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Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich

Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:David Clay LargePublish date:1996-10-01Pages:436
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393038361ISBN-10:039303836XUPC:9780393038361Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, ModernBook Topic:Germany, 20th CenturySize:9.57 x 6.42 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.7218Product ID:SCTCPS762E
Munich was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultural shrine of the Third Reich. In exploring the question of why Nazism flourished in the 'Athens of the Isar', David Clay Large has written a compelling account of the cultural roots of the Nazi movement, allowing us to see that the conventional explanations for the movement's rise are not enough. Large's account begins in Munich's 'golden age', four decades before World War I, when the city's artists and writers produced some of the outstanding work of the modernist spirit. He sees a dark side to the city, a protofascist cultural heritage that would tie Adolf Hitler's movement to its soul. Large prowls his volatile world of seamy basement meeting places, finding that attacks on modernity and liberalism flourished, along with virulent anti-Semitism and German nationalism. From the violent experience of the Munich Soviet, through Hitler's failed Beer-Hall Putsch of 1923 and on to his appointment as German chancellor in 1933, Large unfurls a narrative full of insight and implication.
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393038361ISBN-10:039303836XUPC:9780393038361Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, ModernBook Topic:Germany, 20th CenturySize:9.57 x 6.42 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.7218Product ID:SCTCPS762E
Large, David Clay: - David Clay Large is a professor at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, U.C. Berkeley. A specialist on the history of Modern Europe, especially Germany and Austria, Large is the author of ten books including Berlin, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich, and Nazi Games.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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