A treinta días del poder

Hitler is undoubtedly the most dramatically influential figure of the 20th century; to a great extent, from his tumultuous rise to power in January 1933, he charted a new course for the history not only of Germany or Europe, but of the entire world. And yet, as Ashby Turner tells us in this work, the chain of events and circumstances that led him to become chancellor could have been avoided. Because, in that year of 1933, Hitler was not a powerful figure on the German political scene, but rather the leader of a party in clear decline; he did not seize power, he merely played the cards that others dealt him with astutely, and he did not become chancellor as a result of an election, but by taking advantage of the mistakes, negligence, and infighting of those who were in a position to prevent it. The account of these events is what we find in Thirty Days from Power. In a meticulous and surprising way, Ashby analyzes what happened that January of 1933; How Hitler achieved a chancellorship that, in principle, did not belong to him, in a story that manages to convey all the tension and drama of some crucial days for humanity.