Becoming Hitler : the making of a Nazi / Thomas Weber
"An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader. In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years w...
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| Main Authors: | Weber, Thomas, 1974- |
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| Formato: | Livro |
| Idioma: | English |
| Publicado em: | New York : Basic Books, July 2017 |
| Edição: | First edition |
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| Acesso em linha: | rezensiert in: Francia-Recensio; 2018/2 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Resumo: | "An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader. In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred. In Becoming Hitler, Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue"... |
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| Descrição do item: | Rezensiert in: German history volume 36, number 3 (2018), Seite 474-476 (Hermann Beck, University of Miami) |
| Descrição Física: | xxiii, 422 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780465032686 |
