"In 1933 Germany became a dictatorship under the Great War veteran Adolf Hitler. He pulled the country out of depression and set it to work, reducing unemployment by undertaking extensive public works and building the first autoroutes in the world. He then resumed conscription and rearmament. All opposition had been eliminated and all power centered in that one man, whose boasted promise was a German Empire that would last ''a Thousand Years''. The author was born in 1935. Ten years later millions had died, much of the continent lay in ruins, his country was shamed and the ''thousand years'' came to a fiery end. Others experienced worse, but for a ten-year-old with explosions all about him and with the world seeming to be burning the war made a vivid impression. His Westphalian village consisted largely of traditional farms and homesteads built of wattle and daub-often still shared by livestock. Most of the male population had been call
| ISBN: | 9781781557358 |
| Publication date: | 18th July 2019 |
| Author: | Robert Hallmann |
| Publisher: | Fonthill Media |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 287 pages |
| Genres: |
European history Social and cultural history Second World War |
"In 1933 Germany became a dictatorship under the Great War veteran Adolf Hitler. He pulled the country out of depression and set it to work, reducing unemployment by undertaking extensive public works and building the first autoroutes in the world. He then resumed conscription and rearmament. All opposition had been eliminated and all power centered in that one man, whose boasted promise was a German Empire that would last ''a Thousand Years''. The author was born in 1935. Ten years later millions had died, much of the continent lay in ruins, his country was shamed and the ''thousand years'' came to a fiery end. Others experienced worse, but for a ten-year-old with explosions all about him and with the world seeming to be burning the war made a vivid impression. His Westphalian village consisted largely of traditional farms and homesteads built of wattle and daub-often still shared by livestock. Most of the male population had been call
A Short Thousand Years features in the following genres: European history, Social and cultural history, Second World War
A Short Thousand Years is available in Hardback
A Short Thousand Years was written by Robert Hallmann and published by Fonthill Media
A Short Thousand Years has 287 pages