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Hitler
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"The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler." â
Time
A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era.
Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, postâWorld War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Perhaps most importantly, he also brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality that aimed for and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale.
As history and biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it: "dispassionately, but from the inside" ( Time).
A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era.
Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, postâWorld War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Perhaps most importantly, he also brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality that aimed for and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale.
As history and biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it: "dispassionately, but from the inside" ( Time).
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Hitler and Historical Greatness
- An Aimless Life
- Background and Departure
- The Shattered Dream
- The Granite Foundation
- The Flight to Munich
- Redemption by War
- The Great Dread
- The Road to Politics
- A Part of the German Future
- Local Triumphs
- Challenging the Powers that Be
- The Putsch
- The Long Wait
- The Vision
- Crises and Resistances
- Deployment for Battle
- The Time of Struggle
- From Provincial to National Politics
- The Landslide
- At the Gates of Power
- At the Goal
- German Catastrophe or German Consistency?
- Seizure of Power
- Legal Revolution
- On the Way to the FĂŒhrer State
- The Röhm Affair
- The Years of Preparation
- The Age of Faits Accomplis
- View of an Unperson
- The âGreatest German in Historyâ
- Unleashing the War
- The Wrong War
- Victors and Vanquished
- The Generalissimo
- The Third World War
- Lost Reality
- Catastrophe
- Oppositions
- GötterdÀmmerung
- The Dead End
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes