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　　From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and

original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to

fight to the bitter end of World War II.

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost

World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the

equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as

long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had

been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Even in the

near-apocalyptic final months, when the war was plainly lost, the

Nazis refused to sue for peace. Historically, this is extremely

rare.

Drawing on original testimony from ordinary Germans and

arch-Nazis alike, award-winning historian Ian Kershaw explores this

fascinating question in a gripping and focused narrative that

begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the

German capitulation in May 1945. Hitler, desperate to avoid a

repeat of the "disgraceful" German surrender in 1918, was of course

critical to the Third Reich's fanatical determination, but his

power was sustained only because those below him were unable, or

unwilling, to challenge it. Even as the military situation grew

increasingly hopeless, Wehrmacht generals fought on, their orders

largely obeyed, and the regime continued its ruthless persecution

of Jews, prisoners, and foreign workers. Beneath the hail of allied

bombing, German society maintained some semblance of normalcy in

the very last months of the war. The Berlin Philharmonic even

performed on April 12, 1945, less than three weeks before Hitler's

suicide.

As Kershaw shows, the structure of Hitler's "charismatic rule"

created a powerful negative bond between him and the Nazi

leadership- they had no future without him, and so their fates were

inextricably tied. Terror also helped the Third Reich maintain its

grip on power as the regime began to wage war not only on its

ideologically defined enemies but also on the German people

themselves. Yet even as each month brought fresh horrors for

civilians, popular support for the regime remained linked to a

patriotic support of Germany and a terrible fear of the enemy

closing in.

Based on prodigious new research, Kershaw's The End is a

harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last

desperate gasps.

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface

Dramatis Personae

Introduction: Going Down in Flames

1. Shock to the System

2. Collapse in the West

3. Foretaste of Horror

4. Hopes Raised - and Dashed

5. Calamity in the East

6. Terror Comes Home

7. Crumbling Foundations

8. Implosion

9. Liquidation

Conclusion: Anatomy of Self-Destruction

Notes

List of Archival Sources Cited

List of Works Cited

Index

　　Ian Kershaw is the author of Fateful

Choices; Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth

Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and the definitive

two-volume biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and

Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis. The first volume was shortlisted

for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for

Nonfiction, and the second volume won the Wolfson Literary Award

for History and the inaugural British Academy Prize.

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From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Even in the near-apocalyptic final months, when the war was plainly lost, the Nazis refused to sue for peace. Historically, this is extremely rare. Drawing on original testimony from ordinary Germans and arch-Nazis alike, award-winning historian Ian Kershaw explores this fascinating question in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the German capitulation in May 1945. Hitler, desperate to avoid a repeat of the "disgraceful" German surrender in 1918, was of course critical to the Third Reich's fanatical determination, but his power was sustained only because those below him were unable, or unwilling, to challenge it. Even as the military situation grew increasingly hopeless, Wehrmacht generals fought on, their orders largely obeyed, and the regime continued its ruthless persecution of Jews, prisoners, and foreign workers. Beneath the hail of allied bombing, German society maintained some semblance of normalcy in the very last months of the war. The Berlin Philharmonic even performed on April 12, 1945, less than three weeks before Hitler's suicide. As Kershaw shows, the structure of Hitler's "charismatic rule" created a powerful negative bond between him and the Nazi leadership- they had no future without him, and so their fates were inextricably tied. Terror also helped the Third Reich maintain its grip on power as the regime began to wage war not only on its ideologically defined enemies but also on the German people themselves. Yet even as each month brought fresh horrors for civilians, popular support for the regime remained linked to a patriotic support of Germany and a terrible fear of the enemy closing in. Based on prodigious new research, Kershaw's The End is a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps.