Hitler Biography Book

For obvious reasons, the author worked on a complete description of the life of the German Fuhrer, considering the sources of information, the work of predecessors and the concept comprehensively. It is important to understand the full completion of the second volume about the period from the city, before writing the biography of Hitler, Kershaw has already become known thanks to a number of monographs on the history of Germany, other books and research came out from under his pen, and the collected material became the starting point for subsequent work on the topic already in the 21st century.

Thus, I distinguish three periods in Kershaw's career. After the famous conference at Cumberland Lodge in the year, where prominent historians of his era led the debate about the differences in the study of the history of the Nazi Germany, Kershaw replaces the emphasis of their attention from the history of the Middle Ages with modern history. During this period, Kershaw writes several academic works and publishes a number of books about the Third Reich, the political mentality of the Germans.

He writes then about Hitler. Image and Reality in the Third Reich. On the contrary, its authority among prominent historians studying the Third Reich and Hitler increased in x. Book Hitler. The Hitler power profile: A Profile in Power has seen light in the year and today is considered more often as a reduced short version of the future expanded biography. Having acquired the status of an academic star, with the release of two volumes of Hitler’s biography, Kershaw continues to use the developments of the last two decades, addressing, again and again, to the history of Germany and Europe.

He writes a book on the attempt on Hitler on July 20 and the last weeks of the German Fuhrer in a bunker in Berlin. It issues an abbreviated one -volume edition of Hitler's biography on pages with notes. At the moment, the last work of the author is the history of Europe with the city of Roller-Coaster: Europe. One obvious reason that combines the motives of many modern historians to return to long -described topics is the all kinds of information available to sources of information.

And we are not only about the dozens of Hitler’s surroundings, which actively came out back in the 10th years, half a century after the end of the war. Just by Jan Krshaw calls them with special attentiveness and critical issues. But about the array of primary sources on the history of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party, personally Hitler and the Third Reich.

In particular, the multi -volume collection of stenography of Adolf Hitler's speeches during his political career, from beer Munich to the bunker under the office in the last days of the war. In this sense, even if there was work about Hitler, Kershaw's work has become the most authoritative among them. Was the twentieth century the century of Hitler?

Definitely, no other personality laid a greater imprint on our century than Adolf Hitler did. Twelve years of Hitler's reign forever changed Germany, Europe and the whole world. He is one of the few historical personalities, which can be said with all confidence: without it, history would have developed differently. Biography vs. Social history by Jan Krshaw himself notes that just a few years before the start of work on the book, he did not imagine himself for many years of work on the classical biography.

In this sense, his monumental work on Hitler is closest to the cult biography of Joachim Fest, who saw the light a quarter of a century before and inspired Kershaw. One of the key empirical issues that the book poses to the author and reader - how is Hitler become possible? Not just like this specific person, a beginner artist from Vienna and the Bohemian Corporal, was able to get the first post in Germany in importance.

But how his power in the country became absolute, and world history was forever blocked. Hitler’s story should be considered as the history of his power. How he managed to achieve her, as her essence was, how he experienced her for strength, which he was allowed to expand him until the constitutional dogmas were violated, why the resistance of this power was so insignificant. But these issues should be addressed to German society, and not just in Adolf Hitler.

The answer to how Hitler was, why he became so and how his practically unlimited power in Europe became possible, Jan Kershaw is looking for in society, as if in a tree, the fruit of which was the Nazi leader. In order to endure the proper lessons from the days of the past, it is not enough to simplify Adolf Hitler to the label of a crazy, obsessed speaker, vagabonds from Vienna, Bohemian Corporal, Fanatics or Anti -Semite.

Hitler's personality can be fully disclosed only through the analysis of sociocultural, historical, political, economic and military aspects, like them, in the period of the X cannot be considered fully without Hitler's participation. Hitler’s contribution to history can be evaluated only through the prism of the era, which gave rise to him and which he destroyed after.

The authoritative study of Hitler, as a person, thus, should become a reflection of the history of the Nazi era as a whole.Going into the history of the Empire, then the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, Yang Kershaw himself notes how important it is to observe a thin author’s line, dealing with a specific person. How close is the empathy, absolutely necessary for an attempt to understand Hitler’s internal motives, from sympathy, when we delve into the consciousness of a particular person, his passions, fears, views and the most striking dreams.

In his monumental work, Jan Kershaw gives Hitler’s era for the paradigm for the following aspects of the following aspects: the pretentiousness of the status of a modern dominant state is the highest level of suppression of public opinion and violence in relation to citizens by mobilization of public consciousness through the media space on unprecedented scale of a cynical violation of public law and neglect of diplomatic ethics.

nationalist views in society and in matters of foreign policy. Rasy intolerance and destructivism of the ideology of racial superiority. But such an approach should not be limited only to the ideological view of Hitler, his actions, his personal contribution to the development of events. Historians should place these elements related to Hitler in the context of social forces and political structures, which allowed and supported the development of a system, which largely relied on the absolute of personal power, with all the dramatic consequences that have entailed.

Despite tens of thousands of works about Nazi Germany, the Third Reich and Hitler personally, who have already seen the light up to a year, only individual works that can be counted on the fingers of two hands became bestsellers and deserve attention. Next, I would like to consider the five classic biographies of Hitler in the context of the parallels with the work of Jan Kershaw and his personal attitude to them.

