THE NAZI PARTY 1919 - 1945

A Complete History

by Dietrich Orlow

ISBN#978-929631-57-5 • Paperback

$ 26.00

The only existing complete history of the Nazi Party from 1919, when Adolf Hitler took control of a small right-wing worker’s political association mostly made up of unemployed lower middle class veterans, to the giant political party known as the NSDAP that ruled Germany, intolerant of any competition from 1933 to 1945. Orlow’s book explains the mechanism and the methods, including the anti-Semitic pogroms such as Kristallnacht,  which allowed the Nazis to seize and hold on to absolute power.

“The best history of National Socialism that has yet been written…. Orlow offers very substantial answers to the question of how and why Hitler gained and [practically uncontested] kept his unique position within a movement consisting of so many different elements and ambitions.”< Prof. Karl Dietrich Bracher

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;“A welcome and unique treatment, based on original source material.  In studying the inner structure of the party [Orlow] … shows convincingly how its successes at the polls, the process of “Gleichschaltung,” and the preparation of the take-over of power in 1933 were made possible by the unique combination of [the] myth-figure Hitler and the organizational zeal and ability of his followers.”CHOICE

Dietrich Orlow was for many years a distinguished professor of history at Boston College. He is now retired and lives in Washington State.