The Meaning of Hitler .epub

Author(s): Sebastian Haffner
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Date: 1983-03-15 Format: EPUB Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0674557751
Pages: 176 OCR: Quality: ISBN13: 9780674557758

This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitlerwho he was, how he wielded power, and why he was destined to fail.

Beginning with Hitlers 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 Hitlers 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?