Hitler before the war

Review of The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a nation by Richard J. Evans

In 1979, the father of a German friend said to me: “if Hitler hadn’t gotten us into the war, he would have been a great man in our history.” Since then, I have been searching for a book on how the Nazis governed Germany, particularly during 1933-39. Hitler’s rise and Germany’s fall have been covered, the domestic political front much less so. How well, …