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53 days how Hitler dismantled a democracy

"From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks. On September 25, 1930, Adolf Hitler appeared before Germany's Supreme Court and outlined his plans to destroy the Weimar Republic th...

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Main Author: Ryback, Timothy W. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026.
Edition:First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945
Heads of state > Germany.
Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933.
Authoritarianism > Germany > 20th century.
Democracy > Germany > 20th century.
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520 |a "From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks. On September 25, 1930, Adolf Hitler appeared before Germany's Supreme Court and outlined his plans to destroy the Weimar Republic through democratic process. The judge asked, "So, only through constitutional means?" Hitler replied, "Jawohl!" Barely two years later, on January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed the fifteenth chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Within 53 days of that date, he had effected one of the most astonishing transformations in modern democracy, using the provisions of the Constitution to turn a democratic republic into an authoritarian state. Drawing from his 800-page political playbook, Mein Kampf, Hitler banned or neutered the print press and radio; purged the civil service and installed party loyalists; suspended civil liberties; compromised the courts; imposed Reich government control over the country's seventeen federated states; slapped draconian tariffs on trading partners; co-opted, imprisoned, or drove political opponents into exile; assumed control over the central bank; and then compelled the Reichstag, the country's legislative body, to pass an Enabling Act granting Hitler dictatorial power. Charting the key events of those dramatic days in taut and compelling prose, Timothy W. Ryback evokes the raw political power and increasing inevitability of Hitler's state capture, amid heroic efforts by journalists and social democrats to save the republic, underscoring the alarming observation in Joseph Goebbels' collected essays: "The big joke on democracy is that it provides its mortal enemies with the means to its own destruction." "-- Provided by publisher. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Narva, Estonia: 27 March 2028 -- Palais des Nations, Geneva: Three years earlier -- Europe and the United States: A wind of change -- Russia: A thaw in Moscow? -- Ukraine: A country in chaos -- Brussels: Limited defence capabilities -- Moscow: Strategy -- Kidal, Mali: 2 February 2028: The game is on -- Brussels: 5 February 2028: Europe takes the bait -- South China Sea: 28 February 2028: Help from an ally -- Seattle: 27 March 2028, 01:00 UTC -- Berlin: 27 March 2028, 02:20 UTC -- Berlin: 27 March 2028, 06:30 UTC -- Moscow: 27 March 2028, 07:00 UTC -- NATO Headquarters, Brussels: 27 March 2028, 12:00 UTC -- The White House, Washington, DC: 27 March 2028, 12:15 UTC -- 80° 49' 35.2" N, 66° 27' 12.5" W: 28 March 2028, 10:27 UTC 84 -- NATO Headquarters, Brussels: 28 March 2028, 14:00 UTC -- Rzhev, Russia: 29 March 2028, 07:00 UTC -- Moscow and Beijing: 30 March 2028: A new centre -- Afterword. 
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