Adolf Hitler

Easton Press Adolf Hitler books

Mein Kampf - Books That Changed The World - 1994

 

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock - The Second World War Leaders - 2005

Hitler: 1889 - 1936 Hubris and Hitler : 1936-1945 Nemesis (2 volumes) by Ian Kershaw - 2005

This is Berlin by William L. Shier - 2001
The Rise and Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer - 2 volumes - 2001
Berlin Diary by William L. Shier - 1991
End of a Berlin Diary by William L. Shier - 1991

Adolf Hitler biography

Adolf Hitler, born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, was a German politician and dictator who would go on to lead the Nazi Party and become the Chancellor of Germany. His early life was marked by hardship and struggles. Raised in Linz, Austria, Hitler showed an early interest in art but faced numerous obstacles, including the death of his father and his mother's later demise. In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, Germany, hoping to pursue a career in art. However, with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he enlisted in the German Army. His experience in the war significantly influenced his political views, and he emerged from the conflict with a deep-seated resentment towards the Treaty of Versailles, which he believed humiliated Germany.

Hitler joined the German Workers' Party (DAP) in 1919, which later evolved into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), or the Nazi Party. He quickly rose through the ranks due to his charismatic speaking skills and ability to rally supporters. In 1923, Hitler attempted a failed coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, resulting in his arrest and imprisonment. During his time in jail, he wrote Mein Kampf, outlining his ideology and vision for Germany's future. After his release, Hitler focused on rebuilding the Nazi Party, capitalizing on the economic and political instability of the Weimar Republic. In 1933, he was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler wasted no time consolidating power and, in 1934, following Hindenburg's death, he merged the positions of Chancellor and President, declaring himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor) of Germany.

Hitler's regime rapidly transformed Germany into a totalitarian state, implementing anti-Semitic policies, suppressing opposition, and initiating a militarization program that violated the Treaty of Versailles. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and institutionalized discrimination.

World War II erupted in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies resulted in the invasion of numerous European countries, leading to widespread devastation and loss of life. The Holocaust, a systematic genocide aimed at annihilating the Jewish people, was carried out under Hitler's orders, resulting in the death of six million Jews. As the war turned against Germany, Hitler's military strategies faced setbacks. In April 1945, with the Allies closing in, Hitler retreated to his underground bunker in Berlin. Realizing the inevitable defeat, he committed suicide on April 30, 1945, bringing an end to one of the darkest chapters in human history.

World War II

Hitler's expansionist policies led to the invasion of Poland in 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Hitler's military strategies initially led to early successes, but as the war progressed, Germany faced significant defeats. As the Allies advanced on Germany, Hitler's military decisions and strategic errors contributed to the country's defeat. Facing imminent capture, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945. Adolf Hitler's actions during his time in power had devastating consequences, leading to the death and suffering of millions of people. His ideology and the crimes committed under his leadership remain some of the darkest chapters in human history. The atrocities committed during World War II, particularly the Holocaust, have led to a widespread condemnation of Hitler and the Nazi regime.

 

Holocaust

Hitler and the Nazi regime implemented a systematic genocide during the Holocaust, resulting in the mass murder of six million Jews, along with millions of others, including Romani people, disabled individuals, and political dissidents.

Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

Mein Kampf is an autobiographical and political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment following the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. The book, originally published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926, outlines Hitler's political ideology, beliefs, and his vision for Germany's future. Mein Kampf became a central text for the Nazi Party and played a significant role in shaping Hitler's rise to power.

Hitler began writing Mein Kampf while serving a relatively short prison sentence for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government. The book reflects his experiences, frustrations, and ideological development. Mein Kampf presents Hitler's anti-Semitic views. It promotes his vision of a racially pure Aryan state, where the Germanic "master race" would dominate. The book reflects his disdain for democracy, his belief in authoritarian rule, and his rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, which he considered a humiliation for Germany.

One of the most notorious aspects of Mein Kampf is its virulent anti-Semitism. Hitler blamed Jews for many of the world's problems, including economic difficulties, social unrest, and the defeat of Germany in World War I. The book laid the groundwork for the anti-Jewish policies that would later lead to the Holocaust.

Hitler's expansionist ideas, particularly the concept of Lebensraum (living space), are discussed in Mein Kampf. He argued that Germany needed to expand its territory to accommodate the growing Aryan population.

