Hitler : only the world was enough

Biografie

Zusammenfassung: For generations we have been hypnotised by the catastrophic, implausible way that Hitler came to seize power - the familiar story of the innumerable obstacles which fell aside to allow such a strange figure to rule a major European state. Brendan Simms's major new biography has a very different focus. It is the first attempt fully to get to grips with the true origins of Hitler's ideas themselves. Simms focuses on what those ideas really were and how they emerged. This gives a very different picture of Hitler, highlighting both how deeply he had always reflected wider (and now forgotten) paranoid geopolitical German concepts, as well as what was original, particularly Hitler's obsession with the United States (which loomed far greater in his imagination than the Soviet Union). It was this poisonous mix which was to have such a terrible impact on Europe's future. Brendan Simms's new book is the first to take these beliefs seriously, demonstrating how, as ever, it is ideas that are the true source of the most murderous behaviour.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781846142475 ; 1846142474
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: xxv, 668 Seiten
• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Hitler, Adolf

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): London
• (who): Allen Lane an imprint of Pinguin Books
• (when): [2019]
• Creator: Simms, Brendan

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1205169881/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.06.2025, 2:18 PM CEST