The meaning of Hitler /
Haffner, Sebastian, 1907-1999
The meaning of Hitler / Sebastian Haffner ; translated by Ewald Osers. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983, c1979. - 165 pages ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Anmerkungen zu Hitler. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1979.
This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitler―who he was, how he wielded power, and why he was destined to fail.
Beginning with Hitler’s early life, Sebastian Haffner probes the historical, political, and emotional forces that molded his character. In examining the inhumanity of a man for whom politics became a substitute for life, he discusses Hitler’s bizarre relationships with women, his arrested psychological development, his ideological misconceptions, his growing obsession with racial extermination, and the murderous rages of his distorted mind. Finally, Haffner confronts the most disturbing question of all: Could another Hitler rise to power in modern Germany?
0674557751 (pbk.)
82021346
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Heads of state--Biography.--Germany
DD247.H5 / H26513 1983
943.086/092/4 B
The meaning of Hitler / Sebastian Haffner ; translated by Ewald Osers. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983, c1979. - 165 pages ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Anmerkungen zu Hitler. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1979.
This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitler―who he was, how he wielded power, and why he was destined to fail.
Beginning with Hitler’s early life, Sebastian Haffner probes the historical, political, and emotional forces that molded his character. In examining the inhumanity of a man for whom politics became a substitute for life, he discusses Hitler’s bizarre relationships with women, his arrested psychological development, his ideological misconceptions, his growing obsession with racial extermination, and the murderous rages of his distorted mind. Finally, Haffner confronts the most disturbing question of all: Could another Hitler rise to power in modern Germany?
0674557751 (pbk.)
82021346
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Heads of state--Biography.--Germany
DD247.H5 / H26513 1983
943.086/092/4 B