A review by miguelf
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche

4.0

To be just slightly critical here, I don’t think that the author lives up to the title in that instead of a laser focused overview of the first 100 days the reader receives quite a bit of information post 1933 that could have been exchanged for an even closer examination of the title’s subject matter. That stated, the book does a pretty good job of giving a flavor for the outset of the Nazi regime with particular focus on ordinary reaction of firsthand accounts giving a sense of how the national mood was both shaped and changed in the process. There’s also some good detail on the role and reaction of the social democrats (current SDP party in Germany) and their role and response to Hitler taking over the chancellorship.