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The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Ian Kershaw
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Description for The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily powerful hold over the German people. In this 'major contribution to the study of the Third Reich' (Times Literary Supplement), 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 themselves. In charting the creation, rise, and fall of the `Hitler Myth', he demonstrates the importance ... Read more
Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily powerful hold over the German people. In this 'major contribution to the study of the Third Reich' (Times Literary Supplement), 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 themselves. In charting the creation, rise, and fall of the `Hitler Myth', he demonstrates the importance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192802064
SKU
V9780192802064
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About Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45 (OUP, 1983); (ed.), Weimar: Why did German Democracy Fail? (Weidenfeld, 1990); Hitler: A Profile in Power (Longman, 1991); The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Edward Arnold, 3rd edn, 1993); (ed., with Moshe Lewin), ... Read more
Reviews for The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Review from previous edition a book which should be read by everyone interested in the history of 20th-century Europe ... perhaps the most revealing study available of popular opinion in Nazi Germany
Times Higher Education Supplement
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