HITLER'S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

After Hitler's appointment as chancellor, the Nazis moved with brutality to solidify a new political order. Fritzsche offers a close examination of these few decisive months--the elections and mass arrests, the gunfire and bonfires, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts--to understand the terrifying power the National Socialists exerted over ordinary Germans.