Peter Ross Range has written a gripping account of Hitler’s rise to power. As the Nazi party was torn by internal dissent and losing popular support, a high-level conspiracy placed Hitler in the chancellor’s office. With the January 6, 2021 insurrection and the ongoing crisis of American democracy, this history is more than relevant. It is a warning.
A journalist and specialist on Germany, author Peter Ross Range tells the story of 1924: The Year That Made Hitler, vital to understand the persistence and subsequent rise of Hitler as the leader of the Nazi Party.
Published during the tense 2020 presidential election in the United States, this book is a chilling “cautionary tale” of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power between 1925 and 1933. Ross Range examines the improbable coming to power in 1933 of Hitler’s fractious Nazi movement, repeatedly rescued from defeat by the support of a section of German industrialists and financiers. Reich President Hindenberg’s reluctant decision to hand Hitler power would lead to the Third Reich and the slaughter of millions in the bloodbath of the second imperialist world war.
