After centuries of Imperial rule, in the year 1918, at the end of World War One; the German Kaiser, Wilhelm 2nd, had fled into exile in Holland. The Hohenzollern Empire was dead; this was a difficult thing for the German people to accept. As Germany tried to adjust to the fact that their country had lost the war and was now a democratic republic; not everyone in Germany believed in democracy. There were powerful and ruthless forces at work, as greedy, ambitious men plotted to overthrow the new fledgling Weimar rebublic. In a treacherous power game, there were plots and counter plots, attempted coups and counter coups: murders and kidnappings were happening daily. This book explores how the Nazis waged a clever and savage campaign, before they achieved power in 1933.