Dagboek van hitler biography

Op 30 januari 1933 werd Hitler met de hulp van rechts-conservatieve politici rijkskanselier van Duitsland.
Dagboeken van Mussolini.
Adolf Hitler has his roots in Waldviertel, a predominantly rural area in the north of Lower-Austria butting on the Bohemian border.

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Het verstoorde leven: dagboek van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

March 29, 2014

Non era il libro che mi aspettavo, così intensamente privato, intimo, all'inizio mi ha dato assai fastidio fare da voyeur della parte più personale della vita di qualcuno, una cosa che rifuggo sempre e trovo molto noiosa, oltre che disdicevole. Ma piano piano, tra turbamenti psicologici, dilemmi sentimentali e vita quotidiana, Etty mi ha conquistata. Il diario che scrive è parte della terapia psicanalitica che sta seguendo presso Julis Spier – uno psicochirologo tedesco fuggito in Olanda all'avvento del Nazismo, un uomo complesso, molto affascinante, con il quale all'inizio Etty ha un rapporto professionale, poi sempre più stretto, tanto che i due diventano inseparabili, innamorati, amanti, sporadicamente conviventi. Perché Etty convive more uxorio con un vedovo, a cui la lega una familiarità e un affetto profondo, ma ciò non le impedisce di innamorarsi follemente di S., come lo chiama sempre nei Diari, il quale è a sua volta fidanzato con una donna misteriosa, di cui si sa pochissimo, che vive a Londra.

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Mein Kampf (Paperback)

Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the most notorious political tract of the twentieth century, a mixture of unreliable autobiography and half-baked political philosophy, which brought tragedy to Germany and the world.

Mein Kampf is an evil book, but it remains neccessary reading for those who seek to understand the Holocaust, for students of totalitarian psychology and for all who care to safeguard democracy.

This edition contains a new introduction of D.C.Watt, Professor of International History at the University of London, which analyses Hitler's background, gives the origins and history fo the book, and ends with a critical assesment both of Hitler's incoherent ideas and his ruthless understanding of politcial power.

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Introduction

If there is one person who has made a huge impact on the history of the 20th century, it is undoubtedly Adolf Hitler. Up until today, interest in Hitler and his Third Reich is still great, witnesssed by the never ending flow of books about the dictator. The urge is great to understand how it is possible that one man could rally such masses of people, that one person could exert such a devastating influence on human history.

Yet, that is an incomplete approach. Adolf Hitler cannot be explained solely from the personality of Hitler himself. Although it is difficult to overestimate his role, it must be prevented that everything be traced back to Hitler alone. As German historian Joachim Fest wrote about the Nazi leader in his exhaustive biography: "the overall circumstances, the relation, difficult to decypher, between the man and his time and between the time and the man," must be considered in particular. We can find a similar notion with British Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw. He argued that Hitler could do as he did because many Germans were keen to help him.