Last Stop Vienna

Last Stop Vienna is a sensational novel by Andrew Nagorski about the early years of the Nazi movement in Germany, published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster in the United States.

The protagonist, the young German Karl Naumann, comes into contact with a group of right-wing youths and Freikorps units in post-war Berlin after the loss of his father and brother, who were killed in World War I.

His mentor Otto Strasser sends him to Munich, where he is to make contact with the nascent National Socialist movement and its leader Adolf Hitler.

In Bavaria, Karl Naumann gets close to the SA and Hitler Youth structures, and meets prominent Nazi activists.

According to Publishers Weekly: A former Berlin bureau chief for Newsweek, Nagorski captures the city faithfully, convincingly imagining the to and fro of everyday life in the 1920s.