HITLER'S FOREIGN POLICY 1933-1939

The Road to World War II
Revised edition with a new introduction
by Gerhard L. Weinberg

ISBN#978-1-929631-91-9 • First Complete Paperback Edition

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FIRST COMPLETE PAPERBACK EDITION

Finally available in a single volume, the masterful study of Hitler’s foreign policy and the true origins of the Second World War by the world’s top specialist in history of Nazi Germany and World War II.

Written over the course of many years and previously available only in two volumes, this complete and updated edition is now being published in a single affordable volume for the first time.

“…the course of German foreign policy provides the obvious organizing principle for any account of the origins of World War II. This is not to assert that no other power or other factor bears any substantial share of the responsibility for the outbreak of that war or the developments leading up to it but rather to suggest that a complex question is perhaps best studied by examining its core.

The years from the beginning of 1933 to the end of 1936 saw a diplomatic revolution in Europe. From a barely accepted equal on the European stage, Germany became the dominant power on the Continent. With the remilitarization of the Rhine and, the stalemate in the Spanish civil war, the forming of the Axis, and the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact, this phase was completed. The diplomatic initiative in the world belonged to Germany and its partners. Germany’s determination for war became the central issue in world diplomacy.”

Gerhard L. Weinberg

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“Surely the definitive study of its subject.”
    Lucy S. Dawidowicz –Commentary

“An excellent and useful book.”
    R.A.C. Parker–Queens College Oxford

"Plainly and simply a superb piece of research within the best traditions of American scholarship, … this is a beautifully connected account which brings the entire period into focus."
    Louis L. Snyder –City College CUNY

“Weinberg combines both long familiarity with the source materials for his study, which include captures German foreign office documents, with a keen ability to sort out the important from the trivial.”
    Frederick Quinn –Foreign Service Journal

“A monumental , significant study.”
    Charles Snydor Jr. –Chapel Hill Newspaper

“The result of a decade’s research and analysis, the text offers as much interpretation as fact, and both are well synthesized in a facilely written narrative style.”
    Gerard E. Silberstein – American Historical Review

“Weinberg’s scope is refreshingly broad.”
    John S. Wozniak –Review of Politics

“Social and intellectual history of diplomacy at its best.”
    Vojtech Mastny– New Leader

“:Diplomatic history of the highest order…certain to leave all the competitors far behind.”
    W. Carr–University of Sheffield

“The definitive work on Hitler’s foreign policy and the origins of the Second World War.”
    George O. Kent– The Washington Post

Gerhard L. Weinberg was born in Hanover, Germany, on January 1, 1928. His father was a judge who had been wounded, decorated and promoted during the First World War. He went to school in Hanover during the early Nazi years up to the 5th grade, when he was expelled like all Jewish children following Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938. Most of his father’s family was murdered in the Holocaust. The family arrived in the United States on September 10, 1940. Gerhard Weinberg went to graduate school at the University of Chicago for an MA and PhD in 1949 and 1951. For many years he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   In addition to numerous professional offices, he was a consultant to and resident scholar at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and served on the historical advisory committees of the US Air Force, the Army, and the Department of Defense. Gerhard L. Weinberg is the author, editor or co-author of ten books among them A World At Arms, Visions of Victory and Hitler’s Second Book. He is also the author of over 100 articles, chapters, and other publications. Dr. Weinberg lives with his wife in very active retirement in North Carolina.