The story of how Adolf Hitler created his 'Führer dictatorship' -- consistently and ruthlessly destroying everything that stood in his way, and with with terrifying and almost limitless power over the German people.
Examines biographies of Adolf Hitler and their authors to reassess the reality of Hitler's life and his place in the history of the twentieth century Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths ...
Seeks to pinpoint the source of Hitler's appeal to German society during the nineteen thirties through an examination of his speeches, writings and conversations
... 204-5 Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von: commands Army Group West in France, 90; meets Turkish delegation, I 18; ... 228; and burning of Chancellery and official documents, 240–1; fails to return to Berlin, 241 Scheel, Gustav Adolf, ...
How Hitler Could Have Won World War II untangles some of the war's most confounding strategic questions, including: * Why didn't the Nazis concentrate their enormous military power on the only three beaches the Allies could use to launch ...
Forster was summoned to Berchtesgaden on 7 August and returned to announce that the Führer had reached the limits of his patience with the Poles, who were probably acting under pressure from London and Paris.
Thus , the Stern reporters called upon the city manager of Independence , Missouri , Keith Wilson , a wealthy attorney in his mid - fifties and heir to a lumber fortune , who offered dinner with a heavy silver service used by Hitler on ...
A large number of German intellectuals, including Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, Max Scheler, Friedrich Naumann, Walther Rathenau, and Adolf von Harnack, to name just a few, subscribed to what was called by ...
Traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews.
An absolute classic of autobiography and history - one of the few books to explore how and why the Germans were seduced by Hitler and Nazism.
Plöckinger, Geschichte, 33, footnote to Paula Schlier, Petras Aufzeichnungen, (Innsbruck: Brenner-Verlag, 1926), 136. Hemmrich, “Adolf Hitler,” 16. Facsimile of letter in Toland, Adolf Hitler, 224–25. Hess, Briefe, 332.