Download or read book Germany, 1866-1945 written by Gordon Alexander Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pays close attention to the people, parties, and pressure groups that influenced German policy in foreign and domestic matters. Half the book is devoted to the crucial period folowing the collapse of Germany in World War I. The author deals with Weimare Germany in all its contradictory elemetns and show how forces at work before and during the war combined with postwar conditions to sap the strength of the German republic and so brought Hitler's Nazi regime to power.