Le propos de l'auteur est de décrire ici non pas tant l'homme que la fascination qu'il exerça. Car pour Joseph Peter Stern, Hitler est un mythe fabriqué par Adolf Hitler lui-même et auquel celui-ci fut le premier à croire. Le langage de Hitler n'était pas uniquement celui du mysticisme nationaliste et raciste. Sa rhétorique ne reposait pas sur une maîtrise linguistique, une émotion contrôlée mais sur la combinaison et l'amoncellement d'images. Elle s'adressait à l'homme de la rue mais convenait aussi au spectacle politique : rassemblements de foules agitant des drapeaux sour le jeu des projecteurs. Il ne s'agissait plus d'une idéologie au sens strict du terme mais d'un mythe, d'une philosophie de l'histoire. Ce livre a valeur de leçon. Il montre toute la force d'un langage captieux et d'une violence insidieuse. Il indique qu'il suffit d'une volonté libre pour s'y opposer comme en témoigne l'action de certains résistants allemands.
... 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, ...
Originally published: Germany: S. Fischer Verlag.
they did, and having no choice, they have no responsibility, any more than a schizophrenic who hears delusory voices in his head urging ... duped into believing that they had trouble making the transition from “ordinary men” to killers.
Dr. Brandt returned to the Wolfsschanze on the twenty-ninth. Enthusiastic at the chance to finally unmask Morell as a charlatan, he managed to get into Hitler's room that afternoon. At first the patient took Brandt's denunciation ...
" Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents wined, dined, and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars.
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 ...
"From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939--a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself."--
317 in the guise: Police report, Illegale Fortführung des verbotene Organisationen, HA 68/1497, and David Jablonsky, The Nazi Party in Dissolution: Hitler and the Verbotzeit, 1923– 1925 (London: F. Cass, 1989), 48.
Included are vivid and unique descriptions of Hitler at school, his First World War battlefield experiences, the early political struggles, the full story behind the 9th November Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler in prison, and the struggle to power ...
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 ...