Explaining Hitler : the search for the origins of his evil / Ron Rosenbaum.
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- 0679431519
- 9780679431510
- 943.086/092 B 21
- DD247.H5 R67 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-424) and index.
Contenidos: Introduction: The Baby Pictures and the Abyss
Part One: The Beginning of the Beginning
The Mysterious Stranger, the Serving Girl, and the Family Romance of the Hitler Explainers
The Hitler Family Film Noir
The Poison Kitchen: The Forgotten First Explainers
Part Two: Two Postwar Visions – Sincerity and Its Counterfeit
H. R. Trevor‑Roper: The Professor and the Mountebank
Alan Bullock: Rethinking Hitler’s Thought Process
Part Three: Geli Raubal and Hitler’s “Sexual Secret”
Was Hitler “Unnatural”?
Hitler’s Songbird and the Suicide Register
The Dark Matter: The Sexual Fantasy of the Hitler Explainers
Part Four: Hatred – Complex and Primitive
Fritz Gerlich and the Trial of Hitler’s Nose
The Shadow Hitler, His “Primitive Hatred,” and the “Strange Bond”
Part Five: The Art of Evil and the Future of It
To the Gestapo Cottage; or, A Night Close to the Führer
David Irving: The Big Oops
Part Six: The War over the Question Why
A Tale of Three Kafkas: A Cautionary Parable
Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why
Dr. Louis Micheels: There Must Be a Why
Part Seven: Blame and Origins
Emil Fackenheim and Yehuda Bauer: The Temptation to Blame God
George Steiner: Singling out the Jewish “Invention of Conscience”
Singling out Christianity: The Passion Play of Hyam Maccoby
Daniel Goldhagen: Blaming Germans
Lucy Dawidowicz: Blaming Adolf Hitler
Afterword to the Updated Edition
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Ron Rosenbaum embarks on an investigative and philosophical journey to explore one of the most unsettling questions of the 20th century:
Why did Hitler do what he did?
Or more broadly: Can evil like Hitler’s be explained at all?
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