Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 (213 page)

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Hitler and Eva Braun on the Obersalzberg, autumn 1938

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Group photo from the Berghof New Year’s Eve party in 1938. Hitler is in the front row with Eva Braun to his left.

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Defaced windows of Jewish-owned businesses in Berlin, June 1938

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Onlookers watch as the Old Synagogue in Essen burns, 9 November 1938

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Mussolini in Berlin during his state visit, 27 September 1937

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Hitler speaks from the balcony of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, 15 March 1938.

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Hitler at the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Breslau, 31 July 1938

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Czech president Emil Hácha with Hitler in his office at the New Reich Chancellery, 15 March 1939

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A military parade on Berlin’s new East–West Axis in honour of Hitler’s fiftieth birthday, 20 April 1939

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Hermann Göring congratulates Hitler in the name of the assembled Nazi leaders on his fiftieth birthday.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 The Young Hitler

2 The Vienna Years

3 The Experience of War

4 The Leap into Politics

5 The King of Munich

6 Putsch and Prosecution

7 Landsberg Prison and Mein Kampf

8 Führer on Standby

9 Dark Star Rising

10 Hitler and Women

11 Bids and Bluffs

12 Month of Destiny: January 1933

13 Hitler as Human Being

14 Totalitarian Revolution

15 Eviscerating Versailles

16 Cult and Community

17 Dictatorship by Division, Architecture of Intimidation

18 The Berghof Society and the Führer’s Mistress

19 Hitler and the Churches

20 Prelude to Genocide

21 The Way to War

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Illustrations