In Hitler's Munich

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his antisemitic ideas. Michael Brenner provides a gripping account of how Bavaria's capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.In an electrifying narrative that takes readers from Hitler's return to Munich following the armistice to his calamitous Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Brenner demonstrates why the city's transformation is crucial for understanding the Nazi era and the tragedy of the Holocaust. Brenner describes how Hitler and his followers terrorized Munich's Jews and were aided by politicians, judges, police, and ordinary residents. He shows how the city's Jews responded to the antisemitic backlash in many different ways-by declaring their loyalty to the state, by avoiding public life, or by abandoning the city altogether.Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown documents, In Hitler's Munich reveals the untold story of how a once-cosmopolitan city became, in the words of Thomas Mann, "the city of Hitler."

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Brenner, Brenner Michael
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeremiah Riemer (Traduzione), Riemer Jeremiah (Traduzione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 19.11.2024
• Categoria: Saggistica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni
• EAN: 9780691205403
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20540-3
• Numero di pagine: 392
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.5 x 23 x 2.5 cm
• Categorie: Bertolt Brecht, Konrad Adenauer, Magnus Hirschfeld, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Nachrichten, European History, Adolf Hitler, Freikorps, Pogrom, Mein Kampf, Munich, Kurt Eisner, Ernst Toller, Gustav Landauer, Kurt Tucholsky, Lion Feuchtwanger, HISTORY / Jewish, Hermann Cohen, Simplicissimus, Gershom Scholem, Rudolf Hilferding, Heinrich von Treitschke, Herbert Marcuse, Fascism & Nazism, Walther Rathenau, Judaism, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Weininger, Theodor Lessing, Karl Liebknecht, Otto Strasser, Dietrich Eckart, Jews, Friedrich Meinecke, pathogen, Antisemitism, Karl Kautsky, Julius Streicher, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Joseph Wirth, Nazi Party, Otto von Lossow, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Weimar Republic, Zionism, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Alfred Wiener, Herschel Grynszpan, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Nazism, Pope Pius XII, Dreyfus Affair, Conservative Judaism, Antisemitism (authors), Jewish Bolshevism, On Religion, Stab-in-the-back myth, The Fatherland, Kapp Putsch, Ernst Kantorowicz, Fatherland (novel), The Jewish Question, Christianity and antisemitism, Landsberg Prison, Anton Drexler, blood libel, Thule Society, Karl Hass, The Rothschilds (musical), Felix Fechenbach, Oranienburg concentration camp, German Christians, The Masses, German Fatherland Party, New antisemitism, Wilhelm Frick, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Beer Hall Putsch