In Hitler’s Munich Audiobook Libro.fm

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In the aftermath of Germanys defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 191819 the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with leftwing radicalism Munich became a hotbed of rightwing 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 Bavarias capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution

In an electrifying narrative that takes listeners from Hitlers return to Munich following the armistice to his calamitous Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 Brenner demonstrates why the citys transformation is crucial for understanding the Nazi era and the tragedy of the Holocaust Brenner describes how Hitler and his followers terrorized Munichs Jews and were aided by politicians judges police and ordinary residents He shows how the citys Jews responded to the antiSemitic backlash in many different waysby 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 Hitlers Munich reveals the untold story of how a oncecosmopolitan city became in the words of Thomas Mann the city of Hitler