CATASTROPHE: 6/8: Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover – Deckle Edge, by Timothy W. Ryback (Author)
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/Takeover-Hitlers-Final-Rise-Power/dp/0593537424
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes. As membership hemorrhaged and financial backers withdrew, the Nazi Party threatened to fracture. Hitler talked of suicide. The New York Times declared he was finished. Yet somehow, in a few brief weeks, he was chancellor of Germany.
In facinating detail and with previously un-accessed archival materials, Timothy W. Ryback tells the remarkable story of Hitler’s dismantling of democracy through democratic process. He provides fresh perspective and insights into Hitler’s personal and professional lives in these months, in all their complexity and uncertainty—backroom deals, unlikely alliances, stunning betrayals, an ill-timed tax audit, and a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. Above all, Ryback details why a wearied Hindenburg, who disdained the “Bohemian corporal,” ultimately decided to appoint Hitler chancellor in January 1933. Within weeks, Germany was no longer a democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor with Timothy Rybak. |
| 0:07.0 | The book is takeover Hitler's final rise to power. |
| 0:09.8 | Again, Hitler has turned back, the Nazis are turned back. |
| 0:13.8 | Teringia, the vote that substitutes for polling |
| 0:18.4 | shows the NSDAP losing 25% of its previous vote in the previous election in November. |
| 0:25.7 | Another humiliation. |
| 0:27.5 | There's one more chance that we go through the winter holidays, Christmas holidays. |
| 0:32.4 | Hitler pretty much with his widowed older sister. holidays, the war. Remember these are these are hustling figures these are not world scale |
| 0:44.4 | monsters. They have simple lives when they're not can conniving with each other. |
| 0:50.3 | It's Christmas time and Hitler doesn't have a family. A little detail he gets a book |
| 0:55.8 | from somebody as a gift. There's no mention of a Christmas tree. Perhaps there is, perhaps |
| 1:00.7 | his sister keeps one for him, but he's a man without a family. |
| 1:04.1 | He's peculiar. |
| 1:05.1 | No psychology here, he's peculiar. |
| 1:07.2 | There's a vote in Lippi, which is a very small state of 160,000 in the middle of January. What is there hope, Tim? Why do they throw |
| 1:15.1 | their resources into Lippi? What's happened? Okay. Their high water mark was 37% in the July elections. |
| 1:27.0 | They take a hit of 2 million votes in the November elections. |
| 1:32.0 | John, you mentioned the Thuringia vote where they in the |
| 1:33.3 | November elections. John, you mentioned the Thuringia vote where they lose 25% again. |
| 1:38.1 | So they are not only are they losing votes. |
| 1:45.0 | There's a break which toss where they're hemorrhaging membership of the party |
| 1:50.0 | and most consequentially, they are millions and millions of rights marks in debt. |
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