Hitler (Harvest Book)
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A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler as become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence to absolute…
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This remains the outstanding full-length biography of Hitler, not least because it is brilliantly written; it is also extraordinarily prescient.
Fest’s portrayal of the Nazi leader, the first to be written by a German, shows how any human society, no matter how cultured or educated, if far enough degraded and humiliated will be willing to listen to a banal, humourless bully whose singular obsessions were to pick at Germany’s war wounds and delegate the slaughter of the blameless minority he deemed responsible.
In Fest’s hands, Hitler emerges as no freak of nature with god-like powers, no monster beyond our comprehension…but…
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