From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his antisemitic ideas. Michael Brenner provides a gripping account of how Bavaria's capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.In an electrifying narrative that takes readers from Hitler's return to Munich following the armistice to his calamitous Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Brenner demonstrates why the city's transformation is crucial for understanding the Nazi era and the tragedy of the Holocaust. Brenner describes how Hitler and his followers terrorized Munich's Jews and were aided by politicians, judges, police, and ordinary residents. He shows how the city's Jews responded to the antisemitic backlash in many different ways—by declaring their loyalty to the state, by avoiding public life, or by abandoning the city altogether.Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown documents, In Hitler's Munich reveals the untold story of how a once-cosmopolitan city became, in the words of Thomas Mann, "the city of Hitler."
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CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Brenner, Jeremiah Riemer
EAN: 9780691191034
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Princeton University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-22
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Germany, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
WIDTH: 156 cm
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Munich, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic), 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Far-right political ideologies and movements, European history
"In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution and the Rise of Nazism explores the great variety of roles played by Munich’s Jews in those years, putting to rest any simple characterization of pre-World War II German Jewry."---Robert Siegel, Moment Magazine, "In his excellent new book, the noted German Jewish historian Michael Brenner explains and analyses how and why Munich became the bedrock of Nazism."---Colin Shindler, Jewish Chronicle, "Michael Brenner. . . has written a book that tells the tragic story of the city and its Jews after World War I without fear or favor and, indeed, in this particular case, without either pride or shame."---Steven E. Aschheim, Jewish Review of Books, "Brenner’s scholarship is rigorous and impressive. . . . [He] never lets us forget that these were people, not just figures in a historical text. . . . Although he did not intend or foresee it when he began to write, it quickly became apparent to him that what he was describing resonated uncomfortably with the events of January 6th, 2020 — the storming of the Capitol in Washington. At every turn the reader is reminded of the lessons of history."---Mark Welch, Jewish Book Council, "Deep, important research by a master historian."
Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and director of the Center for Israel Studies at American University and professor of Jewish history and culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. His many books include In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea and A Short History of the Jews (both Princeton).
