The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Unabridged)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer; read by Grover Gardner
Blackstone Audio (July 16, 2010)
(Orig. published by Simon and Schuster in September 1960)
Unabridged (Length: 57 hrs., 13 mins)
Orig. Media: Audio Download (Audible)
1959, 1960 by William L. Shirer, Renewed 1987, 1988 by William L. Shirer; Afterword ©1990 by William L. Shirer; ?2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
ASIN: B003X4R6GQ
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"One of the most important works of history of our time." --THE NEW YORK TIMES
TABLE OF CONTENTS . . .
I. OPENING CREDITS & QUOTATIONS (00:58) - [PHOTO: Hitler & the Third Reich]
II. FOREWORD (10:56) - [PHOTO: Author William L. Shirer]
BOOK ONE: THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER [Total Length - 5:53:23]
01. Birth of the Third Reich (Total Length - 1:23:59)
PART 1 (45:01) - [PHOTO: Hitler is appointed Chancellor, Jan. 30, 1933]
PART 2 (38:58) - [PHOTO: Adolf Hitler, age 10]
02. Birth of the Nazi Party (Total Length - 1:16:28)
PART 1 (39:58) - [PHOTO: Anton Drexler, founder of the DAP]
PART 2 (36:30) - [PHOTO: Nazi Party march in Munich, 1923--note the homemade swastika flags]
03. Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch (Total Length - 1:26:03)
PART 1 (44:59) - [PHOTO: Friedrich Ebert, 1st Pres. of the Weimar Rep.]
PART 2 (41:01) - [PHOTO: Hitler during the Beer Hall Putsch]
04. The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich (Total Length - 1:46:57)
PART 1 (55:03) - [PHOTO: Orig. cover of 'Mein Kampf']
PART 2 (51:54) - [PHOTO: Houston Stewart Chamberlain]
BOOK TWO: TRIUMPH AND CONSOLIDATION [Total Length - 8:27:28]
05. The Road to Power: 1925-31 (Total Length - 1:45:32)
PART 1 (54:52) - [PHOTO: Hitler speaking to formative Nazi Party]
PART 2 (50:39) - [PHOTO: Gregor Strasser in 1928]
06. The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-33 (Total Length - 1:59:01)
PART 1 (40:02) - [PHOTO: Gen. Kurt von Schleicher]
PART 2 (39:59) - [PHOTO: Chancellor Heinrich Brüning]
PART 3 (39:00) - [PHOTO: Schemer extraordinaire Franz von Papen]
07. The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34 (Total Length - 2:12:52)
PART 1 (45:05) - [PHOTO: Hitler with the Cabinet--Papen at right w- Hugenberg behind him]
PART 2 (44:50) - [PHOTO: Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933]
PART 3 (42:58) - [PHOTO: Ernst Roehm with SA men]
08. Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37 (Total Length - 2:30:03)
PART 1 (49:57) - [PHOTO: Hitler proclaims the 1936 Olympics open]
PART 2 (50:04) - [PHOTO: 'Hitler Youth' at a vacation camp]
PART 3 (50:02) - [PHOTO: Dr. Hans Frank, Commissioner of Justice & Reich Law Leader]
BOOK THREE: THE ROAD TO WAR [Total Length - 17:11:34]
SECTION 01 [Total Length - 8:54:32]
09. The First Steps: 1934-37 (Total Length - 1:31:55)
PART 1 (45:01) - [PHOTO: German troops march into the Rhineland]
PART 2 (46:54) - [PHOTO: Austrian leaders Engelbert Dollfuss (left) & Kurt Schuschnigg]
10. Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht (38:45) -
[PHOTO: Werner von Blomberg (top-L), Werner Freiherr von Fritsch (top-R), Konstantin von Neurath (bot-L) & Hjalmar Schacht]
11. Anschluss: The Rape of Austria (Total Length - 1:44:36)
PART 1 (54:54) - [PHOTO: Austrian SA men demonstrate shirtless to protest a ban on Nazi uniforms]
PART 2 (49:41) - [PHOTO: Hitler's triumphant entry into Vienna to proclaim Anschluss w- Germany]
12. The Road to Munich (Total Length: 3:38:21)
PART 1 (45:00) - [PHOTO: Czechoslovakia's founding fathers Toma?s? Garrigue Masaryk & Eduard Benes?]
PART 2 (45:00) - [PHOTO: Neville Chamberlain meets w- Hitler at Berchtesgaden]
PART 3 (45:20) - [PHOTO: Czech Gen. Jan Syrovy?--May 30, 1938 cover of LIFE mag.]
