Well that explains quite a bit. Evans does a good job of tracing the development of the Nazi movement in Germany. It is also somewhat frightening to read this while the RNC was on.
Third of the way through - have come to the part that talks us through the Bavarian Soviet Republic under Kurt Eisner and how Hitler was there (Munich) in his late teens and later buddied up with Eisner's assassin, German nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley.Kurt Eisner