David Clay Large

I have recently become interested in German history. I'm partly German and want to understand its history. I also have wanted to go to Berlin and felt I should understand its troubled history. This book was easy read and I enjoyed it.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand Berlin and its troubled history.

Lost interest in the subject, but looked like a useful historical study.

The capital of the Nazi movement was not Berlin but Munich. So said the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, of this handsome Bavarian town on the banks of the lsar River. Munich, the city of baroque buildings, fine art museums, and Oktoberfest, was where Hitler felt most at home. lt was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultura! shrine of the Third Reich. Why did Nazism flourish in the "Athens of the lsar"? In exploring this question, Davic Clay Large has written a compelling narrative account show more of the cultura! roots of the Nazi movement. His focus on Munich allows us to see that the conventional explanations for the movement's rise are not enough. Germany's defeat in World War l, the deep resentment of the Versailles peace settlement, the failure of Weimar, and the economie strains of the 1930s ali have their piace. So too does Munich's unique experience with revolutionary violence in 1918-19 when "soviet" regimes seized control of the city and then collapsed. But for Large the story is not only politica! but cultura!. The roots of Nazism run deeper than the topsoil of politica! circumstance. show less