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Chronicles the rise and eventual fall of Nazi Germany. Chronicles the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party following the collapse of Germany following World War I.

"Paul Joseph Goebbels (help·info) (German: [œbls];[1] 29 October 1897? 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous orations and visceral and homicidal antisemitism."--Wikipedia.

The capital of the Nazi movement was not Berlin but Munich. So said the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, of this handsome Bavarian town on the banks of the Isar River. Munich, the city of baroque buildings, fine art museums, and Oktoberfest, was where Hitler felt most at home. It was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultural shrine of the Third Reich. Why did Nazism flourish in the "Athens of the Isar"? In exploring this question, David Clay Large...

This comprehensive one-volume history of Nazi Germany includes discussions of the origins of totalitarianism and the historical roots of the Nazi Party.

German big business before 1933 did not, on the whole, support Hitler and his political program. Antisemitism was regarded by German business circles with distaste as a vulgar and plebeian phenomenon, and the Nazis had to play it down. Nazi attacks on Jewish "finance capitalism" are also mentioned.

"Why did war criminals like Goering, Hess, Kaltenbrunner, Keitel, and Rosenberg do what they did? Under Hitler how were men such as these able to get themselves into control of a great and civilized nation? Was it simply a case, as Hannah Arendt has argued, of the banality of evil - in a certain psychological climate, everybody does it? Or, as Stanley Milgram has argued, was it simply a matter of obedience to authority?"--Jacket.

"The swastika () (Sanskrit: ??M?5?8?M?$????) is an equilateral cross with four arms bent at 90 degrees. The earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization, Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in various other ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, primarily...

Stands as Hilter's own stories of his life, his political philosophy, and his thwarted plans for world domination.