Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

Rupert Colley

• Publisher: HarperPress
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780007451166
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• About History in an Hour
• Introduction
• The German Revolution: The End of the Second Reich
• The Treaty of Versailles: ‘An armistice for twenty years’
• DAP: Member 555
• The Nazi Manifesto: A Thousand Years
• Munich Putsch: ‘The national revolution has begun.’
• Mein Kampf: ‘Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.’
• The Ruhr: An Economic Downturn
• The Great Depression: The Crash
• Nazi Elections: ‘He can lick stamps with my head on them.’
• Enabling Act: ‘Fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.’
• The First Anti-Jew Laws: ‘Non-citizens’.
• Night of the Long Knives: ‘The Führer’s soldierly decision and exemplary courage.’
• The Führer: 99 per cent approval
• Nazi Germany and the Economy: ‘Guns will make us strong; butter will make us fat.’
• State Control: Guilty Before Innocent
• The Family: ‘I detest women who dabble in politics.’
• Propaganda: ‘Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.’
• The Olympics
• Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
• Foreign Policy: ‘Germany will of its own accord never break the peace.’
• The Rhineland: ‘We have no territorial claims to make in Europe.’
• The Spanish Civil War: ‘Germany’s destiny for good or bad.’
• Anschluss: ‘I can strongly recommend the Gestapo to one and all.’
• The Sudetenland: ‘The last major problem to be solved.’
• Czechoslovakia: ‘That senile old rascal.’
• Poland – Guaranteed
• Germany’s War 1939: ‘This country is at war with Germany.’
• Germany’s War: 1940 to 1941
• Germany’s War: 1942 to 1945
• Appendix 1: Key Players
• Appendix 2: Timeline of Nazi Germany
• Copyright
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