Episode 137 - Into the Abyss, Part I

With the economy destroyed and the specter of privation and revolution haunting Germany, Hitler's political star was ascendant. Despite not being able to clench a majority of votes or convince (or want) anyone else to work with the Nazis, Hitler was an inescapable part of the nation's politics. Which meant that the conservative establishment bent on dissolving the country's democracy would be forced little by little to work with the manic upstart.    Bibliography for this episode:    Evans, Richard The Coming of the Third Reich Penguin Books, 2003 Kershaw, Ian Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 1998 Toland, John Adolf Hitler, Volume 1 Doubleday & Company Inc 1976 Range, Peter Ross The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power Little, Brown and Company 2020 Hett, Benjamin Carter The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic St. Martin's Press 2018   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]