Nazis & Reds: A Chronology of the Prewar Years is the first book in The Protocols series, which chronicles the history of authoritarianism in the modern era. Because of its length, it is told in two parts. Part Two begins with the Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler, Goring, Himmler, Heydrich, Goebbels and others, purged the Nazi Party of opponents, as well as other enemies of the Third Reich. It also tells the continuing story of the rise of authoritarianism in the United States, and elsewhere in the world; of the rearmament of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, the Sudetenland Crisis, the Munich Pact, Hitler's betrayal of its terms, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, and the last days before the beginning of the Second World War. its focus, however, are the lives of ordinary people caught up in events. Like all the books in the series, Nazis & Reds Part Two is told as an interwoven narrative comprised of excerpts taken from diaries, memoires, histories, news and feature articles, radio transcripts, speeches, and other historical documents selected not only for their ability to illustrate the past, but for their relevance in terms of the times in which we live.