Publisher's Synopsis
"This is the story of the rise to power of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as told to its members, from seven men in a Munich basement to absolute power over the German state. Originally published as an educational and propaganda work by the SS Main Office and the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, it captures the entire development of the party, from its background in the parliamentary failures of the old Empire and the chaos of the Weimar Republic, to the procession of political intrigues and plots that marked their grueling path to the final victory. More than anything, it is an invaluable resource for gaining an understanding of how the political situation actually developed in Germany from 1918-1933 and dispelling the many myths about this period that persist even to this day. The German Republic before the NSDAP's rise to power was a tangled web of factions, from the Social Democrats and the conservatives of the Cent
