Rise of the NSDAP

The Party's Own Record

Rise of the NSDAP is a document-heavy account of the National Socialist German Workers' Party from the Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 through the seizure of power in January 1933. The material was assembled from the SS Main Office's internal records and files, giving the reader access to how the party understood and narrated its own history during the period of its consolidation.

What the Book Contains

The text covers the early days of the movement in Bavaria, the failed putsch and its aftermath, the party's reorganization during the mid-1920s, the development of the SA and SS, the election campaigns of the early 1930s, and the political maneuvering that brought Hitler to the chancellorship. Because the source material is internal, you get a perspective unavailable in most secondary histories: the party's own assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, its internal factional struggles, and the strategic decisions that shaped its path to power.

Primary Source Value

This is not a neutral history. It is a primary source document, translated and edited by Antelope Hill Publishing. The value lies precisely in its bias: understanding how a revolutionary political movement narrated its own rise is essential for serious students of the Weimar-Nazi transition. Read it as a document, not as an objective account.

About This Edition

Compiled by: SS Main Office
Publisher: Antelope Hill Publishing
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781956887716