This wellillustrated highly accessible book at last gives general readers andstudents a compact yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelveyears o... » 

This wellillustrated highly accessible book at last gives general readers andstudents a compact yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelveyears of the Third Reich from political takeover of January 30 1933 to theGerman capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave reviews inGermany A Concise History of the Third Reich describes the establishment ofthe totalitarian dictatorship the domestic and foreign politics of the regimeeveryday life and terror in National Socialist Germany the events leading toWorld War II and the war itself various forms of resistance against Hitlerand the Holocaust. The books extensive illustrations are thoroughly treated asdocuments that illuminate the visual power of Nazi ideology. «