Takeover : : Hitler's final rise to power

Title Takeover : : Hitler's final rise to power
Names Ryback, Timothy W.
Length 1 online resource (audio (11 hours, 10 minutes))
Book Number DB120289
Title Status Active
Narrator Attlee, Richard.
Language English
Annotation "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. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Medium Digital Books
Audience Notes Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Unrated. NLS/BPD
Local Subject Unrated - UNRAT
World History - 900W
War - NonFiction - WARN
Biography - BIO
Europe - Central Europe, Germany - 943
History - Europe - 940
LC Subject Germany - History - 1918-1933
Germany - History - 1933-1945
Nonfiction
Call Number 943.086 ANF
Released 2024
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2024.
Original Publication Reissue of: New York : Penguin Random House Audio, 2024. 9780593824740.
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