Alan Bullock - Hitler. Study of tyranny. The author notes that he read the masterpiece of Alan Bullock while still a student. Later, according to the text of the book, Jan Kershaw notes that Hitler's early biography is different in a number of drawbacks. In the apps, Kershaw notes that Bullock himself subsequently completely reviewed his opinion regarding Hitler's personality.

Joachim Fest - Hitler. Again, the author himself pays tribute to monumental work, who examined Hitler in a sociocultural context, as he had not yet been done before the year when the book was published. The influence of Fest's book is universally felt while reading the work of Kershaw. According to the format, orientation towards the social, political and historical aspects of German and European history, these two works are very similar.

Along with this, the later work of Kershaw is more authoritative by definition, thanks to more fresh sources of information and, conversely, the departure of historians from dubious evidence and falsified documents. We will return the Mazer - Hitler. Myth and reality. Another well -known work about Adolf Hitler in the years. Kershaw actively turns to the work of Mazer, but to a greater extent as for example, using false sources.

In particular, an article about the Jewish roots of Hitler’s Jewish roots, Alois, does not withstand serious historical criticism, as the testimonies of Hitler, Patrick, who later recognized as dubious, Patrick, who later recognized as dubious, was taken. The same applies to allegedly visits by Hitler of relatives in the town of Spital in the year, to Mazer's mistakes in working with Hitler's entrance estimates, to accept August Kubichek mistakes in relation to Hitler's address in Vienna.

Thus, Kershaw more often leads to the work of Mazer in cases where his predecessors made mistakes or dubious sources were taken to faith. Yang Kershaw himself in the Gratitude section, among others, thanks his colleague Hamann for help in working on the book. Indeed, both labor are quite careful with dubious sources and undergo cross -checks, for example, Augusta Kubichek memoirs.

The heads of Kershaw about the childhood and the Viennese period of Hitler as a whole are very similar to the work of Hamman, and they complement each other. The background of the sociocultural situation in the city, the history of places related to Hitler, analysis of nationalist movements. Hamman's quotes are already advisory in nature to supplement information. John Toland is Adolf Hitler.

Another biography of Hitler in the years, which, like Bullock’s book, has been a twenty years before, became an international bestseller, awarded, without a smaller, Pulitzer Prize. Kershaw himself quite often refers to Toland's page work for the reason that John Twland spent more than two hundred interviews with people who knew Hitler personally or could provide information about him.

On the one hand, the book itself is in these places the primary source of information. On the other hand, Kershaw draws attention to the fact that a number of people's statements have changed over the years after the war, and that in general thirty, forty years and human memory could not serve as a reliable source of facts that should always be checked cross. The points in the controversial topics about Hitler since the countries of Yana Kershaw is considered today the most authoritative biographies of Adolf Hitler, it is obvious that the book should put fat dots in controversial topics, which, for decades have been the subject of speculation, the consequence of unverified information and the fruit of falsification of history.

Also, considering now the possible cross -test of the facts set forth in Hitler's early biographies, their many thousands of work on the topic, Kershaw is trying to let this line. The author honestly admits to the reader that the answers to some questions will never be found or reliably established and we remains to rely on the actual proven material and experience of historiography.

The author meticulously checks the evidence of the key, as is commonly believed, sources of information about Hitler's life in the early periods. In particular, no arguments of Hans Frank, former lawyer Hitler and Governor-General in occupied Poland, who he gave on the eve of the execution in Nuremberg, do not withstand any arguments. The allegedly given words of Hitler about his family and Geli Raubal are insinuations.

Kershaw actively quotes Augustus Kubichek and Rainhold Hanish, speaking of the Vienna period, but constantly indicates inaccuracies or obvious sublogging in their evidence. The book of Raushining Hitler says, for well -known reasons, to the falsifications of history that has nothing to do with reality, since Raushning never met Hitler to allegedly take an interview from him.

Hitler's grandfather was not a Jew on his paternal line. Kershaw is debunk the myth that Hitler’s grandmother, Maria Anna Schiklugber, became pregnant about the owner of the owner, working as a servant in the Jewish family of Frankenberger in Graz. Bringing historical documentation and casting doubt on the rumors of its absence in them, the author gives the following arguments in favor of the absurdity of the myth.

There is no data in favor of the fact that Maria has ever visited the city of Graz. In the historical region of Stiria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the state of years did not live at all for another three decades. At that time, the Frankenreiter family, not Frankenberger, lived in Graz, and they were the Austrians. In addition, their son, at the time of the birth of Alois Schiklugber, was only 10 years old.

There is no confirmation that there was a long -term correspondence between Anna Schiklugber and a certain family, as well as a manual, which was supposedly paid to her son under the age of fourteen. The Frankenreiter family itself lived in a constrained position and could not pay benefits. Initially, the myth of the Jewish roots of Adolf Hitler spread in beer Munich in X opponents of the Nazis, later the Communists and was nothing but rumors.

Allegedly, the memories of the former lawyer Hitler Hans Frank, which he gave during the trial in Nuremberg, do not withstand any criticism. In particular, his supposedly memories of a personal conversation with Hitler about grandfather, the search for evidence and the subsequent of their concealment. For example, Frank claimed that Hitler told him that his grandmother shared her story - Maria Shiklgruber died 42 years before the birth of Adolf Hitler and the latter could not share such information with Frank.

Frank's words about the letter that Hitler allegedly blackmail his nephew William Patrick in the middle of X, also cannot withstand critics. The young man could not know such details of the uncle’s family tree and safely lived in Germany up to a year. His subsequent revelations for the Paris newspaper in the year do not contain any mention of Hitler's grandfather and the fact of blackmail.