| The Life And Death of Adolf Hitler
(1973)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Biography; Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 |
| Publication Date |
1973 |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Publisher |
Praeger |
| Extras |
Diskette; Dust Jacket |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
DD247.H675 .P346 1974 |
| Dewey |
943.086/092/4 |
| No. of Pages |
623 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
DJ is price clipped, text block clean and tight. Previous owners name on title page.
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I've read quite a few biographies, including biographies of monstrous people such as Lenin and Stalin. This is the first book that gave me the heebie-jeebies while reading it. Words fail me here; that last sentence doesn't quite describe what I felt. That feeling left me as I worked through the text. I've been reading about World War II for half a century or so, so I'm quite familiar with Hitler's work, the things he caused to have done. But I didn't know his story up to his ascension to power. When I read of the instances where Hitler was suicidal and people talked him out of killing himself, I felt... dirty. (Again, not the best description.) Of course, those people couldn't have known that by talking Hitler out of suicide they condemned fifty million people to death. But still.
I often say that although history doesn't repeat, it sometimes echoes or rhymes. In the last chapter, we read, "Even when [Hitler] lied outrageously, and they knew he was lying, the Germans preferred to believe his lies rather than face the consequences of truth." I can't help but to compare this with recent events. A significant portion of Americans believes the outrageous lies of Trump to the point of supporting an insurrection.
Includes photos, index, notes, and bibliography, although I think the notes (at 6 or 7 pages) are not as thorough as I expect from this sort of work. |
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