The a history of Nazi GermanyShirer, William L. (William Lawrence)1904-1993creatorauthor.auttextbibliographyAcademic DissertationAcademic theses.nyu19601960monographiceng

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xii, 1245 pages ; 23 cmHistory of Nazi Germany.When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer's sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living in Germany as an international correspondent throughout the war. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich earned Shirer a National Book Award and continues to be recognized as one of the most important and authoritative books about the Third Reich and Nazi Germany ever written. The diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, as well as evidence and other testimony gained at the Nuremberg Trials, could not have found more artful hands. Shirer gives a clear, detailed, and well-documented account of how it was that Adolf Hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a chilling and illuminating portrait of mankind's darkest hours. -- Provided by publisher.Book one: The rise of Adolf Hitler -- Book two: Triumph and consolidation -- Book three: The road to war -- Book four: War: Early victories and the turning point -- Book five: Beginning of the end -- Book six: The fall of the Third Reich.Foreword -- Book one. Rise of Adolf Hitler: 1. Birth of the Third Reich -- 2. Birth of the Nazi party -- 3. Versailles, Weimar and the beer hall putsch -- 4. Mind of Hitler and the roots of the Third Reich. -- Book 2. Triumph and consolidation: 5. Road to power : 1925-31 -- 6. Last days of the republic : 1931-33 -- 7. Nazification of Germany : 1933-34 -- 8. Life in the Third Reich : 1933-37. -- Book 3. The road to war: 9. First steps : 1934-37 -- 10. Strange, fateful interlude : the fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht -- 11. Anschluss : the rape of Austria -- 12. Road to Munich -- 13. Czechoslovakia ceases to exist -- 14. Turn of Poland -- 15. Nazi-Soviet pact -- 16. Last days of peace -- 17. Launching of World War II. -- Book 4. War : early victories and the turning point: 18. Fall of Poland -- 19. Sitzkrieg in the West -- 20. Conquest of Denmark and Norway -- 21. Victory in the West -- 22. Operation Sea Lion : the thwarted invasion of Britain -- 23. Barbarossa : the turn of Russia -- 24. Turn of the tide -- 25. Turn of the United States -- 26. Great turning point : 1942, Stalingrad and El Alamein. -- Book 5. Beginning of the end: 27. New order -- 28. Fall of Mussolini -- 29. Allied invasion of Western Europe and the attempt to kill Hitler. -- Book 6. Fall Of The Third Reich: 30. Conquest of Germany -- 31. Goetterdaemmerung : the last days of the Third Reich. -- A brief epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.by William L. Shirer.Includes bibliographical references (pages 1181-1191) and index.committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program AEU HathiTrust Shared Print commitment 2017e-gx---Hitler, Adolf1889-1945 1933-1945 fast National socialismWorld War, 1939-1945GermanyGermanyHistory1933-1945DD256.5 .S6Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993.New York, Simon and Schuster, 1960(OCoLC)6912145060671624202978067162420014516516869781451651683978145164259914516425981439512698978143951269260006729https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.507734/page/n3/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.507734/page/n3/mode/2up75041820241126094521.0ocm01286630 eng