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Hitler
by Ian Kershaw
You've read all these facts about Adolf Hitler before and there may be more analysed speeches than anecdotes about his favorite foods, but few authors could've melted 30.000 books on the subject(by the Library of Congress index) into one size. The amount of integrated German-language scholarship, indispensible to the subject, is equally staggering.
It doubles as an eagle-eye view of WWII, alltough it casts about less as fortunes turn at Stalingrad and retreats into a fantasy world that shrinks to a bunker.
In terms of psychoanalysis, the main points are there: the fixed personality of a gambler who interprets luck as providence when his uncanny ability to manipulate people or audacious tactics come up short. A mysantropic who, as the apocalyptic consequences of his failiures came home to roost, wanted to annihilate his entire country and people with him.
Did Hitler have a historical mission? Yes. In retrospect. As the ultimate "it can happen [here] again [now].
To be read without chewing every phrase.
It doubles as an eagle-eye view of WWII, alltough it casts about less as fortunes turn at Stalingrad and retreats into a fantasy world that shrinks to a bunker.
In terms of psychoanalysis, the main points are there: the fixed personality of a gambler who interprets luck as providence when his uncanny ability to manipulate people or audacious tactics come up short. A mysantropic who, as the apocalyptic consequences of his failiures came home to roost, wanted to annihilate his entire country and people with him.
Did Hitler have a historical mission? Yes. In retrospect. As the ultimate "it can happen [here] again [now].
To be read without chewing every phrase.