The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Posted on 05 October 2018 by William L. Shirer

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years It lasted only 12 But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour by hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters all the vast paperwork behind Hitler s drive to conquer the world.The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany it is a classic work.The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war from Germany s early successes to her eventual defeat is must reading New Download The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich author William L. Shirer For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Well, I did it After two years, I have finally finished this beast The first 600 or so pages are pretty slow, but it flies after thatWe all know the story a misanthropic, racist, vegetarian, megalomaniac failed artist writes a book that taps into age old German prejudices, seizes power, and embarks on a quest for European domination In the process he starts the biggest war in history leading to the deaths of tens of millions of people, subjugates about a dozen other countries, and systema Well, I did it After two years, I have finally finished this beast The first 600 or so pages are pretty slow, but it flies after thatWe all know the story a misanthropic, racist, vegetarian, megalomaniac failed artist writes a book that taps into age old German prejudices, seizes power, and embarks on a quest for European domination In the process he starts the biggest war in history leading to the deaths of tens of millions of people, subjugates about a dozen other countries, and systematically exterminates the majority of European Jewry The Thousand Year Reich only lasted a total of 12 years, 4 months, ...Three years ago I implemented a personal tradition to read a Monster Classic each year This is my term, referring to a piece of writing that is great in reputation and girth The how and when of it is to begin the Monster mid summer and read it in fits and starts over the course of several months, with a goal of finishing before the end of the year The why of it isn t so simple Most avid readers I know have daunting lists of books they want to or feel they should read I m no different, bu Three years ago I implemented a personal tradition to read a Monster Classic eac...Darkness You boil this book down, strip it to the foundations, and what the reader finds is darkness of the human soul Bred in the alleyways and gutters of Vienna before the first World War, this was the angry and hateful opposite of God s shining light, the ancient shadows that live in the basement of our souls, given life and expression on the palette of a failed artist Shirer s scholarly, exhaustive masterpiece paints the portrait of the Third Reich from its beginnings in the back rooms an Darkness You boil this book down, strip it to the foundations, and what the reader finds is darkness of the human soul Bred in the alleyways and gutters of Vienna before the first World War, this was the angry and hateful opposite of God s shining light, the ancient shadows that live in the basement of our souls, given life and expression on the palette of a failed artist Shirer s scholarly, exhaustive masterpiece paints the portrait of the Third Reic...Whew After six months of exhilarating yet exhausting reading, I have finally managed to finish this massive tome William L Shirer s definitive account of the rise and fall of the Third Reich under the evil and mad genius, the warlord Hitler Hitler expected that the Reich will last for a thousand years in reality, it lasted just over 12 years In those twelve, the Fuehrer managed to create hell on earth for the people whom he ruled over as well as in those areas which he conquered the war Whew After six months of exhilarating yet exhausting reading, I have finally managed to finish this massive tome William L Shirer s definitive account of the rise and fall of the Third Reich under the evil and mad genius, the warlord Hitler Hitler expected that the Reich will last for a thousand years in reality, it lasted just over 12 years In those twelve, the Fuehrer managed to create hell on earth for the people whom he ruled over as well as in those areas which he conquered...This was the first, really serious grownup book I ever read.My sole brother being almost eight years younger and no cousins being in the States, I was virtually an only child, condemned to the weekly dinner parties of my parents and paternal grandparents and their friends, most of them held elsewhere than our own home At one particularly excruciatingly boring party held at Great Aunt Synnove s I was scanning the magazines and bookshelves for something to occupy the time Being ten, the great sw This...The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany, William L Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany is a book by William L Shirer chronicling the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in 1945 It was first published in 1960, by Simon Schuster in the United States, where it won a National Book Award It was a bestseller in both the United States and Europe, and a critical success outsid The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany, William L Shirer The Ri...I went into this believing I had a well grounded understanding of Prussian history and a basis of the Hitler regime Ummm this book is everything I don t know.I feel way over my head There are so many layers to peel like some history containing onion Shirer wrote an entire college course worth of information I regret that I will not retain it all An impressive collection of memories and experience, we should feel so privileged to have this thorough documentation of one of the most horrific e I went into this believing I had a well grounded understanding of Prussian history and a basis of the Hitler regi...I have a very strong feeling of enthusiasm and at the same time of aversion for this book, which I read when I was 16 William Shirer wrote a no holds barred account of the rise of Adolf Hitler from the perspective of a fanatical in the full sense of the word opponent of everything Hitler stood for Shirer was also a journalist writing as though he were a historian, so his writing reads easily and persuasively but is not necessarily a font of historical accuracy Whatever on...Listened to as an Audible audiobook.A very detailed history of the entity of the Third Reich It is not a biography of Hitler or a war history, but a comprehensive study of the entire organization Shirer was witness to many events as a reporter and uses original source material The resis...The detail with which this book deals with the Third Reich and the unspeakable evil that was Hitler s Germany is almost too much to take Some of the discriptions, particularly towards the end of medical experimentation, are simply too shocking and too challenging to read in one sitting If you need to be reminded of just how evil the bastards in charge of Germany in the 30s and 40s really were then this is the book you need to read Like I said, the detail is mind blowing the story of this The detail with which this book deals with the Third Reich and the unspeakable evil that was Hitler s Germany is almost too much to take Some of the discriptions, particularly towards the end of medical experimentation, are simply too shocking and too challenging to read in one sitting If you need to be reminded of just how evil the bastards in charge of Germany in the 30s and 40s really were then this is the book you need to read Like I said, the detail is mind blowing the story of this period of...

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05 October 2018

William L. Shirer