num_pages: 165
description: This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitler--who he was, how he wielded power, and why he was destined to fail.Beginning with Hitler's early life, Sebastian Haffner probes the historical, political, and emotional forces that molded his character. In examining the inhumanity of a man for whom politics became a substitute for life, he discusses Hitler's bizarre relationships with women, his arrested psychological development, his ideological misconceptions, his growing obsession with racial extermination, and the murderous rages of his distorted mind. Finally, Haffner confronts the most disturbing question of all: Could another Hitler rise to power in modern Germany?
language: English
title: The Meaning of Hitler
titlecomplete: The Meaning of Hitler
genres: Germany, Politics, Biography, Nazi Party, German Literature, War, Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 1936
publisher: Harvard University Press