LEADER 04419nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910822368903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89698-2 010 $a0-8122-0441-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204414 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064697 035 $a(OCoLC)794700598 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641552 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606414 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413803 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606414 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581554 035 $a(PQKB)11394909 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8278 035 $a(DE-B1597)449352 035 $a(OCoLC)979740826 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204414 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441717 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641552 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420948 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441717 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064697 100 $a20110316d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHitler & America /$fKlaus P. Fischer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 356 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4338-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tHitler's Split Image of America --$tHitler Takes Risks and America Legislates Itself into Neutrality: 1933-1937 --$tHitler's Year: 1938 --$tHitler's War against the West: 1939-1941 --$tThe World Will Hold Its Breath: 1941 --$tThe Tide of War Shifts in Favor of Hitler's Opponents --$tProspects for a Separate Peace in 1943 --$tHitler and the "Unnatural Alliance": 1944-1945 --$t"This War against America Is a Tragedy" --$tHitler and the End of a Greater Reich. 330 $aIn February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production-especially in iron and coal, which formed the basis of modern industrial civilization. He also touted America's superiority in the field of transportation, particularly the automobile. He loved automobiles and saw in Henry Ford a great hero of the industrial age. Hitler's personal train was even code-named "Amerika."In Hitler and America, historian Klaus P. Fischer seeks to understand more deeply how Hitler viewed America, the nation that was central to Germany's defeat. He reveals Hitler's split-minded image of America: America and Amerika. Hitler would loudly call the United States a feeble country while at the same time referring to it as an industrial colossus worthy of imitation. Or he would belittle America in the vilest terms while at the same time looking at the latest photos from the United States, watching American films, and amusing himself with Mickey Mouse cartoons. America was a place that Hitler admired-for the can-do spirit of the American people, which he attributed to their Nordic blood-and envied-for its enormous territorial size, abundant resources, and political power. Amerika, however, was to Hitler a mongrel nation, grown too rich too soon and governed by a capitalist elite with strong ties to the Jews.Across the Atlantic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his own, far more realistically grounded views of Hitler. Fischer contrasts these with the misconceptions and misunderstandings that caused Hitler, in the end, to see only Amerika, not America, and led to his defeat. 517 3 $aHitler and America 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 607 $aGermany$xForeign relations$y1933-1945 607 $aGermany$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGermany 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 676 $a327.4307309/043 700 $aFischer$b Klaus P.$f1942-$01619105 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822368903321 996 $aHitler & America$93951187 997 $aUNINA