num_pages: 496
description: Hitler's Vienna explores the critical, formative years that the young Adolf Hitler spent in Vienna. It is both a cultural and political portrait of the Austrian capital and a biography of Hitler during his years there, from 1906 to 1913. Hitler's was not the modern, artistic "fin-de-siècleVienna" we associate with Freud, Mahler, and Wittgenstein. Instead, it was a cauldron of fear and ethnic rivalry and a breeding ground for racist political theories. Brigitte Hamann vividly depicts the undercurrent of disturbing ideologies that flowed beneath the glitter of the Hapsburg capital.Drawing on previously untapped sources that range from personal reminiscences to the records of homeless shelters where the unemployed Hitler spent his nights, Hamann gives us the fullest account ever rendered of this period of Hitler's life and shows us how profoundly his years in Vienna influencedhis later career.
language: English
title: Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship
titlecomplete: Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship
characters: Adolf Hitler
genres: 20th Century, History, German Literature, School, World War II, Biography, Germany, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 251
places: Vienna
publisher: Oxford University Press