- 320 pages
- English
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Young Hitler
About This Book
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just twenty-five years old. It was a time he would later call the "most stupendous experience of my life." That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world he eventually opened his newly healed eyes to was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled, and the army had been resolutely humbled. By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record, and his early political career, Paul Ham seeks the man behind the myth. More broadly, Ham asks the question: Was Hitler's rise to power an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogueâa politician who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Prologue: A little context
- 1 âAt the time I thought everything should be blown upâ
- 2 âAt home I do not remember having heard the word Jewâ
- 3 âI had honoured my father, but my mother I had lovedâ
- 4 âThe whole academy should be dynamitedâ
- 5 âIs this a German?â
- 6 âI fell down on my knees and thanked Heavenâ
- 7 âI passionately loved soldieringâ
- 8 âLouvain was a heap of rubbleâ
- 9 âI was right out in front, ahead of everyoneâ
- 10 âYou will hear much more about meâ
- 11 âAt last my will was undisputed masterâ
- 12 âFor the last time the Lordâs grace smiled on His ungrateful childrenâ
- 13 âSince the day I stood at my motherâs grave, I had not weptâ
- 14 âWhat was all the pain in my eyes compared to this misery?â
- 15 âI could speak!â
- 16 âThe movement was on the marchâ
- 17 âThe world of the woman is the manâ
- 18 âYou must fight with me - or die with me!â
- 19 âIf fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters had been held under poison gas . . .â
- Epilogue: The making of the FĂźhrer
- Appendix: The German National Socialist â25-point Programmeâ
- Notes and References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Index
- Also by Paul Ham
- Copyright