Als Hitler den Ersten Weltkrieg gewann

The most important question about National Socialism to this day is: How could a violent splinter party become a devastating mass movement that brought Adolf Hitler to power in just a few years? What factors contributed to the success of the Nazis? Gerd Krumeich, drawing from his decades-long research on the First World War and its consequences, embarks once again on a quest for answers. Based on contemporary sources and research literature, he concludes that the significance of the lost First World War in Nazi propaganda and Hitler's speeches has been greatly underestimated in relation to the attractiveness of the NSDAP and the radicalization of a murderous anti-Semitism, often marginalized by the term "stab-in-the-back legend." Krumeich presents a dense and intensively written reinterpretation of the relationship between Hitler and the Germans, extending beyond the usual temporal boundary of 1933. This results in a new history of the rise of National Socialism from its beginnings to the onset of the Second World War.