920s Germany in this instance - could devolve into a violent terroristic regime like the Nazis. I'm worried about some of the parallels I'm seeing today, I get eery feelings that what happened in Germany, the circumstances that allowed for democracy to devolve into violent terroristic regime, is being replicated in today's circumstances facing contemporary Western democracies. The possibility of contemporary democracies falling into more radical governments fueled by hate, anger, and the politics of exclusion is possible in any country, imo. In fact it is already happening, the question is how far we will fall.

One finally puts down this magnificent volume thirsty, on the one hand, for the next installment in the Nazi saga yet still haunted by the questions Evan poses and so masterfully grapples with.”― Abraham Brumberg, The Nation Evans also states in the intro that this is the perfect book for beginners who don’t know much about this time period and I disagree. I think it’s much too long and frankly isn’t interesting enough for beginners of this period.