--- title: Timothy Ryback | TIME description: Ryback is the author of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power canonical: https://time.com/author/timothy-ryback/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/timothy-ryback/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Timothy Ryback ## Timothy Ryback Ryback is the author of [Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727483/takeover-by-timothy-w-ryback/) ## Timothy Ryback *  Apr 26, 2024 ### [Hitler's 37% Victory](https://time.com/6971088/adolf-hitler-take-power-democracy/) The vital lesson of how Adolf Hitler took advantage of democracy to become a dictator. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/timothy-ryback/","name":"Timothy Ryback"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/timothy-ryback/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/timothy-ryback/"},"name":"Timothy Ryback","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ryback is the author of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power","url":"https://time.com/author/timothy-ryback/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```