Young Hitler
Subtitle: the making of the Führer
By: Paul Ham
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781681777474
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; Heads of state; National socialism; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: A rigorous narrative analysis probes into the childhood, war experiences, and early political career of Adolf Hitler to assess how his defining years affected his rise to power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (273-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A little context...; title: "At the time I thought everything should be blown up"; title: "At home I do not remember having heard the word Jew"; title: "I had honoured my father, but my mother I had loved"; title: "The whole academy should be dynamited"; title: "Is this a German?"; title: "I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven"; title: "I passionately loved soldiering"; title: "Louvain was a heap of rubble"; title: "I was right out in front, ahead of everyone"; title: "You will hear much more about me"; title: "At last my will was undisputed master"; title: "For the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children"; title: "Since the day I stood at my mother's grave, I had not wept"; title: "What was all the pain in my eyes compared to this misery?"; title: "I could speak!"; title: "The movement was on the march"; title: "The world of the woman is the man"; title: "You must fight with me; title: or die with me!"; title: "If fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters had been held under poison gas..."; title: Epilogue: The making of the Führer; title: Appendix: The German National Socialist "25-point programme."