Why Hitler? : the genesis of the Nazi Reich

Hitler attained power in 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors, including the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; the German's lack of faith in democracy and the reasons behind it; the corruption and mismanagement that characterized the Weimar Republic, as democratic Germany was called; the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, during which the German currency lost 99.3% of its value in just 12 weeks and the cost of eggs soared to 80 billion marks each. Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-198) and index. xii, 205 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm