The Meaning of Hitler

This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitler-who he was, how he wielded power, and why he was destined to fail.
Beginning with Hitler's early life, 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 Hitler's 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 German?

About the author

Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Haffner, Sebastain Haffner, Sebastian Haffner
• Assisted by: Ewald Osers (Translation), Osers Ewald (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1983
• EAN: 9780674557758
• ISBN: 978-0-674-55775-8
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Fascism & Nazism, Far-right political ideologies and movements