| Description |
xlvi, 444 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Baby Pictures and the Abyss -- Pt. 1. The Beginning of the Beginning. Ch. 1. The Mysterious Stranger, the Serving Girl, and the Family Romance of the Hitler Explainers. Ch. 2. The Hitler Family Film Noir. Ch. 3. The Poison Kitchen: The Forgotten First Explainers -- Pt. 2. Two Postwar Visions: Sincerity and Its Counterfeit. Ch. 4. H. R. Trevor-Roper: The Professor and the Mountebank. Ch. 5. Alan Bullock: Rethinking Hitler's Thought Process -- Pt. 3. Geli Raubal and Hitler's "Sexual Secret" Ch. 6. Was Hitler "Unnatural"? Ch. 7. Hitler's Songbird and the Suicide Register. Ch. 8. The Dark Matter: The Sexual Fantasy of the Hitler Explainers -- Pt. 4. Hatred: Complex and Primitive. Ch. 9. Fritz Gerlich and the Trial of Hitler's Nose. Ch. 10. The Shadow Hitler, His "Primitive Hatred," and the "Strange Bond" -- Pt. 5. The Art of Evil and the Future of It. Ch. 11. To the Gestapo Cottage; or, A Night Close to the Fuhrer. Ch. 12. David Irving: The Big Oops |
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Pt. 6. The War over the Question Why. Ch. 13. A Tale of Three Kafkas: A Cautionary Parable. Ch. 14. Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why. Ch. 15. Dr. Louis Micheels: There Must Be a Why -- Pt. 7. Blame and Origins. Ch. 16. Emil Fackenheim and Yehuda Bauer: The Temptation to Blame God. Ch. 17. George Steiner: Singling out the Jewish "Invention of Conscience" Ch. 18. Singling out Christianity: The Passion Play of Hyam Maccoby. Ch. 19. Daniel Goldhagen: Blaming Germans. Ch. 20. Lucy Dawidowicz: Blaming Adolf Hitler |
| Summary |
Examines the life of Adolf Hitler in this investigation into the questions surrounding his ancestry, sexuality and motivations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-424) and index |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Family.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Psychology.
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National socialism.
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| SUBJECT |
Austria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79040121 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
97034468 |
| ISBN |
0679431519 (alk. paper) |
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