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This paper explains that William Shirer's detailed, first-hand account of the reign of Hitler's Third Reich allows his readers to delve deeply into the dynamics that led to Hitler's success and to his downfall marking the end of the Second World War. The author points out that Shirer expresses antagonism over Hitler's personality and actions as a leader. The paper stresses the Third Reich's inhumane practices against the Jewry and the Nazi government's blatant practice of plunder and corruption.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Birth of the Third Reich
Chapter 2: Birth of the Nazi Party
Chapter 3: Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch
Chapter 4: The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich
Chapter 5: The Road to Power: 1925-31
Chapter 7: The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34
Chapter 8: Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37
Chapter 9: The First Steps: 1934-37
Chapter 10: Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Bloomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht
Chapter 11: Anschluss: The Rape of Austria
Chapter 12: The Road to Munich
Chapter 13: Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist
Chapter 14: The Turn of Poland
Chapter 15: The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Chapter 16: The Last Days of Peace
Chapter 17: The Launching of World War II
Chapter 18: The Fall of Poland
Chapter 19: Sitzkrieg in the West
Chapter 20: The Conquest of Denmark and Norway
Chapter 21: Victory in the West
Chapter 22: Operation Sea Lion: the Thwarted Invasion of Britain
Chapter 23: Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia
Chapter 24: A Turn of the Tide
Chapter 25: The Turn of the United States
Chapter 26: The Great Turning Point: 1942-Stalingrad and El Alamein
Chapter 27: The New Order
Chapter 28: The Fall of Mussolini
Chapter 29: The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler
Chapter 30: The Conquest of Germany
Chapter 31: The Last Days
Analysis of Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"

From the Paper:

"With an already developed hatred for the Jews and belief that the Germans were the superior race, Hitler, in the midst of the World War I, had strengthened his political ideology. Disillusioned by the loss of the Germans in the war, Hitler began boldly expressing his views against anti-Semitism. As a young soldier, he was given the opportunity to share with his fellow soldiers his political thinking and beliefs as he was appointed as an educational officer for the German Army. Shirer also disclosed how Hitler's investigation of the German Workers' Party led to his becoming a member of the said party, then eventually conjoined this part with that of the National Socialism."

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