HitlerA bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen language, Joachim Fest's Hitler is acclaimed as "the best single volume available on the tortuous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler" (Time). Ranks as a companion volume to Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Albert Speer's memoir Inside the Third Reich. |
Contents
Background and Departure | 13 |
The Shattered Dream | 24 |
The Granite Foundation | 36 |
Copyright | |
24 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adolf Hitler Albert Speer alliance Allied anti-Semitism army attack Bavarian began Berlin bourgeois British Brüning cabinet called campaign Chancellor commander Communist decision declared defeat Dietrich Eckart early election enemy England Ernst Röhm Europe fact fear force foreign France front Führer Gauleiter German Germany's Goebbels Göring Gregor Strasser headquarters Himmler Hindenburg Hugenberg idea ideological Jews July Kahr Kampf later leader leadership March masses meeting Mein Kampf military Minister mood movement Munich Mussolini National Socialism National Socialist nationalist Nazism never November NSDAP Obersalzberg officers once organization Papen plans Poland political President propaganda racial radical regime Reich Reichstag Reichswehr remark republic revolution revolutionary Richard Wagner Röhm Rudolf Hess Russia Schleicher seemed sense slogans Social Democratic Soviet Union speech Speer spoke struggle tactical tion took Treaty troops turned victory Vienna Völkische wanted whole