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November 1937: Adolf Hitlers politischen Gegenspielern wird die zunehmende Bedrohung durch das NS-Regime bewusst. In den Hinterzimmern der Macht treffen Staatsmänner in Berlin, London, Washington und Moskau weitreichende Entscheidungen, die letztlich zum Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs führen und seinen Verlauf maßgeblich vorzeichnen. Benjamin Carter Hett, der bisher unerschlossene Quellen durchforstet hat, zeichnet genau nach, welche Ereignis...

A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War-a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in eastern Europe. Some generals are unnerved by the Führer's grandiose plan, but these dissenters are silenced one by...

Hans Litten, a courageous German-Jewish lawyer who defended civil rights in the Weimar Republic, was one of the only people to ever cross-examine Hitler on the witness stand, and the only one to reduce him to helpless rage. This book is a dramatic account of that trial, and the gripping and definitive story of a fascinating figure-forgotten today-of anti-Nazi resistance.

Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top military and diplomatic advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in eastern Europe. Some old-guard conservatives are unnerved by Hitler's grandiose plan, but they are silenced one by one, setting in motion events that will culminate in the most calamitous war in human history.Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed his...

Am 20. Juli 1954 taucht der Präsident des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz in Ost-Berlin auf. Siebzehn Monate später kehrt Otto John in den Westen zurück und wird sofort als Überläufer verhaftet. Bis heute ist ungeklärt, ob John freiwillig in die DDR gegangen ist und dort Geheimnisverrat begangen hat. Benjamin Hett und Michael Wala schreiben die erste Biographie eines Mannes, der im Nationalsozialismus Teil des Widerstands war und in der Nach...

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own...

Benjamin Carter Hett is a former trial lawyer and a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Death in the Tiergarten, Crossing Hitler, winner of the Fraenkel Prize, and Burning the Reichstag.

This account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and rise of the Nazi party places this event in a global context, addressing the complacencies of the cosmopolitan liberal democracy to which Nazism emerged.

Brilliant. A timely reminder of the fragility of democracy and the dangers of extreme nationalism.' Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps'Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing.' The Times'In this post-truth, alternative-facts American moment, The Death of Democracy is essential reading.' Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland'An outstanding accomplishment.' Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland A revelatory...

A dramatic new account of the Reichstag fire and the origins of the Nazi rise to power

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From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square ringed by bleak slums, to Moabit, site of the city's most feared prison, this book illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late imperial Germany. Hett explores the lawyers, judges, jurors, thieves, pimps, and murderers who inhabited this world and examines how the law reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly changing city.