Description
| Product ID: | 9780192802064 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The 'Hitler Myth' |
| Subtitle: | Image and Reality in the Third Reich |
| Authors: | Author: Ian Kershaw |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Political control and freedoms, Second World War, Fascism & Nazism, Propaganda, Germany, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, delves into Hitler's powerful hold over the German people. In this work, Ian Kershaw argues that it lay not so much in Hitler's personality or his bizarre Nazi ideology, as in the social and political values of the people. Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler''s extraordinarily powerful hold over the German people. In this ''major contribution to the study of the Third Reich'' (Times Literary Supplement), Ian Kershaw argues that it lay not so much in Hitler''s personality or his bizarre Nazi ideology, as in the social and political values of the people themselves. In charting the creation, rise, and fall of the `Hitler Myth'', he demonstrates the importance of the manufactured ''Führer cult'' to the attainment of Nazi political ends, and how the Nazis used the new techniques of propaganda to exploit and build on the beliefs, phobias, and prejudices of the day. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-09-27 |