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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453768303321

Autore

Hett Benjamin Carter

Titolo

Burning the Reichstag : an investigation into the Third Reich's enduring mystery / / Benjamin Carter Hett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-19-932234-1

0-19-932233-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 pages)

Disciplina

943.086

Soggetti

Political culture - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Satanic nose": Rudolf Diels -- "SA + me": Joseph Goebbels -- "What just went on here is an absolute outrage": rumors -- "Those who know nothing are better off": the investigation -- Rival narratives: the propaganda battle -- "Stand up, van der Lubbe!": the trial and what followed -- The fire at Nuremberg: the prosecutors' tale -- "Persil letters": the gestapists' tale -- "The feared one": Fritz Tobias and his "clients" -- "Snow from yesterday": blackmail and the Institute for Contemporary History -- Conclusion: evidence and self-evidence.

Sommario/riassunto

A gripping reconstruction of the Reichstag fire, an event that marked the true beginning of the Third Reich, and Hitler's rise to dictatorship.