The Coming of the Third Reich
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This title unfolds perhaps the single most vital tale of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible tale not least because there were so many additional ways in which Germany’s history could have been played out. With power, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: World War I, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Fantastic Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside nearly everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take mandate.
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As I skimmed, read, and peruse this book, the similarities between persons times and now are astounding.
The last chapters especially show how the Christian Right and additional parties who had hatred and dread of homosexuals, liberals, jews, etc. were a major part in voting Hilter into office and helping him stay in office. In a desire to eradicate liberals and additional viewpoints, they raised up a tyrant.
A democracy that was felled by similar despise and dread that has been developing and has taken a stronghold of the USA government at all levels. The right wing ongoing censoring people and books as we see happening today. Searches, arrests and beatings as we have today. Currently, we have many locked up lacking due process. Science was also changed.
Are we on the same ’slippery slope’ as the Third Reich? Is our right wing ideology making a ‘monster’ built on despise, prejudice, and dread? How can modern society prevent this from happening again?
History has permanently been a fantastic teacher. Perhaps we can find some of the answers in history. A fantastic book that shows how ordinary patriotic people were brought along on a treacherous path by persons who had despise and dread in their hearts.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Evans has prepared the largest group of notes I have seen on this type of book. He documents the fact that the racial thoughts were in being all over Europe before Hitlers arrival and physical intimination by gangs of thugs was rampant among all the political parties in Germany during the period. His one major oversight, which is a distraction, is that in his research he failed to note that Hitler’s henchmen caught President Hindenberg trying to pull a quick one and used this knowledge to blackmail the ancient man. The Soc Democrats wanted to reward the ancient coot by giving him a 5000 acre junket in East Prussia. When the deed for the land was agreed to the ancient coot the deed was made out to Oscar von Hindenberg(President Paul von Hindenberg’s son) rather than the ancient man’s name. It was a blantant and illegal attempt to avoid the inheritence taxes that would come due at the death of the 82 yr ancient man who clearly was nearing his end. The Nazi’s with 34% of the vote had many supporters in the Berlin beauracies and one of Hitlers supporters brought this fact to Goering who passed it on to Hitler before Hitlers fateful meeting with the ancient fossel in early January 1933. No one knows if Hitler blackmailed the ancient man because there were no Presidential notes left of their nearly two hour meeting before Hindenberg appointed Hitler Chancellor. Hitler was ruthless so I judge he used the meeting to blackmail him because the Nazi’s added another 5000 acres to the estate after Hitler was named Chancellor as further reward for a “life of service to the Reich”.
Evans also doesn’t clarify the fact that Jews were universally despised throughout Germany and the rest of Europe. Understanding the roots of this hatred would have gone a long way to explaining why Germans, Poles, Czechs, & Austrians were so quick to help pointout Jews among the population to the brownshirts and the Eisenstatgrouppen SS of Reinhard Heydrich.
All in all his book is filled with sufficient detail to help a reader sort out the facts but too many of the details seem to get in the way and make it harder to separate the vital from the unimportant. I liked William Shirers Rise and Fall of the Third Reich better and it presents for a more readable tale–it might be that reporters are better writers than historians.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
From The Coming of the Third Reich:
Money, income, financial solidity, economic order, regularity and predictability had been at the heart of bourgeois values and bourgeois being before the war. Now all this seemed to have been swept away along with the equally levelheaded-seeming political system of the Wilhelmine Reich. A widespread cynicism started to make itself apparent in Weimar culture … It was not least as a consequence of the inflation that Weimar culture developed its fascination with criminals, embezzlers, gamblers, manipulators, thieves and crooks of all kinds. Life seemed to be a game of chance, survival a matter of the arbitrary impact of incomprehensible economic forces. In such an atmosphere, conspiracy theories started to abound. Gambling, whether at the card table or on the Stock Exchange, became a metaphor for life. Much of the cynicim that gave Weimar culture its edge in the mid-1920s and made many people eventually long for the return of idealism, self-sacrifice and patriotic dedication, derived from the disorienting effects of the hyperinflation. Hyperinflation became a trauma whose influence affected the behaviour of Germans of all classes long afterwards. It added to the feeling in the more conservative sections of the population of a world turned upside down, first by defeat, then by revolution, and now by economics. It ruined faith in the neutrality of the law as a social regulator between debtors and creditors, rich and poor, and underminded notions of the fairness and equity that the law was supposed to maintain. It debased the language of politics, already driven to hyperbolic overemphasis by the events of 1918-19. It lent new power to stock fantasy-images of evil, not just the criminal and the gambler, but also the speculator and, momentously, the financially manipulative Jew. [Before the war, the dollar had been worth just over 4 paper inscription on the exchange in Berlin. ... 4,200,000,000,000 in December (1923).]
“… (T)he crashing tread of the feet, the sombre pomp of the red and black flags, the flickering light from the torches on the faces and the songs with melodies that were at once inflaming and sentimental.
“For hours the columns marched by. Again and again amongst them we saw groups of boys and girls scarcely older than ourselves … At one point somebody suddenly leaped from the ranks of the marchers and attack a man who had been standing only a few paces away from us. Perhaps he had made a hostile remark. I saw him fall to the ground with blood streaming down his face and I heard him weep out. Our parents hurriedly drew us away from the scuffle, but they had not been able to stop us
seeing the man bleeding. The image of him haunted me for days.
“The horror it inspired in me was nearly imperceptibly spiced with an enthralling joy. ‘We want to die for the flag’, the torch-bearers had sung … I was overcome with a burning desire to belong to these people for whom it was a matter of death and life … I wanted to escape from my childish, narrow life and I wanted to attach myself to something that was fantastic and fundamental.” – Melita Maschmann
“The stupidity of democracy. It will permanently remain one of democracy’s best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was ruined.” – Joseph Goebbels
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
It is possible to write history, even about a complex theme, in a way that truly involves the reader. Margaret Macmillan’s “Paris 1919″ is an brilliant example. That is not the case with “The Coming of the Third Reich”. In fact, it’s a bit of a struggle to read at some points. The leader seems to prefer lists to analysis, and uses a weird narrative approach. I would spend my money on Kershaw’s “Hitler” over this.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
There’s really nothing new here to grab the senses. As an historian of the Third Reich I expected alot more of the first of a three volume set. Dull, tedious and certainly nothing new!
And what’s with the take in? The book is about the Third Reich but German Communist Party members are featured on the take in!! ????
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5