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Title: The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner ISBN: 0-674-55775-1 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: solid objective review from a great German Historian
Comment: this is clearly the best book I 've read on Hitler. Very unbiased and focused, the author reviews the successes and opportunities as well as the mistakes, errors and crimes of this greatest politician maybe of all times.
Haffner (the author) is able to take a look at ideas, and ideologies from a very neutral viewpoint and talk about them intelligently without emotional bias ("this is bad because Hitler believed in it"). If you want to understand the strange phenomenum -Hitler, this book is a must.
Rating: 5
Summary: razor sharp analysis
Comment: A book written during the Cold War (1977) by a German journalist who emigrated to the UK in 1938 and worked there for most of his life. In a thin book Sebastian Haffner is capable of gving a razor sharp analysis of Hitler's successes and shortcomings. In 7 chapters he discusses his life, achievements, successes, mistakes, failures, crimes and finally treason.
De book has as hypothesis that Hitler's actions could only lead to the ultimate defeat, but also that he tried to aggravate this defeat to make it as heavy as possible for the German people who had deserted him. Hitler had a two-pronged approach: on the one hand he wanted to fight a war for world rule, one the other hand he wanted to destroy as many Jews (and gipsies and homosexuals and mentally ill people) as possible. This last aim was in conflict with the first one because the people and infrastructure necessary for this left his generals with unsolvable problems. Also, Haffner shows that there were 2 opportunities (1938 and 1940) when Hitler could have come out with an enormous gain in territory if he could have been content with what he had achieved.
The only minor drawback of the book is in my opinion that, even though Hitler was the one who took all the decisions, he needed people to execute these decisions. Haffner brushes aside this side of things a little too easy, leaving Hitler as the sole criminal. Despite this drawback, this is till a very intriguing book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book on Hitler
Comment: I read this book several years ago in Dr. Blakemore's History of Germany Class at Mary Washington College. I still often refer to the book. Short and to the point the book shows beyond a doubt how Hitler destroyed Germany. Not only is this a good look at Hitler and the Nazis but the book destroys the myth that Hitler did some good for Germany. This book shows the true Hitler and the terrible things he did. Again, there are many good books on Hitler: Toland's work, Study in Tyranny by Bullock, Explaining Hitler, etc. but for a quick read, and a informative one, read this book.
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Title: Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner, Oliver Pretzel ISBN: 0312421133 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century by V.R. Berghahn ISBN: 0521347483 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Nations At Dawn (Formerly Titled: Nations In Darkness) by John G Stoessinger ISBN: 0070616264 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $48.65 |
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Title: Every War Must End by Fred Charles Ikle ISBN: 0231076894 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Pacific War, Nineteen Thirty-One to Nineteen Forty-Five: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II by Saburo Ienaga ISBN: 0394734963 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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