The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich

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  • Author : Ian Kershaw
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780192802064
  • Edition : Reissue
  • ISBN : 0192802062
  • Is Eligible For Trade In? : Yes
  • Label : Oxford Paperbacks
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Oxford Paperbacks
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 320
  • Package Dimensions : 0.80 inches (Height) x 7.70 inches (Length) x 0.55 pounds (Weight) x 5.10 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2001-09-27
  • Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
  • SKU : FRBN-1a-92-9780192802064
  • Studio : Oxford Paperbacks

This study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, delves into Hitler's powerful hold over the German people. In this work, Ian Kershaw argues that it lay not so much in Hitler's personality or his bizarre Nazi ideology, as in the social and political values of the people.

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Before writing Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris the first volume of his substantial biography of Adolf Hitler, Ian Kershaw focused on the popular appeal of the Nazi dictator in The Hitler Myth. Arguing that "the sources of Hitler's appeal must be sought...in those who adored him, rather than in the leader himself," Kershaw shows how Hitler's public image welded together antagonistic forces within the Nazi state, mobilised the nation for war, and contributed to the ethos that animated systematic and genocidal violence. Responding to historians who maintain that Hitler's personality or ideological fixations accounted for his broad acceptance, Kershaw argues that, in the early 1930s a sizeable plurality of Germans hungered for an omnipotent Führer to stand above the political disharmonies of the Weimar state. Later, foriegn policy and military victories attracted many more to the Hitler legend. However, victories were the price for popularity; and Hitler became more and more bloodthirsty as both his image and regime foundered under the blows of the Allied powers. The Hitler myth, then--a cultural phenomenon the Reich Minister Joeseph Goebbels claimed as his greatest propaganda triumph--became a fundamental cause for the collapse of the Nazi State. Kershaw's authoritative history of political culture in Hitler's Germany forcefully demonstrates that the Führer's popularity rested less on "bizarre and arcane precepts of Nazi ideology, than on social and political values...recognisable in many societies other than the Third Reich." In our present political environment, which repeatedly features outcries for "leadership" from pundits and public servants alike, the disturbing lessons of The Hitler Myth are an urgent warning. --James Highfill

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