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Record Nr.

UNISA996248335703316

Autore

Miskolczy Ambrus

Titolo

Hitler's library [[electronic resource] /] / Ambrus Miskolczy ; [English translation by Ridey Szilvia and Michael Webb]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, c2003

ISBN

978-615-5053-92-4

978-6-15505-392-4

9786155053924

615-5053-92-8

1-281-37662-0

9786611376628

0-585-49242-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Disciplina

943.086/092

Soggetti

HISTORY / Military / World War II

Electronic books.

Germany History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Hitler’s Erudition and Reading Habits -- Chapter 2. Books That Hitler Read: Penciled Notes Attest -- Chapter 3. Books That Hitler Read Into -- Chapter 4. Books That Hitler Did Not Read (In Depth) -- Chapter 5. Hitler’s Works -- Chapter 6. On the Führer’s Taste: Artistic Albums and Catalogues -- Epilogue. Farewell to the World of Hitler and His Library -- Selected Bibliography -- Name Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first book to present the so-called Hitler Library. It sheds new light on the readings of Hitler and on his techniques how to read a book. Hitler presented himself as an ideal reader of Schopenhauer, nevertheless his remarks destroy that image, particularly if we see how he read Ernst Jünger, Richard Wagner, or Paul de Lagarde, and how he reread Mein Kampf.The book describes the gnostic character of the phenomenon as an explication of the success of nazism and that of the



Hitler myth and challenges the static views of traditional historiography.