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Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris - Ian Kershaw

Description: ISBN 0140133631 / Genre: History / Published by Penguin Books

Newest Review: ... In the telling, Kershaw's story turns out to be much less cloudily supernatural, with no presiding metaphysical justice. ... more

... Hitler survived as long as he did thanks to luck, and to the succession of minute mischances which baffled a series of would-be assassins. He made up military strategy as he went along a nd may have lost the war because of muddled tactics: if the Germans had reacted more swiftly on the Normandy beaches, Kershaw reckons, they might have beaten back the Allied invasion. This was no apocalyptic combat between good and evil. After all,...more

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Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris - Ian Kershaw: Moral Enigma (1061 words)
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More than a political phenomenon, Hitler is a psychological and moral enigma. How did an idle, talentless, disgruntled wastrel come to terrorise a continent? And what self-destructiveness in human nature begot this nihilist who was gleefully able to sentence millions of his men to death because he considered mankind to be nothing more than a grubby and imperfect 'cosmic bacterium'? The scale of the damage Hitler did - to his victims, to the world, and to our self-esteem as a species - makes us liable to aggrandise him. His followers thought of him as a divine being, a non-Christian saviour and redeemer; to his enemies, he was the devil incarnate, a ...

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