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TAKEOVER - TIMOTHY W RYBACK GEBUNDEN

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library   a dramatic recounting
of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power  when the Nazi leader teetered
between triumph and ruin   In the summer of 1932  the Weimar Republic was on the verge of
collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National
Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg  an aging war hero and avowed monarchist 
was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections
offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But
instead  the Nazis lost two million votes. As membership hemorrhaged and financial backers
withdrew  the Nazi Party threatened to fracture. Hitler talked of suicide. The New York Times
declared he was finished. Yet somehow  in a few brief weeks  he was chancellor of Germany.   In
fascinating detail and with previously un-accessed archival materials  Timothy W. Ryback tells
the remarkable story of Hitler’s dismantling of democracy through democratic process. He
provides fresh perspective and insights into Hitler’s personal and professional lives in these
months  in all their complexity and uncertainty—backroom deals  unlikely alliances  stunning
betrayals  an ill-timed tax audit  and a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. Above
all  Ryback details why a wearied Hindenburg  who disdained the “Bohemian corporal ” ultimately
decided to appoint Hitler chancellor in January 1933. Within weeks  Germany was no longer a
democracy.

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