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  • The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

  • By: Frank McDonough
  • Narrated by: Paul McGann
  • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

By: Frank McDonough
Narrated by: Paul McGann
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The first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending on Germany's comprehensive military defeat of Poland in 1939

On January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months, he had installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorizing the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life. He embarked on a crash program of militaristic Keynesianism, reviving the economy and achieving full employment through massive public works, vast armaments spending, and the cancellations of foreign debts. After the grim years of the Great Depression, Germany seemed to have been reborn as a brutal and determined European power.

Over the course of the years from 1933 to 1939, Hitler won over most of the population to his vision of a renewed Reich. In these years of domestic triumph, cunning maneuvers, pitting neighboring powers against each other and biding his time, we see Hitler preparing for the moment that would realize his ambition. But what drove Hitler's success was also to be the fatal flaw of his regime: a relentless belief in war as the motor of greatness, a dream of vast conquests in Eastern Europe, and an astonishingly fanatical racism.

In The Hitler Years, Frank McDonough charts the rise and fall of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand. The first volume, Triumph, ends after Germany's comprehensive military defeat of Poland in 1939.

©2021 Frank McDonough (P)2021 Recorded Books
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Exceptionally informative and detailed telling of Hitler’s rise in 1933-1939

I particularly liked that the story is told chronologically by the year. I also liked the detail with which the events are related. I learned a lot that I have never heard before.

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