Episode 140 - Bonfire of Weimar

Hitler coming to power in Germany was bad enough, but a marked turn in the nation's trajectory came after the Reichstag fire. That incident, so random but also so impactful that it would spawn theories that it was a false flag by the Nazis, was the moment where the seizure of power went into overdrive. Nothing would ever be the same after it. 

 

1. Evans, Richard The Coming of the Third Reich Penguin Books, 2003
2. Kershaw, Ian Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 1998
3. Toland, John Adolf Hitler, Volume 1 Doubleday & Company Inc 1976
4. Range, Peter Ross The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power Little, Brown and Company 2020
5. Hett, Benjamin Carter The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic St. Martin's Press 2018
6. Barth, Rudiger and Hauke Friederichs The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic Pegasus Books 2021

 

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