The Hitler Years A Photographic Documentary

Matanle, Ivor.

ISBN 10: 0861368169 / ISBN 13: 9780861368167

Published by Gallery, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hitler Years A Photographic Documentary
• Publisher: Gallery
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861368169
• ISBN 13: 9780861368167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Adolf Hitler's legacies of a redrawn Europe, a cohesive Western Alliance and a subjugated East are a major part of our lives; a daily feature of our news. The ill-educated Austrian who strove to emulate from his adopted country the feats of Napoleon Bonaparte both achieved more, and lost more, than his illustrious Corsican predecessor did for his adopted France. Hitler brought Germany a might it had not known since Frederick the Great and conquered most of Europe. He rebuilt Germany after the humiliation of Versailles and the economic tragedies of the Weimar Republic and the great Depression. He commanded fervent, almost idolatrous support from millions. And yet that same Adolf Hitler engineered the greatest single human tragedy the world has ever known, destroyed the pride, the unity and the fabric of the nation that followed him, and disrupted the lives and futures of millions with political upheaval on a scale the world has not seen before or since. Succeeding generations must not only understand the immense scale of the tragedy and suffering that Hitler's Germany brought upon the world, but must also be able to recognise the political environment and social momentum that enabled Hitler to gain and retain power. For it could happen again, from the Left or the Right of the political spectrum. It could, and must not, happen again.