Episode 135 - Here Come the Nazis

As the Depression got going in Germany, the Nazis were a fringe party with barely any national representation. Long story short, they weren't expected to be big players in Chancellor Bruning's constitutional crisis. But for years the Nazis had been carefully laying the groundwork for bigger ambitions, and after a few couple hiccups, were ready to make it big in the September 1930 elections.    Bibliography for this episode:    Evans, Richard The Coming of the Third Reich Penguin Books, 2003 Peukert, Detlev The Weimar Republic Suhrkamp Verlag am Main, 1987 Kershaw, Ian Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 1998 Toland, John Adolf Hitler, Volume 1 Doubleday & Company Inc 1976 Range, Peter Ross The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power Little, Brown and Company 2020 Hett, Benjamin Carter The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic St. Martin's Press 2018   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]