Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power / Edition 1

by Eberhard Jäckel, Herbert Arnold, Franklin L. Ford

Overview

Even the demonic Hitler had a comprehensive philosophy, and Eberhard Jäckel probes deeply into the dictator’s mind to determine how he viewed the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674404250
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1981
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword by Franklin L. Ford Translator's Foreword

Chapter

I. The Problem of a National Socialist

Weitanschauung

II. The Outlines of Foreign Policy

Ill. The Elimination of the Jews

IV. The State as a Means to an End

V. The View of History as a Synthesis

VI. From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary

Notes

What People are Saying About This

A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler's world view-the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career--is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jäckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book tills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination.

H.R. Trevor-Roper

A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler's world view-the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career--is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jäckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book tills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination.

Editorial Reviews

A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler’s world view—the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career—is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jäckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book fills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination.

H. R. Trevor-Roper

[Jäckel’s] critique of the self-contradictions historical research has brought upon itself by abandoning systematic analysis and relying instead on intuitive judgments and the obiter dicta of ex-Nazis such as Hermann Rauschning is cogent and convincing. So also is his analysis of the development of Hitler’s ideas from the ‘conventional foundations’ with which he began in 1920.

New York Review of Books - Geoffrey Barraclough

[Jäckel's] critique of the self-contradictions historical research has brought upon itself by abandoning systematic analysis and relying instead on intuitive judgments and the obiter dicta of ex-Nazis such as Hermann Rauschning is cogent and convincing. So also is his analysis of the development of Hitler's ideas from the 'conventional foundations' with which he began in 1920.--Geoffrey Barraclough "New York Review of Books"

A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler's world view--the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career--is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jäckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book fills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination.--H. R. Trevor-Roper

From the Publisher

A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler's world view-the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career—is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jäckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book tills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination.

H.R. Trevor-Roper

[Jäckel's] critique of the self-contradictions historical research has brought upon itself by abandoning systematic analysis and relying instead on intuitive judgments and the obiter dicta of ex-Nazis such as Hermann Rauschning is cogent and convincing. So also is his analysis of the development of Hitler's ideas from the "conventional foundations" with which he began in 1920.
— Geoffrey Barraclough

New York Review of Books