TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenbaum,Ron
TI  - Explaining Hitler: the search for the origins of his evil 
SN  - 0679431519
AV  - DD247.H5 R67 1998
U1  - 943.086/092B 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Hitler, Adolf,
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Austria
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Germany
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1933-1945
N1  - 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
N2  - 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?
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/97034468.html
ER  -