The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler

by Davidson, Eugene

• ISBN13: 9780826215291
• ISBN10: 0826215297
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr

Summary

The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler, which includes dozens of photos from German collections, covers literally every aspect of Hitler's life from his success after he came to power in 1933 to his self-destruction. Renowned author Eugene Davidson describes in detail Hitlerrs"s stratagems in reviving morale and undoing the inequitable treaties imposed on Germany after World War I and his shrewd moves to take advantage of the fatal miscalculations of the coalition that had been aligned against the Reich. Once Hitler had brutally improved Germany's desperate state, there followed mortal errors and fateful mistakes of judgment arising from his own inadequacies. Compelling, well-researched, and eminently readable,The Unmaking of Adolf Hitlerstrives to explain how and why Hitler's empire collapsed from his own actions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
1. The Grasp for Power	1	(57)
2. Röhm: The Early Disenchanted	58	(28)
3. The Rising in Austria	86	(18)
4. President and Reichschancellor	104	(19)
5. Occupation of the Rhineland	123	(13)
6. The Saar and Rearmament	136	(18)
7. The Games of Peace	154	(19)
8. The Tarnished Generals: The Flower War	173	(20)
9. Without Firing a Shot	193	(27)
10. Negotiating against the Odds	220	(65)
11. The Agreement	285	(20)
12. The Crumbling of Munich	305	(23)
13. The March into Prague	328	(32)
14. The End of Appeasement	360	(33)
15. The War	393	(28)
16. The Last Bunker	421	(34)
Notes	455	(34)
Bibliography	489	(10)
Index	499