Contents List of Illustrations Preface List of Key Abbreviations
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PART ONE. THE BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM 1. The Munich Years and the Legacy of the War
1. Guidelines of the German Workers’ Party (1919) 2. Adolf Hitler, Letter to Adolf Gemlich (1919) 3. Wilfrid Bade, The Founding of the Party in 1920 (1933) 4. Dietrich Eckart, Jewishness in and around Us (1919) 5. The Program of the German Workers’ Party: The Twenty-Five Points (1920) 6. Gottfried Feder, Manifesto for Breaking the Bondage of Interest (1919) 7. Otto Gmelin, Prohn Fights for His People (1933) 8. Heinrich Lersch, The German Soldier (1939) 9. Hanns Johst, Schlageter (1933) 10. Hans Hinkel, One of a Hundred Thousand (1937) 11. Wilfrid Bade, The Hitler Trial (1933) 12. Wilfrid Bade, The SA Conquers Berlin: A Documentary Report (1933) 13. Fritz Oerter, Our Speakers in the Anti-Marxist Struggle: The Balance of an Election Year (1932) 14. Hermann Führbach, How I Became a National Socialist (1934) 2. Nazism in Power: 1933
15. Walter Frank, On the History of National Socialism (1939) 16. Oswald Spengler, The White World Revolution (1933) 17. Hermann Göring, Radio Address: 30 January 1933 18. Joseph Goebbels, Day of Potsdam: 22 March 1933 19. Erich Ebermayer, My Day of Potsdam: Diary Entry (1933) 20. Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of Volk and State (1933) 21. Anonymous, The Reichstag Fire: Declaration of Martial Law? (1933) 22. Otto Wels, Speech against the Passage of the Enabling Act (1933) 23. Law to Remedy the State of Emergency of Volk and Reich (1933) 24. Law for the Restoration of Professional Civil Service (1933) 25. Adolf Hitler, Speech to Commemorate National Labor Day (1933) 26. Das Schwarze Korps, Second-Class Comrades? (1936) 27. Carl Schmitt, State, Movement, Volk: The Tripartite Division of Political Unity (1933)
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