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Author Roche, Helen, author

Title The "Hitler Myth" / Helen Roche
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series The Macat Library
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; WAYS IN TO THE TEXT; Who Is Ian Kershaw?; What Does The "Hitler Myth" Say?; Why Does The "Hitler Myth" Matter?; SECTION 1: INFLUENCES; Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context; Module 2: Academic Context; Module 3: The Problem; Module 4: The Author's Contribution; SECTION 2: IDEAS; Module 5: Main Ideas; Module 6: Secondary Ideas; Module 7: Achievement; Module 8: Place in the Author's Work; SECTION 3: IMPACT; Module 9: The First Responses; Module 10: The Evolving Debate; Module 11: Impact and Influence Today; Module 12: Where Next?
Glossary of TermsPeople Mentioned in the Text; Works Cited
Summary "Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people - many of whom had only marginal interest in or affiliation to Nazism - and the Nazi state. It took Ian Kershaw - author of the standard two-volume biography of Hitler - to provide a truly convincing solution to this problem. Kershaw's model blends theory - notably Max Weber's concept of 'charismatic leadership' - with new archival research into the development of the Hitler 'cult' from its origins in the 1920s to its collapse in the face of the harsh realities of the latter stages of World War II. Kershaw's model also looks at dictatorship from an unusual angle: not from the top down, but from the bottom up, seeking to understand what ordinary Germans thought about their leader. Kershaw's broad approach is a problem-solving one. Most obviously, he actively interrogates his evidence, asking highly productive questions that lead him to fresh understandings and help generate solutions that are credibly rooted in the archives. Kershaw's theories also have application elsewhere; the model set out in The 'Hitler Myth' has been used to analyse other charismatic leaders, including several from ideologically-opposed backgrounds."--Provided by publisher
Subject Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler-Mythos. English.
SUBJECT Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 fast
Subject National socialism -- Germany.
Nazis -- Germany
National socialism
Nazis
Germany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781912281572
1912281570