The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world.Shirer's unforgettable account of the pivotal characters and events of that critical era benefits from his many years as a reporter and his own personal recollections, as well as from the mass of historical documents retrieved from the German Foreign Office. The result is a brutally objective account of how Hitler wrested political control of Germany and managed to take the country with him on his mad six-year quest for world domination, only to see it go down in flames in the end. H. R. Trevor-Roper How can we even look objectively on the Third Reich? It was the greatest, most horrible phenomenon of the twentieth century...Now, as never before, the living witnesses can converge with the historical truth. All they need is a historian. In William L. Shirer they have found him. Books of the Century, The New York Times review, October, 1960
ForewordviiBook 1The Rise of Adolf Hitler1.Birth of the Third Reich172.Birth of the Nazi Party523.Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch834.The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich120Book 2Triumph and Consolidation5.The Road to Power: 1925-311676.The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-332117.The Nazification of Germany: 1933-342638.Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37320Book 3The Road to War9.The First Steps: 1934-3738510.Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht42311.Anschluss: The Rape of Austria44012.The Road to Munich48513.Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist57814.The Turn of Poland61215.The Nazi-Soviet Pact68516.The Last Days of Peace72617.The Launching of World War II791Book 4War: Early Victories and the Turning Point18.The Fall of Poland82719.Sitzkrieg in the West83820.The Conquest of Denmark and Norway88921.Victory in the West93922.Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain99623.Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia104024.A Turn of the Tide111725.The Turn of the United States114026.The Great Turning Point: 1942--Stalingrad and El Alamein1180Book 5Beginning of the end27.The New Order122328.The Fall of Mussolini129329.The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler1316Book 6The Fall of the Third Reich30.The Conquest of Germany140931.Goetterdaemmerung: The Last Days of the Third Reich1437A Brief Epilogue1480Notes1487Acknowledgements1527Bibliography1533Index1549
