The meaning of Hitler

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Sebastian Haffner: The meaning of Hitler (1988, Weidenfeld and Nicolson)

165 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 1988 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

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978-0-297-79255-0
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I've never read anything like it. A relatively brief brilliant analysis - no footnotes, no references. The author lived in Germany during the war. Discusses Hitler's achievements, successes, mistakes and crimes. He uses achievement to mean an individual accomplishment, and success to mean an accomplishment in competition (Leistung and Erfolg?). Interesting commentary on the Nuremburg trials. My only complaints are that he holds that Hitler's brand of anti-semitism was alien to Germany and came from Eastern Europe, which seems unsupportable to me, and, in his conclusion, claims that Hitler was not a true German, unlike someone like Luther (?!...http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html)

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Subjects

  • Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945.