Why Hitler?
Subtitle: the genesis of the Nazi Reich
By: Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780275954857
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; National socialism.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.; Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
Description: Hitler attained power in 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors, including the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; the German's lack of faith in democracy and the reasons behind it; the corruption and mismanagement that characterized the Weimar Republic, as democratic Germany was called; the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, during which the German currency lost 99.3% of its value in just 12 weeks and the cost of eggs soared to 80 billion marks each.

The Great Depression, during which nearly a quarter of the German work force was unemployed; the political and economic instability of the times, in which the Nazis thrived; and the evil genius of Adolf Hitler, master politician. Why Hitler? transports the reader back to the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s, to a time when a country and a civilization began its apocalyptic descent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Fall of the Second Reich; title: The Freikorps and the war after the War; title: The Treaty of Versailles; title: Enter Adolf Hitler; title: Street violence and inflation; title: The Beer Hall Putsch; title: Political stability and the Nazi Party's slow growth period, 1924-1929; title: The Great Depression and political chaos; title: The suicide of Geli Raubal; title: Continuous electioneering and "cattle trading"; title: Hitler achieves his goal