Hitler's World View
A Blueprint for Power
Published on 1. May 1981
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-674-40425-0 (ISBN)
Description
Even the demonic Hitler had a comprehensive philosophy, and Eberhard Jaeckel probes deeply into the dictator's mind to determine how he viewed the world.
Reviews / Votes
[Jaeckel's] critique of the self-contradictions historical research has brought upon itself by abandoning systematic analysis and relying instead on intuitive judgments and the obiter dicta of ex-Nazis such as Hermann Rauschning is cogent and convincing. So also is his analysis of the development of Hitler's ideas from the 'conventional foundations' with which he began in 1920. -- Geoffrey Barraclough * New York Review of Books * A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler's world view-the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career-is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jaeckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book fills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination. -- H. R. Trevor-RoperMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
None
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-40425-0 (9780674404250)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Foreword by Franklin L. Ford Translator's Foreword Chapter I. The Problem of a National Socialist Weitanschauung II. The Outlines of Foreign Policy Ill. The Elimination of the Jews IV. The State as a Means to an End V. The View of History as a Synthesis VI. From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary Notes