Category Archives: Adolf Hitler

The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Luke Ford

Summary: “Why did some of the “best and brightest” of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their “radical conservatism” contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play … Continue reading →

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Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant By Ben Novak

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this 2014 book: * The question that initiated this study was a simple question that mystified Adolf Hitler’s contemporaries and has subsequently baffled historians and biographers: Why was Hitler successful in his rise to power? … Continue reading →

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R. H. S. Stolfi’s Book: Hitler: Beyond Evil & Tyranny

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Luke Ford

Background.

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Explaining Hitler

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Luke Ford

I’m rereading Mein Kampf. It seems like he drew the wrong lessons from WWI and that’s why he lost WWII. Hitler had the usual very incomplete understanding of history. Like a good Marxist, he imagined that he had found the … Continue reading →

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Hitler Vs Churchill

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Luke Ford

James Thompson writes: Rarely have two men been so savagely opposed, and so different in their formative experiences, though each had war experiences . Hitler (1889-1945) rose from nothing to absolute dominion over Europe, and fell like a stick; Churchill … Continue reading →

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