FREE: Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe

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Mark Mazonwer's "Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. Hardback. 726 pages.

From inside cover...
"Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.
Drawing on an unprecedented range and variety of sources, "Hitler's Empire" demands that we face the full implications of Hitler's takeover of Europe. Using twentieth-century technology to achieve nineteenth-century goals, Germany's forces achieved, in just a few years, the astounding domination of a landmass and population larger than that of the United States. Control of this vast territory was supposed to provide the basis for Germany's rise to unquestioned world power. Eastern Europe was to be the Reich's Wild West, transformed, pacified, and civilized by massacre and colonial settlement. Western Eurpoe was to provide the economic resources that would knit an authoritarian and racially cleansed continent together. But the brutality and short sightedness of Nazi politics lost what German arms had won and brought their equally rapid downfall.
One of the book's most surprising ironies is the fact that the conquerors turned out to be too ill equipped for their own success. Time and again, the speed of the German's victories caught them unprepared for the economic or psychological intricacies of running such a far-flung domination. Politically impoverished, the German's had no idea how to rule, except by bludgeon, the millions of people they suddenly controlled. Ultimately, the Third Reich would be beaten as much by its own hand as by the enemy..."

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