Four Days in Hitler's Germany

Robert Teigrob is a professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University.

"Brimming with rigorous, original research and startling detail." - Peter Black (Canada’s History) "[Four Days in Hitler’s Germany] is focused on providing relevant context for, and description of, the brief meetings that Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King had with Hitler and a number of his associates in late June 1937, particularly as revealed in King’s now famous Diaries. The book is much more than that, however, for the author gives us valuable side excursions into the architectural history of Berlin, the uses and abuses of heritage commemoration in the 1930s and after the war, the nature of the new ecological thought in Germany, and the social and racial values in Canada which helped shape much of King’s outlook."- Graham A. MacDonald (Prairie History) "This book is a valuable addition to the small subfield of Canadian international history, in which there is sadly little debate (in part because the pickings are so slim). […] Four Days in Hitler’s Germany should prompt some important reappraisals of Canada’s longest serving prime minister but also of Canadian history during this period, one where Nazism was not yet widely reviled."- Asa McKercher, Royal Military College of Canada (H-Transnational German Studies)

• List of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsGlossary Crerar's Map of Berlin, 1937Prologue: Values, Interests, and Foreign Relations1. Of Lions and Lyons2. Arrival3. Beholding the Nazi Miracle4. Shrugging Off the British Yoke5. The Holy Errand6. Sympathy for the Devil7. Haunted Berlin8. Arbeit Macht Frei9. Whither the Jews?10. The Uses and Abuses of Mackenzie King11. Canada Makes Headlines!12. Atavistic Beasts: Der Dicke and His Bison13. Baiting Godwin’s Law14. The Interview15. Savouring the Triumph, with an Assist from Verdi16. Taking Leave17. Home18. Failure of a Mission, or The War That Harry Crerar Foretold19. AftermathEpilogue: PerspectivesNotesBibliographyIndex