Index
Book I - Prologue - 1918-1936
Chapter I - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part I
Chapter II - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part II
Chapter III - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part III
Chapter IV - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part IV
Chapter V - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part V
Chapter VI - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part I
Chapter VII - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part II
Chapter VIII - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part III
Chapter IX - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part IV
Chapter X - Reform, Instability, and Preparation - 1929-1932
Chapter XI - A Domestic Reckoning - 1933
Chapter XII - A Domestic Settlement – 1933
Chapter XIII - Revolt - 1930-1932
Chapter XIV - The ’Mutiny Against Destiny’- 1929
Chapter XV - Entrenchment – 1932 - 1935
Chapter XVI - Establishments – 1928 - 1935
Chapter XVII - Eventide and Sunset - 1934
Chapter XVIII - Shifting Sands - 1934
Chapter XIX - New Times, New Man - 1929 - 1934
Chapter XX - The End of the Beginning - 1929-1935
Book II - 1936 onwards
Chapter I - The Clouds Lowered - January - May, 1936
Chapter II - Heat and Light - June - August, 1936
Chapter III - The Eye of the World - August, 1936
Chapter IV - A Quickening of Pace – August – September, 1936
Chapter V - Winter Steeling Over – October – December, 1936
Chapter VI - Decay - January - April, 1937
Chapter VII - First Blood - March - May, 1937
Chapter VII - Unifications - May - August, 1937
Chapter VIII - Mourning Times - August - December, 1937
Chapter IX - Rise and Fall - January - March, 1938
Chapter I - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part I
Chapter II - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part II
Chapter III - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part III
Chapter IV - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part IV
Chapter V - Upheavals - 1920-1924, Part V
Chapter VI - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part I
Chapter VII - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part II
Chapter VIII - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part III
Chapter IX - Europe in Transition – 1920-1930, Part IV
Chapter X - Reform, Instability, and Preparation - 1929-1932
Chapter XI - A Domestic Reckoning - 1933
Chapter XII - A Domestic Settlement – 1933
Chapter XIII - Revolt - 1930-1932
Chapter XIV - The ’Mutiny Against Destiny’- 1929
Chapter XV - Entrenchment – 1932 - 1935
Chapter XVI - Establishments – 1928 - 1935
Chapter XVII - Eventide and Sunset - 1934
Chapter XVIII - Shifting Sands - 1934
Chapter XIX - New Times, New Man - 1929 - 1934
Chapter XX - The End of the Beginning - 1929-1935
Book II - 1936 onwards
Chapter I - The Clouds Lowered - January - May, 1936
Chapter II - Heat and Light - June - August, 1936
Chapter III - The Eye of the World - August, 1936
Chapter IV - A Quickening of Pace – August – September, 1936
Chapter V - Winter Steeling Over – October – December, 1936
Chapter VI - Decay - January - April, 1937
Chapter VII - First Blood - March - May, 1937
Chapter VII - Unifications - May - August, 1937
Chapter VIII - Mourning Times - August - December, 1937
Chapter IX - Rise and Fall - January - March, 1938
Preamble - The War to End All Wars
Germany broken.
The 'War to End All Wars' was over. In it's wake, millions were dead, millions more were left to grieve and pick up what little they could from the ruins, and the Imperial German Reich of the Kaisers was gone. Germany had fought long and hard over four difficult years, against the combined might of France, Russia, and the British Empire, and it had all largely come to nought. Worse than nought; when the product of an enterprise is nought, you at least retain what you had to begin with. Germany had been traduced materially, politically, economically and financially.A Socialist Chancellor now occupied the same office that Bismarck had a mere few decades before; Bolshevism ran riot in the streets, and a stake was driven through the heart of Germany in the form of the 'Versailles Diktat'. A picture that stirred the passions of every true German nationalist from Memel to Baden. Yet the only agreement amongst nationalists seemed to be that the current state of affairs was intolerable. The nationalist right had boundless energy, biterness, hatred, and bile to pour upon the Weimar Republic, 'The Versailles Diktat' and the status quo in general, but it had no clear and united direction or leadership. It was a small ship afloat on oily waters. It was lamentable that Germany was ever in such a position, but there were no easy answers on how to reverse the situation. Germany needed a man of absolute action, determination and resolve to bind the country together and blast it forward, as there had been under Bismarck. But no such man appeared to exist.
A Freikorps group.
The truth is, of course, that great men are not born, but made in their struggle towards power. Political genius is only detected when it has the power to flex itself, and then it no longer needs to be searched for. So it would be with Germany. Accidents, slips of fate, and pure chance would create a basis for German greatness once again. And it would be those same accidents in other great nations which would help propel Germany to a position of power and prestige by contrast. Just as Germany had seemed to suffer from a defecit of luck in the Great War, so it would seem, in the coming years, to suffer from a great surplus; a relatively stable place amongst a Europe of misery and oppression.
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