There is a strangeness to this work compared to the concept of the title. Rather than a history as to how the Nazis used and penetrated the govermental systems and structures of power they had obtained, this work is more akin to a journey inward. It is an anecdotal, social and/or oral history of ‘we the Germans’ during the rise of Nazism. There is a startling lack of policy history and examinations of bureaucratic tactics utilized by the nazi government other than KGB/chekist style tactics or general or well known events. The section on church history is rather interesting but all too brief and strangely contradictory. Overall, however, the anecdotal history becomes repetitive and tiresome. There is a gross lack of historical context. What is going on in the world as these thoughts take shape? It is almost as though Germany, in this history at least, existed in a great vacuum solely able to ponder it’s own psychological, economic and post WWI traumas. The utter struggle of the narrator attempting to pronounce German does not help either. Far better works can be found.