Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions Into the AbyssAt the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an inability to accept criticism, and a massive overconfidence in his own abilities. He was a socially and emotionally inadequate individual without direction, from whence came a sense of personal mission that would transform these weaknesses and liabilities into strengths--certainties that would provide him not only with a sense of identity, but of purpose in a communal enterprise. This is the focus of Laurence Rees's social, psychological, and historical investigation into a personality that would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans. (With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations) |
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User Review - KirkusA searching study that addresses the question, not why so many Germans and Austrians accommodated Adolf Hitler, but why they so ardently embraced him.Fresh from the news that the Nazi labor- and death ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PART ONE THE ROAD TO POWER | 7 |
Discovering a Mission | 9 |
Making a Connection | 21 |
Searching for a Hero | 33 |
Developing a Vision | 44 |
Offering Hope in a Crisis | 56 |
Being Certain | 68 |
The Lure of the Radical | 117 |
The Thrill of Release | 131 |
Turning Vision into Reality | 145 |
The Great Gamble | 179 |
Charisma and Overconfidence | 203 |
False Hope and the Murder | 232 |
Last Chance | 259 |
The Death of Charisma | 272 |
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| Title | Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions Into the Abyss |
| Author | Laurence Rees |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0307389588, 9780307389589 |
| Length | 354 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Political History / Europe / Germany History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism Psychology / Psychopathology / General |
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