Looking for good book on 1933
Looking for good book on 1933
Does anyone know of a good book about Germany in 1933, the first year of the third reich. I've been intrested in how non-Nazi parties, unions, and other organization reacted to the new government, in the few months that they had to live as legal organizations.
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You might try William Sheridan Allen, "The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1930-1935," Quadrangle Books (paperback) 1965. It explores in minute detail the dramatic rise of Nazism through the microcosm of a single small (c. 10,000 inhabitants) town, of which there were close to 1,000 in Germany and in which lived about 1 out of every 7 Germans. I personally found it highly interesting.
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Rob, you might also try Eliot Barculo Wheaton's "The Nazi Revolution 1933-1935: Prelude to Calamity", Doubleday & Company, 1968 (paperback edition published by Anchor Books, 1969). I read it some 30 years ago with great interest and then forgot about it until I came across it in my library today. As I recall, it is quite well written, highly detailed and apparently well researched, with extensive notes and bibliography (although by now somewhat dated.)
Regards, Kaschner
Regards, Kaschner