1933
by Philip Metcalfe
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"Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Metcalfe distills the personalities, viewpoints, and day-to-day reactions of five alert and often directly involved witnesses to Hitler's consolidation of power. They are: U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, and his high-spirited daughter, Martha; Bella Fromm, a glamorous German society columnist who was Jewish and made no secret of it; Ernest Hanfstaengl, Hitler's somewhat buffoonish foreign-press chief; and Rudolf Diels, the first head of the show more Gestapo." -Publishers Weekly show lessTags
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Basically the tale of the Nazi consolidation of power, covering January of 1933 to June 30, 1934. The background to the Night of the Long Knives, using diaries, memoirs and diplomatic notes as background. Fascinating and well done.
The gathering storm didn't run on time; nothing was foreordained. We know what happened such that future events cast their shadows behind them, but even the NSDAP had to come to grips with the levers of power.
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Rainbow pocketboeken (110)
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- Canonical title*
- 1933
- Original title
- 1933
- Original publication date
- 1988 (American ed.) (American ed.); 1989 (Dutch ed.) (Dutch ed.)
- Important places
- Berlin, Germany
- Dedication*
- Voor Jane
- First words*
- Op een zwart-witfoto uit de jaren dertig staat een Amerikaans gezin op het eersteklasdek van een passagiersschip.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nog maar zelden bereikten afwijkende meningen uit Duitsland het buitenland, overstemd als ze werden door de jubelende menigten en het gestamp waarmee de Duitse leiders voortmarcherden op hun weg de geschiedenis in.
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Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 943.086 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945
- LCC
- DD256.5 .M483 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany History By period Modern, 1519- 19th-20th centuries Revolution and Republic, 1918- Hitler, 1933-1945. National socialism Period of World War II, 1939-1945
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- Members
- 162
- Popularity
- 201,999
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.04)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, Italian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 2
