Conjuring Hitler : how Britain and America made the Third Reich / / Guido Giacomo Preparata

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824475703321
• Autore: Preparata Guido Giacomo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-84964-225-7; 1-281-75026-3; 9786611750268; 1-4356-6149-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 337.43041
• Soggetti: National socialism; Great Britain Foreign economic relations Germany; United States Foreign economic relations Germany; Germany Foreign economic relations Great Britain; Germany Foreign economic relations United States
• 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: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace. Laying Siege to Germany with World War I, 1900 - 18 -- The Second Reich: The Tragedy of an Imperial Upstart -- The Heartland, the Crescent and the Nightmare of British Geopolitics -- The Blood of the Romanovs and the Encirclement of Germany -- The 'Useful Idiots' of Sarajevo -- Besieging Germany -- Conjuring Lenin -- The Last Days of America: from Republic to Truculent Empire -- 2. The Veblenian Prophecy. From the Councils to Versailles by Way of Russian Fratricide, 1919 - 20 -- The Impossible Revolution -- Inducting Hitler into the Mother Lodge -- The Allied Betrayal of the Russian Whites -- The Peace Treaty That Was Too Harsh -- Dreaming of Hitler and Deciphering Versailles -- 3. The Meltdown and the Geopolitical Correctness of Mein Kampf Between the Kapp and the Beerhall Putsch, 1920 - 23 -- Erzberger: One Man Alone against the Inflation -- Hiring Trebitsch- Lincoln to Foil the Kapp Putsch -- Rathenau, The Reluctant Victim of the Russo- German Pact -- The Hyperinflationary Purge of 1923 -- The Maiden Storm of the ; Nazi Fundamentalists -- 4. 'Death on the Installment Plan' Whereby Governor Norman Came to Pace the Damnation of Europe, 1924 - 33 -- The Banking 'Grid' and the Rules of the Gold Game -- Montagu Norman and the 'Nationalization' of the Bank -- The Dawes Bailout and the Hierodule Schacht -- I. G. Farben and Germany's First Five- Year Plan -- Britain's Grand Charade to Crash the New Gold Standard -- The Last Scheme of Kurt von Schleicher and the End of Weimar -- 5. The Reich on the Marble Cliffs. Fire, Legerdemain and Mummery all the Way to Barbarossa, 1933 - 41 -- Nazi Coup d'Etat -- Money Magic, Work Creation and Foreign Aid -- A British Masquerade to Entrap the Germans Anew -- A Soviet Tale of Madness and Sacrifice -- Fake War in the West, True Push in the East.; 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.