The Rise of the Nazis (New Frontiers in History)

By Conan Fischer

Book Overview

How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated and important discoveries continue to challenge long standing assumptions. Beginning with an overview of the historical context within which Nazism grew, looking at the foreign relations, politics and society of Weimar and in particular at the role of the elites in the rise of Nazism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719060672
• ISBN13: 9780719060670
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Non-expert review.

I checked this book out of the University of New Mexico Library. It has proven to be easy to read yet informative, especially in regard to how the Nazis obtained power. It concentrates almost exclusively on the period before Hitlar was elected chancelor (1933). If this is the information you are looking for then it's probably worth picking up. Be warned that it does assume some existing knowledge of Germany at that time, however and is probably not a good first book on the subject.