$9.99 on Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Kobo, Google PlayHitler’s Germany: The Nazi Background to War by Karl Loewenstein (55,000 words)
“So far, no book has been published which contains in so narrow a compass so many-indeed practically all-essential facts concerning the structure of Nazi Germany and the organization of Nazi activities in the various branches of public life. A great deal about the constitution and governmental institutions, the organization of national economy, labor, education, religion, the professions, and an especially brilliant chapter on the party, will be found in this outline, which is all the more impressive by its strict adherence to the sober and cool statement of facts.” — John H. Herz, The American Political Science Review
“[A] highly reliable book on National-Socialist Germany... the most authoritative study written so far on the constitutional structure of the Third Reich and its operation. The author, a constitutional lawyer by training, is one of the few really qualified scholars whose words must be regarded irreproachable in a field of modern government where prejudice and predilections easily lead to immature presentation.” — Heinz H. F. Eulau, California Law Review
“We can recommend this book as the most succinct and up-to-date analysis of the Third Reich and its structure. In 176 small pages are summarized not only the most important features of the political institutions and the methods of domination but also the results of their application.” — Waldemar Gurian, The Review of Politics
“This compact and readable work is a revised study of the author’s Hitler’s Germany which originally reached his publishers at the very outbreak of the present European conflict. It is a scholarly presentation of the revolutionary structure of the Third Reich which was erected upon the ruins of the Weimar Republic. Moreover, it is a reliable manual of the ideologies of the Nazis, their symbolism, racialism, and mass control through emotionalism.” — Ralph Haswell Lutz, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
“Not just another book on that world problem called Germany, this compact little volume occupies a unique place in such literature... Professor Loewenstein has repressed any natural resentment to produce a realistic study whose effect is the more definite by reason of its restraint. We have seen no other book on any subject which compresses more information... than does this small volume.” — M. S. Call, World Affairs
“[A] lucid, balanced work... Privileged to draw upon both official sources and émigré literature, sufficiently withdrawn from the scene to give a composite view without loss of perspective, [Loewenstein] gives a succinct picture portraying not only the externals of the Third Reich, but also the inner sources of its power in both domestic and foreign affairs.” — Malbone W. Graham, The American Journal of International Law