Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich - Brossura

Preparata, Guido Giacomo

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ISBN 10: 074532181X ISBN 13: 9780745321813

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2005

Riassunto

A fascinating and controversial new perspective on Hitler's rise to power; Provides startling evidence of Britain and America's financial support for the Third Reich; Suggests that the western elite deliberately supported Nazism in the pre-war period to destabilise any alliance between Germany and Russia Nazism is usually depicted as an eerie German phenomenon, the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated. Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very different: using meticulous economic analysis, he reveals that Hitler's extraordinary rise to power was actually facilitated over the course of a decade following WWI - and eventually financed - by the British and American political classes. Tracing events in the Third Reich, Preparata offers a startling history of Anglo-American geopolitical interests in the early twentieth century. He explains that Britain, still clinging to its empire, was terrified of an alliance forming between Germany and Russia. He shows how Britain, through the Bank of England, came to exercise some control over Weimar and how Britain's financial support for Hitler enabled the Nazis to seize power. Nazism was not regarded as an aberration: for the British establishment of the time, it was a convenient way of destabilising Europe, and driving Germany into conflict with Stalinist Russia. In this way Britain ensured that it would prevent the formation of any rival continental power block. Guido Giacomo Preparata lays bare the economic forces at play in the Third Reich, and identifies the key players in the British and American establishment who aided Hitler's meteoric rise.

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Recensione:

Conjuring Hitler is the most important book on modern European history since George Lichtheim's Europe in the Twentieth Century. Unlike Lichtheim's volume, however, Conjuring Hitler successfully challenges every aspect of conventional wisdom about the politics of the two world wars. George W. Bush famously said that Saddam Hussein was 'worse than Hitler.' President Bush had a point (his family after all was very familiar with the Nazis). Both Hitler and Saddam likely were evil creations of the US and British intelligence apparatus. As Conjuring Hitler makes clear, the rise of Hitler was assisted at many critical points by the war parties in England and the United States who plotted to set Russia and Germany against one another and collect the spoils. (Professor David MacGregor, University of Western Ontario)

L'autore:

Guido Giacomo Preparata is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Washington. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in the USA, France and Italy, he completed his PhD in Political Economy and Economic History at the University of Southern California in 1998.

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 074532181X
• ISBN 13: 9780745321813
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336