Bibliograph

Young Hitler, the making of the Führer, Paul Ham

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Young Hitler, the making of the Führer, Paul Ham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (273-290) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Young Hitler

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1005690423

Responsibility statement

Paul Ham

Sub title

the making of the Führer

Summary

A rigorous narrative analysis probes into the childhood, war experiences, and early political career of Adolf Hitler to assess how his defining years affected his rise to power

Table Of Contents

Prologue: A little context... -- "At the time I thought everything should be blown up" -- "At home I do not remember having heard the word Jew" -- "I had honoured my father, but my mother I had loved" -- "The whole academy should be dynamited" -- "Is this a German?" -- "I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven" -- "I passionately loved soldiering" -- "Louvain was a heap of rubble" -- "I was right out in front, ahead of everyone" -- "You will hear much more about me" -- "At last my will was undisputed master" -- "For the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children" -- "Since the day I stood at my mother's grave, I had not wept" -- "What was all the pain in my eyes compared to this misery?" -- "I could speak!" -- "The movement was on the march" -- "The world of the woman is the man" -- "You must fight with me--or die with me!" -- "If fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters had been held under poison gas..." -- Epilogue: The making of the Führer -- Appendix: The German National Socialist "25-point programme."

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