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An American historian explores the
interplay of culture and politics that favored the rise of Hitler in
the city he transformed into the headquarters of the Nazi movement.
Large (History/Montana State Univ.), author of five previous books
about modern German history and editor of another two, is one of the
figures helping to reestablish narrative history as an intellectually
respectable genre. His new book tells the story of Munich as the scene
of Nazism's birth and rise. When Hitler--who had failed to establish
himself as an artist in more..
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| author: | David Clay Large |
| isbn: | 039303836X |
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The name Adolf Hitler will always be linked with Munich. Munich was the
city he came to after leaving Austria as a young man, and where he
began his political career; making his first grab for power. Munich was
the site of the first concentration camp, and Hitler's greatest
diplomatic triumph. Although there are few overt reminders of that era,
this book is historical guide to the sights and addresses of Munich
important to Adolf Hitler, his followers, and his victims. This is the
first and only guide to the Munich that Hitler knew and answers such
questions as; where was the more..
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| author: | Brian Deming, Ted Iliff |
| isbn: | 3922590462 |
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