Category Archives: Adolf Hitler

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

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

Background.

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Explaining Hitler

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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