Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hitler - Alexander Clifford

Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hitler

Germany's Generals and the Rise of the Nazis
Buch | Hardcover
368 Seiten
2021
Pen & Sword Military (Verlag)
978-1-5267-8333-2 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Absorbing study of how Hindenburg and Ludendorff contributed to the rise of the Nazis.
They are two of twentieth-century history's most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten - Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany's First World War leaders. Although defeat in 1918 brought an end to their 'silent dictatorship', both generals played a key role in the turbulent politics of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis.

Alexander Clifford, in this perceptive reassessment of their political careers, questions the popular image of these generals in the English-speaking world as honourable 'Good Germans'. For they were intensely political men, whose ideas and actions shaped the new Germany and ultimately led to Hitler's dictatorship.

Their poisonous wartime legacy was the infamous stab-in-the-back myth. According to the generals, the true cause of the disastrous defeat in the First World War was the betrayal of the army by politicians, leftists and Jews on the home front. This toxic conspiracy theory polluted Weimar politics and has been labelled the beginning of 'the twisted road to Auschwitz'.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff's political fortunes after the war were markedly different. Ludendorff inhabited the far-right fringes and engaged in plots, assassinations and conspiracies, playing a leading role in failed uprisings such as Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Meanwhile Hindenburg was a vastly more successful politician, winning two presidential elections and serving as head of state for nine years. Arguably he bore even more responsibility for the destruction of democracy, for he and the nationalist right he led sought, through Hitler, to remould the Weimar system towards authoritarianism.

Alexander Clifford is a historian who has studied at the universities of Leeds, Munich and Northumbria, and is an expert on Europe in the interwar period and has made a particular study of the Spanish Civil War. His previous publications include The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936-1939 and Fighting for Spain: The International Brigades in the Civil War 1936-1939.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 30 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort South Yorkshire
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5267-8333-9 / 1526783339
ISBN-13 978-1-5267-8333-2 / 9781526783332
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
die große Flucht der Literatur

von Uwe Wittstock

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
26,00
Mythos „Stauffenberg-Attentat“ – wie der 20. Juli 1944 verklärt und …

von Ruth Hoffmann

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
Goldmann (Verlag)
24,00