Hitler's Vienna : a dictator's apprenticeship

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Hitler's Vienna : a dictator's apprenticeship

Brigitte Hamann ; translated from the German by Thomas Thornton

Oxford University Press, 1999

  • : Cloth
  • : Pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: Cloth ISBN 9780195125375

Description

Hitler's Vienna is the authoritative biography of Adolf Hitler's early life until his departure from Austria as a 24-year-old. It is also the cultural history of Vienna as Hitler encountered it during his formative years: the Vienna of immigrants, the unemployed, and the homeless, and also of German Nationalism and anti-Semitism. Brigitte Hamann examines for the first time the few accounts of eyewitnesses and the many legends of Hitler's early years, bringing to light newly discovered letters and facts about his close contact with Jewish friends and benefactors. She also analyses the influence of the politicians who determined Hitler's political path: Georg von Schonerer, the 'Fuhrer of the German people', the folk tribune and mayor Dr Karl Lueger, the German radical Karl Hermann Wolf, and the All-German Workersleader Franz Stein - all four full of hatred, and adversaries of the Jews and of international social democracy. No one has produced such an extensive and well-founded picture of the climate and milieu in which Hitler's character and ideas matured. Hitler's Vienna demonstrates, using a wealth of individual examples, that central elements in Hitler's world-view were acquired during this formative period in Vienna.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. From the Provinces to the Capital
  • Excursus: Hitler's Ancestors in Waldviertel
  • 2. The Vienna of the Modern Era
  • Excursus: The term Degenerate
  • 3. The Imperial City
  • Excursus: Days in March and the Heldenplatz
  • 4. In Parliament
  • 5. The Social Question
  • 6. As a Painter in the Men's Hostel
  • Excursus: Sources on the Men's Hostel
  • 7. Theoreticians of Race
  • 8. Political Role Models
  • 9. Czechs in Vienna
  • 10. Jews in Vienna
  • Excursus: Two Examples
  • 11. Young Hitler and Women
  • 12. Before the Great War
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
Volume

: Pbk ISBN 9780195140538

Description

Hitler's Vienna is the authoritative biography of Adolf Hitler's early life up to his departure from Austria as a 24-year-old. It is also the cultural and political history of Vienna as Hitler encountered it during his critical formative years: the Vienna of immigrants, the unemployed, and the homeless, and also of German Nationalism and antisemitism. Brigitte Hamann examines critically for the first time the few accounts of eyewitnesses and the many legends of Hitler's early years, bringing to light, for example, newly discovered letters and facts about his close contact with Jewish friends and benefactors. She also analyses the influence of the politicians who determined Hitler's political path. No one has produced such an extensive and well-founded picture of the climate and milieu in which Hitler's character was shaped. Hitler's Vienna demonstrates, using a wealth of individual examples, that central elements in Hitler's world-view were acquired during his Vienna years.

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