Frank McDonough

A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK OF 2023 The prequel to Frank McDonough s bestselling Hitler Years series covering the dramatic era of German history that culminated in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933 Established in the wake of German defeat in the First World War the Weimar Republic held out the hope that democracy stability and prosperity would take root in Germany From the start however it was beset by political and economic upheaval and spasms of violence between left and right Year by year from 1918 to 1933 Frank McDonough describes the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them together with developments in Weimar s flourishing cultural sphere McDonough places particular focus on the parliamentary history of Weimar arguing that it was the failure of parliamentary democracy to bring stability that allowed the power of the elected Reichstag to diminish leading to Hitler s accession to power The Weimar Years is the tragic story of a rise and fall as well as a warning of how under poor leadership economic pressure and unrelent

Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series The penultimate title in the Hitler s Germany series the book marks the end of the Second World War and the end of the Nazi regime offering the reader a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters significant events of this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s that would evolve into full blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two The Hitler Years Holocaust 1933 1945 describes in detail the development of early persecution formulated by Adolf Hitler from as far back as the early 1920s placing in context what was to come once the Nazi Party gained power in 1933 the Nuremberg Laws to constrain the German Jewish population It covers the country s slow slide into a pre war policy of intimidation that would culminate in the murderous attacks on Kristallnacht the Night of Broken Glass As Europe marched into another global conflict in 1939 tens of thousands of German Jews had fled the country only to be swept up as Hitler s armies conquered all Western Europe With the invasion of the Soviet Union the secret meeting in early 1942 the Wannsee Conference wou

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Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily TelegraphBook of the Week (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. Frank McDonoughs work has been described as, modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of their friends, neighbours, colleagues and even relatives who were often drawn into the Gestapos web of intrigue. The book reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers. This book will also show that the Gestapo lacked the manpower and resources to spy on everyone as it was reliant on tip offs from the general public. Yet this did not mean the Gestapo was a weak or inefficient instrument of Nazi terror. On the contrary, it ruthlessly and efficiently targeted its officers against clearly defined political and racial enemies of the people. The Gestapo will provide a chilling new doorway into the everyday life of the Third Reich and give powerful testimony from the victims of Nazi terror and poignant life stories of those who opposed Hitlers regime while challenging popular myths about the Gestapo.

La Gestapo, la policía secreta de estado, fue el principal instrumento del terror en la Alemania nazi. El profesor McDonough nos lo muestra en un libro extraordinario, en que ha utilizado la documentacion conservada para mostrarnos desde abajo, desde la experiencia de los propios ciudadanos, la naturaleza real del terror al que estaban sometidos. No se trata aqui de los campos de exterminio ni de las ejecuciones en masa, sino de la experiencia cotidiana de la persecucion contra determinados grupos religiosos, contra los comunistas, los marginados sociales, los judios& x02026; Un terror que tenia una de sus principales armas en la denuncia de vecinos, compañeros de trabajo o familiares. McDonough reconstruye este mundo a partir de las historias concretas de hombres y mujeres comunes que fueron victimas de unos crimenes por los que la Gestapo se libro despues de castigo.