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In 1937, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King travelled to Nazi Germany in an attempt to prevent a war that, to many observers, seemed inevitable. The men King communed with in Berlin, including Adolf Hitler, assured him of the Nazi regime's peaceful intentions, and King not only found their pledges sincere, but even hoped for personal friendships with many of the regime's top officials.
Four Days in Hitler's Germany is a clearly written and engaging story that reveals why King believed that the greatest threat to peace would come from those individuals who intended to thwart the Nazi agenda, which as King saw it, was concerned primarily with justifiable German territorial and diplomatic readjustments.
Mackenzie King was certainly not alone in misreading the omens in the 1930s, but it would be difficult to find a democratic leader who missed the mark by a wider margin. This book seeks to explain the sources and outcomes of King's misperceptions and diplomatic failures, and follows him as he returns to Germany to tour the appalling aftermath of the very war he had tried to prevent.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Crerar's Map of Berlin, 1937
Prologue: Values, Interests, and Foreign Relations
1. Of Lions and Lyons
2. Arrival
3. Beholding the Nazi Miracle
4. Shrugging Off the British Yoke
5. The Holy Errand
6. Sympathy for the Devil
7. Haunted Berlin
8. Arbeit Macht Frei
9. Whither the Jews?
10. The Uses and Abuses of Mackenzie King
11. Canada Makes Headlines!
12. Atavistic Beasts: Der Dicke and His Bison
13. Baiting Godwin's Law
14. The Interview
15. Savouring the Triumph, with an Assist from Verdi
16. Taking Leave
17. Home
18. Failure of a Mission, or The War That Harry Crerar Foretold
19. Aftermath
Epilogue: Perspectives
Notes
Bibliography
Index
