What is in the book
He was never elected to the office he used to destroy a democracy. He was handed it.
In January 1933 a party that had just lost seats was invited into government by politicians who believed they could control its leader. Eight weeks later the Reichstag voted its own powers away, and the machinery of a modern European state was turned over to a man who had failed at almost everything he had tried.
- Why the Nazis never won a free majority, and why it did not matter
- How a dictatorship was assembled out of legal votes and emergency decrees
- The bureaucratic process that turned mass murder into paperwork and timetables
- What the rest of the world was doing while Germany rearmed in plain sight
- How the borders and the reckoning of 1945 still shape the map and the law today
This is not a book about a monster who came from nowhere. It is an account of the ordinary politics, ordinary institutions and ordinary people that made him possible, written to be read in one sitting and remembered longer than that.
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