Jackson J. Book Review (Book Review Sample)

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Introduction
Jackson J. Spielvogel, the author of the book gives a precise, simple, and absolute history of the rise of Hitler and Nazi both chronological and thematically. The author attributes the appearance of the Third Reich and Hitler within the economic, political, and social frameworks that made it all successful. He went ahead and scrutinized the social and cultural facets of the Nazi Regime that comprised of literature and pieces on art, policy on population and family, and ethics and gender. Spielvogel gives his detailed analysis of the Holocaust which was anti-Semitism in Germany, the individual Hitler’s vision and ideology of Aryan Purity, the apparatus of terror and control, and perspective of the Jews on these incidents. In the Fifth edition of Hitler and Nazi, A History, the author brings out the matters on the political panorama in Weimar Germany early life of Hitler, the position of Strasser Gregor in transforming the Nazi Party on Darre and Soil and Bloods the SS and the military amid 1933 and 1939 (Speilvogel 75)
The author starts by explaining the foundations of the Nazi party after the World War II. He illustrates how the army expert Hitler, frustrated by his country’s defeat in the war that left Germany politically unstable and economically disheartened, coupled with a young political organization by the name German Worker’s Party. An organization established by a group of young men who included Karl Harrer, a journalist, and Locksmith Anton Drexler who promoted anti-Semitism and German nationalism. Mr. Jackson in his book, accounts for the events that led to Hitler rising to power with his Nazi party and assumes a dictatorial regime in Germany. According to the author, Germany faced harsh economic conditions in 1929 which resulted to a prevalent state of unemployment in Germany (Speilvogel 65). Hitler’s Nazi Party took advantage of the situation at that time to continuously criticize the ruling government till the party gained power and started winning elections. This led to the party capturing more than a third of the Germany’s parliamentary seats. Then Hitler’s appointment as the German chancellor followed and his party took control of the Germans.
Jackson talks in his book about the dictatorial leadership under Hitler’s region that oppressed the social, cultural, and economic lives of the German citizens under his term. He points out how the Nazi party banned all other political parties from participating in active politics. Hitler and the Nazi party then established a concentration camp in Dachau that was used to accommodate political prisoners. This camp turned out to be a fatal place where the Jews starved to death, died of malnutrition, overworking, and diseases. The prisoners comprised of the Jews mainly and other unions that Hitler regarded as unsuitable for the contemporary. This included people such as gypsies, intellectuals, artists, mentally handicapped, homosexuals, and the physically handicapped people (Speilvogel 65).
The book also shows how Hitler and the Nazi regime affected the German foreign policy. It precisely describes how Hitler’s ascend to power made him together with his Nazi party reverted the treaty of Versailles and reinstated German’s position in the world. He barred the treaty arguing that it denied Germany as he terms it as Europe’s most populous state, the "living space" for the increasing number of population. The Versailles Treaty was formed on the basis developing a people who are self-determined. However, Hitler and his party were against the treaty arguing that the treaty had brought division among the Germans by introducing new states such as Czechoslovakia and Austria that inhabited many Germans.
Spielvogel also depicts Hitler’s ignorance towards the new postwar international order. Hitler did this in bits. He started by withdrawing Germany from the League of Nations, he reconstructed the armed forces of German past the accepte...