LEADER 04174nam 22005771 450 001 9910453768303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-932234-1 010 $a0-19-932233-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001159460 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25858251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001040185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12490090 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11001609 035 $a(PQKB)10093181 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1561209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1561209 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10796873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL542664 035 $a(OCoLC)863047744 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001159460 100 $a20130314h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBurning the Reichstag $ean investigation into the Third Reich's enduring mystery /$fBenjamin Carter Hett 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (416 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-932232-5 311 $a1-306-11413-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 8 $aA gripping reconstruction of the Reichstag fire, an event that marked the true beginning of the Third Reich, and Hitler's rise to dictatorship.$bIn February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen cabinet posts. Then on February 27th, arson sent the Reichstag, the home and symbol of German democracy, up in flames. Immediately blaming the Communists, Hitler's new government approved a decree that tore the heart out of thedemocratic constitution of the Weimar Republic and cancelled the rule of law. Five thousand people were immediately arrested. The Reichstag fire marked the true beginning of the Third Reich, which ruled for 12 more years. The controversy surrounding the fire's origins has endured for 80.In Burning the Reichstag, Benjamin Hett offers a gripping account of Hitler's rise to dictatorship-one that challenges orthodoxy and recovers the true significance of the part the fire played. At the scene the police arrested 23-year-old Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist stonemason. Though he was initially dismissed abroad as a Nazi tool, post-war historians since the 1950s have largely judged him solely guilty-a lone arsonist exploited by Hitler. Hett's book reopens the case,providing vivid portraits of key figures, including Rudolf Diels, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and the historian Fritz Tobias, whose account of the fire has, until now, been the standard. Making use of a number of new sources and archives, Hett sets the Reichstag fire in a wider context, revealing how andwhy it has remained one of the last mysteries of the Nazi period, and one of the most controversial and contested events in the 20th century. Burning the Reichstag will stand as the landmark work on this subject. 606 $aPolitical culture$zGermany 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical culture 676 $a943.086 700 $aHett$b Benjamin Carter$0769904 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453768303321 996 $aBurning the Reichstag$91924325 997 $aUNINA