Where It All Goes Down
Nazi Germany
If Hitler had gotten his way, the "Third Reich" would have stretched far beyond the traditional borders of Germany itself, swallowing up vast stretches of other European territories. For a time, it was exactly that. We follow the Germans into Austria, the Slavic nations, Poland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Russia.
Even so, Shirer's focus is on Nazi Germany itself—the place where Hitler's attempted "Nazification" of Europe began, and the center point from which all of the Fuehrer's invasions, incursions, occupations, and assaults radiated outwards to the world beyond.
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