REFRESHER COURSE ON WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE 1930S IN THE LAND OF BACH AND MOZART: 2/8: Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover – Deckle Edge, by Timothy W. Ryback (Author)
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🗓️ 15 June 2025
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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.
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| 1:09.0 | I'm John Batchel, visiting with Timothy Ryback, the author of the new book, Takeover, Hitler's final rise to power. |
| 1:11.1 | This is August 32 to January 33, the players. |
| 1:17.1 | We begin with Hitler's side of the fence. |
| 1:20.7 | Hitler, we know, a man named Gregor Strasser, whom has put together the NSDAP, carefully managed it like a managing editor manages |
| 1:31.7 | a newspaper. |
| 1:32.7 | What do we need to know about Strasser at this moment? |
| 1:35.3 | He's not in the room with Hitler when he's being challenged by Hindenburg. |
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