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The Third Reich in Power   Richard J. Evans
The second volume of Evans' trilogy, this volume is a measured, scholarly, detailed, 930-page history of the Nazi state from spring 1933 to the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Well organized by topics such as intellectual life, education based on “brutal physical prowess”, religion, the economy, labor, coordination, agriculture, rearmament, rampant political corruption, etc. to show the complete nazification of all aspects of German life. And, of course, the systematic aryanization, racial hygiene, eugenics, and vicious anti-Semitism. An excellent, well-written history, but difficult to read because of the subject. I knew they were really bad, but the more you know about the Nazis, the worse they are.