An In-Depth Chronicle Of Hitler, World War II, And Nazi Germany, Formally inaugurated in Potsdam in 1933, Hitler regarded the Third Reich as the greatest in a line of mighty German empires. His mystical belief that this empire would last a thousand years proved unfounded, but not before a world war that resulted in the loss of at least seventy million lives. This atlas charts the rise and fall of Hitler's Nazi state, from the first mass meeting of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) in Munich in 1920, through the relentless territorial aggression and anti-Jewish atrocities of World War II, to the execution of war criminals in Nuremburg in 1946. World War II expert and author Richard Overly has been praised by British historian A. J. P. Taylor as "highly effective in the ruthless dispelling of myths." In this book.

Historical Atlas of the Third Reich, Overy presents penetrating insights info the seemingly inexorable rise of National Socialism and examines the nature of Hitler's power structures both within his party and within Germany as a whole.