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  • Hitler's Compromises

  • Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany
  • Written by: Nathan Stoltzfus
  • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
  • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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Hitler's Compromises

Written by: Nathan Stoltzfus
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing the surprisingly frequent tactical compromises Hitler made in order to preempt hostility and win the German people's complete fealty. As part of his strategy to secure a "1,000-year Reich", Hitler sought to convince the German people to believe in Nazism so they would perpetuate it permanently and actively shun those who were out of step with society. When widespread public dissent occurred at home - which most often happened when policies conflicted with popular traditions or encroached on private life - Hitler made careful calculations and acted strategically to maintain his popular image. Extending from the 1920s to the regime's collapse, this revealing history makes a powerful and original argument that will inspire a major rethinking of Hitler's rule.

©2016 Nathan Stoltzfus (P)2017 Tantor
Ideologies & Doctrines Political Science Germany 20th Century
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"An in-depth examination of the tactical compromises Hitler made in order to consolidate power.... A lucid work of historical argumentation that succeeds in establishing compromise as a crucial instrument in Hitler's political arsenal." ( Kirkus)

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Finally an objective examination of the Third Reic

Finally an examination of the Third Reich that goes beyond the 2 dimensional comic book narrative of "Hitler evil" and actually examines the interplay between the regime and the people. The idea that the National Socialist regime could rely soley on force and dominate a nation of 80 million people against their will is pure fantasy. They obviously had the sanction and support of the vast majority of the people they were governing. The Afterwards is very interesting, in regards to how the protests of the wives of Jewish detainees were both intentionally overlooked and under estimated by historians. It makes one wonder what other pieces of history from that era have been distorted to further a specific narrative...

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