Mein Kampf served as a propaganda tool for the Nazi Party, helping to spread Hitler's ideas and gain support. It became required reading for members of the Nazi Party, and its distribution was widespread. After World War II, the Allied authorities initially prohibited the publication and distribution of "Mein Kampf" in Germany. However, the copyright expired, and the book entered the public domain. In recent years, there have been debates about whether the book should be republished and how to approach its historical significance. Due to its content, Mein Kampf remains a controversial work. Some argue that it should be studied as a historical document to understand the roots of Nazi ideology, while others emphasize the potential dangers of its dissemination.

While Mein Kampf is historically significant for understanding the development of Hitler's ideology and the rise of Nazism, it is important to approach it critically and within the context of the atrocities committed during the Nazi era. The book's publication and distribution continue to be subjects of ethical and legal discussions.

Hitler - A Study in Tyranny

The classic biography of Hitler that remains, years after its publication, one of the most authoritative and readable accounts of his life.

Hitler - 1889 - 1936 Hubris and Hitler

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales & overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century. Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit in his 30-year ascent from a Viennese shelter for the indigent to uncontested rule over the German nation that had tried & rejected democracy in the crippling aftermath of WWI. With extraordinary vividness, Kershaw recreates the settings that made Hitler's rise possible: the virulent anti-Semitism of prewar Vienna, the crucible of a war with immense casualties, the toxic nationalism that gripped Bavaria in the 20s, the undermining of the Weimar Republic by extremists of the Right & the Left, the hysteria that accompanied Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 & then mounted in brutal attacks by his storm troopers on Jews & others condemned as enemies of the Aryan race. In an account drawing on many previously untapped sources, Hitler metamorphoses from an obscure fantasist, a drummer sounding an insistent beat of hatred in Munich beer halls, to the instigator of an infamous failed putsch &, ultimately, to the leadership of a ragtag alliance of right-wing parties fused into a movement that enthralled the German people. This volume, 1st of two, ends with the promulgation of the infamous Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the outer fringes of society, & with the march of the German army into the Rhineland, Hitler's initial move toward the abyss of war.

Hitler - 1936-1945 Nemesis

The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. As Nemesis opens, Adolf Hitler has achieved absolute power within Germany and triumphed in his first challenge to the European powers. Idolized by large segments of the population and firmly supported by the Nazi regime, Hitler is poised to subjugate Europe. Nine years later, his vaunted war machine destroyed, Allied forces sweeping across Germany, Hitler will end his life with a pistol shot to his head. "More probing, more judicious, more authoritative in its rich detail...more commanding in its mastery of the horrific narrative." - Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune.

This is Berlin

William Shirer, the acclaimed journalist whose "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" quickly became, and still remains, the standard work on Nazi Germany, was a masterful chronicler of the events in Europe that led up to World War II. "This is Berlin" gathers together two and a half years worth of his daily CBS radio broadcasts that described the menacing steps Germany took toward World War II, just as America and the world heard them. Here is a vivid, compelling, and urgent narrative, one of the great first-hand documents of the Second World War.

The Rise and Fall Of The Third Reich

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.
No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour by hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.

The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.

This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany; it is a classic work.

Berlin Diary

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day by day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now available in a new paperback edition.

CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s specifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany.

Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The energy, the passion, the electricity in it were palpable. The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter at the right place at the right time. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever done a pure act of journalistic witness.

End of a Berlin Diary

A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s. It was in 1940, when he was still a virtual unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his eyewitness account of the collapse of the world around Nazi Germany could be of any interest or value as a book.

Shirer’s Berlin Diary, which is considered the first full record of what was happening in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, appeared in 1941. The book was an instant success and would not be the last of his expert observations on Europe.

Shirer returned to the European front in 1944 to cover the end of the war. As the smoke cleared, Shirer who watched the birth of a monster that threatened to engulf the world now stood witness to the death of the Third Reich. End of a Berlin Diary chronicles this year-long study of Germany after Hitler. Through a combination of Shirer’s lucid, honest reporting, along with passages on the Nuremberg trials, copies of captured Nazi documents, and an eyewitness account of Hitler’s last days, Shirer provides insight into the unrest, the weariness, and the tentative steps world leaders took towards peace.