The Coming of the Third Reich

Richard J. Evans wagt sich mit Fachautorität, einem ungeheuren Wissensschatz und großem Einfühlungsvermögen an eine epochale Gesamtdarstellung des Dritten Reichs.Richard J. Evans's major new book unfolds the story of how in less than a single decade a stable and modern country led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. It is a book by which all others must be judged.Richard J. Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany explores how the First World War, the Weimar Republic and the Great Depression paved the way for Nazi rule.They started as little more than a gang of extremists and thugs, yet in a few years the Nazis had turned Germany into a one-party state and led one of Europe's most advanced nations into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair.