The Third Reich in Power

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war.

By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If this could happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Only the mos...

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war.

By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If this could happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Only the most fervent Nazi party loyalists would have predicted how radical the transformation ahead would be.

In The Third Reich in Power , Richard J. Evans tells the story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life, from literature, culture, and the arts to religion, education, and science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare Germany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run.

Those who were seen as unfit to be counted among the German people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. The Nazi regime took more and more radical measures against the racially "unfit," including Germany's Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals. After six years of foreign policy brinkmanship that took the Nazi regime from success to success, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war he saw as its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939. The war he unleashed was to plunge the world into a maelstrom of genocide and destruction. The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was brought to the edge of that terrible abyss. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

理查德·J. 埃文斯，英国历史学家，以19、20世纪德国史，尤其是第三帝国的研究享誉学界。曾任剑桥大学钦定历史学讲座教授、剑桥大学沃尔夫森学院院长。曾被授予汉堡艺术与科学奖，并凭学术成就获封爵士。著有《企鹅欧洲史·竞逐权力：1815—1914》《历史与记忆中的第三帝国》等18本著作，其中《死于汉堡》获沃尔夫森历史奖。

哲理庐，清华大学理学学士，比利时根特大学哲学博士，有广泛的欧美留学和研究经历。主要研究方向是科学史、科学的逻辑（包括演化生物学、社会科学和概率论）、20世纪初期哲学史以及文学批评。