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Category Archives: Adolf Hitler
R. H. S. Stolfi: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of Hitler
R. H. S. Stolfi (1932–2012) held a distinctive and contested place in late twentieth-century military historiography. Russel H. S. Stolfi served as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and taught modern European history for many years at … Continue reading
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Who Is Served And Who Is Hurt By The Frame That Hitler Was The Ultimate Evil?
Why is the catalyzing force of Hitler’s antisemitism is treated as a historical ultimate rather than a phenomenon with its own causes in German politics, economic crisis, the Versailles settlement, racial science, and the broader European anti-Jewish current? Those causes … Continue reading
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The Critical Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is one of the five most important political documents of the twentieth century (along with The Communist Manifesto (1848), Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918), Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)) and … Continue reading
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Hitler Laughing: Comedy in the Third Reich (6-21-21)
00:00 Cultural historian William Grange 01:00 Alexander Technique 03:00 My 2007 interview with William Grange 07:00 Aging and cognitive power 09:30 Writers block 12:00 American identity 15:00 African-American identity 20:00 The civil rights revolution 22:00 American theater and American identity … Continue reading
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
John Carey writes in this 1993 book: * This book is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to the new phenomenon of mass culture. It argues that modernist literature and art can be seen as a hostile reaction … Continue reading
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Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (2009)
From the 2009 edition Introduction by the author Frederic Spotts: * You can discuss Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot with calm reason. But it is almost impossible to talk about Hitler rationally. When, in 2000, Time magazine was considering whom … Continue reading
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Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by professor Robert Gellately: * Hitler said of the NSDAP in the 1920s that “90 ninety percent of it was made up by left-wing people.” He also thought it was “decisive” that … Continue reading
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One man’s adventure beyond good & evil
If you can’t read a book without losing your mind, and you’re not willing to do the work to get sane, then you should get a legal guardian who makes all important decisions for you. People love to blame anyone … Continue reading
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The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism
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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I Argue With Paul Gottfried
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