Time and again, small numbers of Germans. Perhaps most importantly, he also brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality that aimed for and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale.Īs history and biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it: "dispassionately, but from the inside" ( Time). Fest shows Hitler as the receptacle of the dreads and resentments of a shaken social order, gifted with an uncanny. PLOTTING HITLERS DEATH brings the full story of german resistance against the Nazis to a popular audience. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. In the prologue to his biography of Hitler, Joachim Fest performs an interesting speculative experiment. Joachim Fest is the author of several highly regarded, award winning books on Nazi Germany including Speer: The Final Verdict, Plotting Hitlers Deat. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post–World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into. 'The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler. "The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler." - TimeĪ bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era.įest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. Read 67 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
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