Hitler S Revolution

Drawing on over 200 German sources, Hitler's Revolution provides insight into the National Socialist ideology and how it changed Germany. The government's success at relieving unemployment and programs to eliminate class barriers unlock the secret to Hitler's undeniable popularity which, in light of war crimes, seems so incomprehensible today.

Drawing primarily from German language sources, this book describes the desperate social and economic conditions in Germany before Hitler took power in 1933, and the programs that his government introduced to alleviate widespread unemployment, political discord, social misery and national bankruptcy. A study of Hitler's foreign policy objectives focuses on the political climate in 1930's Europe, and the circumstances confronting Hitler that influenced his diplomacy. The book shows how during World War II, not only Germany's chauvinistic occupation policies, but traditional nationalist barriers among Europeans hampered German efforts to gain sympathy and support on the continent. The covert, systematic sabotage of Hitler's war effort by army officers opposed to National Socialism, a subject seldom addressed by military historians, is examined in detail. Liberally quoting from period publications, the book also provides a concise and understandable explanation of the National Socialist ideology, including its views on liberalism, democracy, communism, labor, race, education, free enterprise and world history. Evidence presented in the text is thoroughly documented, with 1,056 footnotes and a bibliography of over 200 published works

The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society.

Adolf Hitler is perceived to be the most evil political leader of twentieth-century Europe. By presenting a critical selection of primary source material this book examines Hitler's background and involvement in the rise of National Socialism, the government of the Third Reich, leadership of the Second World War in Germany and his psychology, to discuss Hitler's credentials as a revolutionary. This volume includes examination of: * the general characteristics of revolutions and revolutionaries * Hitler as agitator, dictator, deceiver and warlord * Hitler's architectural and artistic ambitions * Hitler's mind and personality. Hitler investigates what it was that motivated this national leader to commit such monstrosities which still cast a shadow over Europe today.

"Could another movement as powerful and as fanatical as the Hitler movement ever come to the fore again? Of the many works that describe and explore Nazism, few if any follow the approach of this book: that Nazi self-interpretations should be taken seriously as starting points for the analysis of National Socialism; and that it is, indeed, possible for a millenarian movement to be generated by any calamity, in any society. This book inquires into the nature and causes of the Nazi movement from the standpoint of classical Greek and Christian political theory. One of its premises is that National Socialism was a secular apocalyptic movement, probably similar to the religious apocalyptical uprisings of the Middle Ages and perhaps akin to the millenarianism of the apostle John" --Book jacket.

"In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are absolutely crucial for understanding the rise of antisemitism and eventually Nazism in Germany. Before 1918, Munich had a decidedly cosmopolitan flavor, but its open atmosphere was shattered by the November Revolution of 1918-19. Jews were prominently represented among many of the European revolutions of the late 1910s and early 1920s, but nowhere did Jewish revolutionaries and government representatives appear in such high numbers as in Munich. The link between Jews and communist revolutionaries was especially strong in the minds of the city's residents. In the aftermath of the revolution and the short-lived Socialist regime that followed, the Jews of Munich experienced a massive backlash. The book unearths the story of Munich as ground zero for the racist and reactionary German Right, revealing how this came about and what it meant for those who lived through it"--

American edition (New York, Alliance book corporation, Longmans, Green & co.) has title: The revolution of nihilism."First published in 1938, in German, under the title 'Die revolution des nihilismus' ... First published in English, June 1939. Reprinted July, September 1939."