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Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaws Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitlers startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation, from Czechoslovakia to Poland; addressing crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism; exploring the Holocaust and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively; and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker, Kershaw allows us as never before to understand Hitlers motivation and impact. Magisterial ...anyone who wishes to understand the third reich must read Kershaw, for no on has done more to lay bare Hitlers morbid psyche. (Niall Ferguson, Sunday Telegraph). An achievement of the very highest order ...a marvellous book. (Michael Burleigh, Financial Times). No previous biographer has examined Hitlers devilishness in Kershaws detail ...his book is so comprehensive, so richly documented and so judicious that it will not soon be superseded. (Daniel Johnson, Daily Telegraph). Ian Kershaws other books include Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, Making Friends with Hitler, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-4 and The End: Hitlers Germany, 1944-45. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize

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HITLER 19361945

Ian Kershaw has long been recognized as the world expert on Adolf Hitlers role in the Third Reich this book is not likely to be bettered in the foreseeable future Brendan Simms, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Masterly As readable and gripping as the first, it explains the personality of Hitler more convincingly than anything else Ive read and at the same time sets out in brilliant detail what happened to Germany as a whole during the Second World War Miriam Gross, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year

Rich in material, balanced, perceptive, humane and very well written altogether a magnificent achievement David Blackbourn, London Review of Books

There is not a better and more complete biography of Hitler and his epoch and its hard to imagine that it could soon be superseded Alexander Gallus, Rheinischer Merkur

Monumental This massive, extensively researched, extraordinarily balanced, and remarkably judicious study is likely to remain the definitive biography for a long time to come Omer Bartov, New Republic

This second volume of Ian Kershaws magnum opus is even more fascinating than its predecessor, Hubris Antony Beevor, Independent, Books of the Year

It is a masterly work; comprehensive, balanced, authoritative, and above all readable. If there is one book that explains Hitlers success in securing and maintaining power, and in consequence the causes of the Second World War, this is it Sir Michael Howard, The Times Literary Supplement, International Books of the Year

A masterpiece which leaves all previous Hitler biographies in the shade Enrico Syring, Das Parlament

Compared to the many others that came earlier, even the important and illuminating works by Alan Bullock and Joachim Fest, Kershaws large-scale study is more probing, more judicious, more authoritative in its rich detail and yet more commanding in its mastery of the horrific narrative Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune

Enthralling and terrifying this is classic narrative history at its best, written with verve and passion David Marquand, New Statesman, Books of the Year

An impressive, detailed, and sobering story Gordon A. Craig, New York Review of Books

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the worlds leading authorities on Hitler. He was the historical adviser to the two BBC series The Nazis: A Warning from History and War of the Century. He is also the author of The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 193345 and The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation; the editor of Weimar: Why Did German Democracy Fail? and Hitler: A Profile in Power; and co-editor, with Moshe Lewin, of Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Hitler 18891936: Hubris was shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Biography Award and the first Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Hitler 19361945: Nemesis was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award, and was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year and the Wolfson Literary Award for History for 2000.

HITLER

193645: NEMESIS

Ian Kershaw

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Copyright Ian Kershaw, 2000
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ISBN: 978-0-14-192581-3

CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be glad to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention. (Photographic acknowledgements are given in brackets.)

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PREFACE

The first part of this study, Hitler, 18891936: Hubris, tried to show how the people of a highly cultured, economically advanced, modern state could allow into power and entrust their fate to a political outsider with few, if any, special talents beyond undoubted skills as a demagogue and propagandist.

By the time his Chancellorship was devised through the intrigues of influential individuals close to Reich President von Hindenburg, Hitler had been able in free elections to garner the votes of no more than a good third of the German electorate. Another third on the Left stood implacably opposed, though internally in disarray. The remainder were often sceptical, expectant, hesitant, and uncertain. By the end of the first volume we had traced the consolidation of Hitlers power to the point where it had become well-nigh absolute. Internal opposition had been crushed. The doubters had been largely won over by the scale of an internal rebuilding and external reassertion of strength which, almost beyond imagination, had restored much of the lost national pride and sense of humiliation left behind after the First World War. Authoritarianism was seen by most as a blessing; repression of those politically out of step, disliked ethnic minorities, or social misfits approved of as a small price for what appeared to be a national rebirth. While the adulation of Hitler among the masses had grown ever stronger, and opposition had been crushed and rendered inconsequential, powerful forces in the army, the landed aristocracy, industry, and high ranks of the civil service had thrown their weight behind the regime. Whatever its negative aspects, it was seen to offer them much in advancing their own interests.

Hitler, by the time the first volume drew to a close with the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, enjoyed the support of the overwhelming mass of the German people even most of those who had not voted for him before he became Chancellor. From the depths of national degradation, most Germans were more than content to share the new-found national pride. The sense that Germany was well on its way to becoming the dominant power in Europe was widespread. Hitlers own profound sense of personal degradation, felt in his Vienna years, had long since been supplanted by a gathering sense of political mission that of Germanys redeemer from chaos and champion against the dark and menacing forces challenging the nations very existence. By 1936, his narcissistic self-glorification had swollen immeasurably under the impact of the near-deification projected upon him by his followers. By this time, he thought himself infallible; his self-image had reached the stage of outright hubris.

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