The Coming of the Third Reich

List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps and Diagrams xiii
Preface X V

The Legacy of the Past T
GERMAN PECULIARITIES
GOSPELS OF HATE
THE SPIRIT OF 1914 42.
DESCENT INTO CHAOS 6o
2 The Failure of Democracy 77
THE WEAKNESSES OF WEIMAR 78
THE GREAT INFLATION T 0 3
CULTURE WARS I T8
THE FIT AND THE UNF1T 139
3 The Rise of Nazism 33
BOHEMIAN REVOLUTIONARIES 136
THE BEER-HALL PUTSCH 176
REBUILDING THE MOVEMENT 195
THE ROOTS OF COMMITMENT 2.17
4 Towards the Seizure of Power2.31
THE GREAT DEPRESSION 232.
THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY 247
THE VICTORY OF VIOLENCE 2.66
FATEFUL DECISIONS 2.89


5 Creating the Third Reich jog
THE TERROR BEGINS 3 T 0
FIRE IN THE REICHSTAG 32.8
DEMOCRACY DESTROYED 350
BRINGING GERMANY INTO LINE 375
6 Hitler's Cultural Rev.olution 391
DISCORDANT NOTES 392.
THE PURGE OF THE ARTS 405
`AGAINST THE UN-GERMAN SPIRIT' 419
A 'REVOLUTION OF DESTRUCTION'? 44T

Notes 462.
Bibliography 535
Index 585