PART 4 (44:43) - [PHOTO: Gen. Franz Halder]
PART 5 (38:18) - [PHOTO: Chamberlain, Hitler & Mussolini at the Munich conference]
13. Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist (Total Length - 1:20:56)
PART 1 (40:31) - [PHOTO: Czech troops prepare for the war with Germany that never came]
PART 2 (40:24) - [PHOTO: Stunned citizens look on as German troops occupy Prague unresisted]
BOOK THREE, SECTION 02 [Total Length: 8:16:34]
14. The Turn of Poland (Total Length: 2:52:21)
PART 1 (44:58) - [PHOTO: Józef Lipski speaking at a Nazi Party rally in 1938--Ribbentrop also present]
PART 2 (45:05) - [PHOTO: Hitler's mocking reply to Pres. Roosevelt at the Reichstag]
PART 3 (44:55) - [PHOTO: The British Fleet in 1939]
PART 4 (37:23) - [PHOTO: Ger. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Werner von der Schulenburg]
15. The Nazi-Soviet Pact (Total Length - 1:36:41)
PART 1 (46:06) - [PHOTO: Alfred Naujocks--leader of "Oper. Himmler"]
PART 2 (50:35) - [PHOTO: Ribbentrop signs the Nazi-Soviet Pact as Stalin & Molotov look on]
16. The Last Days of Peace (Total Length - 2:33:50)
PART 1 (40:00) - [PHOTO: Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany]
PART 2 (40:04) - [PHOTO: Gen. Ludwig Beck]
PART 3 (39:50) - [PHOTO: Swedish businessman & amateur diplomat Birger Dahlerus]
PART 4 (33:56) - [PHOTO: Lord Halifax with Hermann Go?ring]
17. The Launching of World War II (Total Length - 1:13:42)
PART 1 (39:59) - [PHOTO: Germany invades Poland]
PART 2 (33:43) - [PHOTO: French PM E?douard Daladier]
BOOK FOUR: WAR: EARLY VICTORIES AND THE TURNING POINT [Total Length - 15:20:17]
SECTION 01 [Total Length - 8:17:24]
18. The Fall of Poland (23:07) - [PHOTO: Hitler reviewing troops at the Nazi victory parade in Warsaw]
19. Sitzkrieg in the West (1:57:39)
PART 1 (40:00) - [PHOTO: S.S. Athenia, 1st casualty of the U-Boat war / Cap'n Fritz Lemp of the U-30]
PART 2 (40:00) - [PHOTO: Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch]
PART 3 (37:38) - [PHOTO: Belzec Labor Camp in Poland, 1940]
20. The Conquest of Denmark and Norway (2:00:21)
PART 1 (39:58) - [PHOTO: Grand Admiral Erich Raeder]
PART 2 (40:05) - [PHOTO: German tanks in Denmark]
PART 3 (40:18) - [PHOTO: German forces advancing near Bagn in Norway]
21. Victory in the West (2:15:02)
PART 1 (44:59) - [PHOTO: German Ambassador to Belgium Vicco von Bu?low-Schwante]
PART 2 (45:05) - [PHOTO: German advance through the Ardennes / Gen. Erich von Manstein]
PART 3 (44:57) - [PHOTO: Hitler in Paris after victory over the French]
22. Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain (1:41:16)
PART 1 (50:30) - [PHOTO: The Battle of Britain]
PART 2 (50:46) - [PHOTO: Preparations for Operation Sea Lion]
BOOK FOUR, SECTION 02 [Total Length - 7:02:39]
23. Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia (Total Length - 3:00:37)
PART 1 (45:04) - [PHOTO: Soviet troops occupy Riga, June 1940]
PART 2 (45:00) - [PHOTO: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov arrives in Berlin for meetings w- the German Gov.]
PART 3 (44:53) - [PHOTO: German troops invade the Balkans]
PART 4 (45:40) - [PHOTO: The Invasion of the Soviet Union]
24. A Turn of the Tide (53:26) - [PHOTO: Soviet troops in winter gear counter-attack the Germans at Moscow]
25. The Turn of the United States (1:32:14)
PART 1 (46:57) - [PHOTO: Damage to the U.S.S. Kearny from a German torpedo attack]
PART 2 (45:17) - [PHOTO: Hitler declares war on the U.S. following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]
26. The Great Turning Point: 1942--Stalingrad and El Alamein (1:36:22)
PART 1 (49:59) - [PHOTO: German troops fight off a Red Army attack at Stalingrad]
PART 2 (46:23) - [PHOTO: Montgomery (left), Rommel & the Battle of El Alamein]
BOOK 1 (incl. Opening Credits & Foreword) . . . . . . . . . . 06:05:17
BOOK 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .08:27:28
BOOK 3, SECTION 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08:54:32
BOOK 3, SECTION 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08:16:34
BOOK 4, SECTION 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08:17:24
BOOK 4, SECTION 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07:02:39
BOOK 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .07:15:04
BOOK 6 (incl. Epilogue, Afterword & Closing Credits) . . . 02:52:17
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TOTAL RUNNING TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57:11:15
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