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A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning research, and recently discovered archival material.
In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as part of widespread resentment towards cosmopolitan liberal democracy and capitalism. This was a global situation that pushed Germany to embrace authoritarianism, nationalism and economic self-sufficiency, kick-starting a revolution founded on new media technologies, and the formidable political and self-promotional skills of its leader.
Based on award-winning research and recently discovered archival material, The Death Of Democracy is a panoramic new survey of one of the most important periods in modern history, and a book with a resounding message for the world today.
A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World
War--a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated
recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.
Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military
commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessity for a war of
aggression in eastern Europe. Some generals are unnerved by the
Fuhrer's grandiose plan, but these dissenters are silenced one by
one, setting in motion events that will culminate in the most
calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett takes us behind the
scenes in Berlin, London, Moscow, and Washington, revealing the
unsettled politics within each country in the wake of the German
dictator's growing provocations. He reveals the fitful path by
which anti-Nazi forces inside and outside Germany came to
understand Hitler's true menace to European civilization and
learned to oppose him, painting a sweeping portrait of governments
under siege, as larger-than-life figures struggled to turn events
to their advantage. As in The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed
history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, Hett draws on original
sources and newly released documents to show how these long-ago
conflicts have unexpected resonances in our own time. To read The
Nazi Menace is to see past and present in a new and unnerving
light.
In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power.
Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile
coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in
the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen cabinet
posts. Then on February 27th, arson sent the Reichstag, the home
and symbol of German democracy, up in flames. Immediately blaming
the Communists, Hitler's new government approved a decree that tore
the heart out of the democratic constitution of the Weimar Republic
and cancelled the rule of law. Five thousand people were
immediately arrested. The Reichstag fire marked the true beginning
of the Third Reich, which ruled for 12 more years. The controversy
surrounding the fire's origins has endured for 80. In Burning the
Reichstag, Benjamin Hett offers a gripping account of Hitler's rise
to dictatorship-one that challenges orthodoxy and recovers the true
significance of the part the fire played. At the scene the police
arrested 23-year-old Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist
stonemason. Though he was initially dismissed abroad as a Nazi
tool, post-war historians since the 1950s have largely judged him
solely guilty-a lone arsonist exploited by Hitler. Hett's book
reopens the case, providing vivid portraits of key figures,
including Rudolf Diels, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and the
historian Fritz Tobias, whose account of the fire has, until now,
been the standard. Making use of a number of new sources and
archives, Hett sets the Reichstag fire in a wider context,
revealing how and why it has remained one of the last mysteries of
the Nazi period, and one of the most controversial and contested
events in the 20th century. Burning the Reichstag will stand as the
landmark work on this subject.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed
worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this
valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
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edition identification: ++++ The Use And Abuse Of Christian
Liberty: A Sermon Preach'd At The Assizes Held At Chelmsford, For
The County Of Essex. On ... August The First, 1717. ... By Benjamin
Carter, ... Benjamin Carter printed for John Wyat, 1717
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
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++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)T174754London: printed for John Wyat,
1726. 4],24p.; 4
From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square ringed by bleak
slums, to Moabit, site of the city's most feared prison, "Death in
the Tiergarten" illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late
imperial Germany. In vivid prose, Benjamin Hett examines daily
movement through the Berlin criminal courts and the lawyers,
judges, jurors, thieves, pimps, and murderers who inhabited this
world.
Drawing on previously untapped sources, including court records,
pamphlet literature, and pulp novels, Hett examines how the law
reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly
changing city. In this book, German criminal law looks very
different from conventional narratives of a rigid, static system
with authoritarian continuities traceable from Bismarck to Hitler.
From the murder trial of Anna and Hermann Heinze in 1891 to the
surprising treatment of the notorious Captain of Koepenick in 1906,
Hett illuminates a transformation in the criminal justice system
that unleashed a culture war fought over issues of permissiveness
versus discipline, the boundaries of public discussion of crime and
sexuality, and the role of gender in the courts.
Trained in both the law and history, Hett offers a uniquely
valuable perspective on the dynamic intersections of law and
society, and presents an impressive new view of early
twentieth-century German history.
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