The six years of the so-called peace period of Nazi rule (1933 - 1939) are one of the most condensed and eventful epochs in history. Magnus Brechtken provides an optimized overview of the key events, social developments, and the process of radicalization. Through thematically structured chapters covering ideology, power techniques, foreign policy, economy and labor, racial policy and persecution, expulsion and emigration, as well as art, culture, and science, he achieves a comprehensive presentation of Nazi rule from the rise to power to the beginning of World War II. In doing so, he also offers a concise interpretation of this era, primarily based on the analysis of the interplay between power pragmatism and the implementation of Nazi ideology.