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Hitler: Profiles in Power

Autor Ian Kershaw
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2000
Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler's power, and how he used it.
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ISBN-13: 9780582437562
ISBN-10: 0582437563
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 132 x 208 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Routledge
Seria Profiles in Power

Locul publicării:Harlow, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface Introduction I. POWER OF THE 'IDEA' II. GETTING POWER III.REPRESSION AND POWER IV.PLEBISCITARY POWER V. EXPANSION OF POWER VI.ABSOLUTE POWER VII. HUBRIS OF POWER Conclusion Further Reading Chronology Abbreviations Index

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Hitler'...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether
general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler's power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it
Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by
the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler's dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF's Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF's series in preparation on the Holocaust.


Notă biografică

IAN KERSHAW is the author ofHitler 1889-1936: Hubris;Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis;Making Friends with Hitler;andFateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-4.Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesisreceived the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. Until his retirement in 2008, Ian Kershaw was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. He was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly biography that only a first-rate historian can write
The Hitler biography for the twenty-first century
I cannot imagine a better biography of this great tyrant emerging for a long while
Magisterial ... anyone who wishes to understand the Third Reich must read Kershaw, for no one has done more to lay bare Hitler's morbid psyche
For the present generation, Kershaw's Hitler stands out as a clear beacon of truth, illuminating a dark age of terror and mendacity
The definitive biography of the Führer
An achievement of the very highest order
Mesmerizing ... presents the twentieth century's most controversial life in a single sweep