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Blurb: “The GREAT LIVES OBSERVED series combines the intimacy of autobiography, the immediacy of eyewitness observation, and the objectivity of modern scholarship.
In HITLER, George H. Stein presents Hitler's own words, the views of his contemporaries, and analyses in retrospect by leading historians and political scientists to create a three-fold perspective.
The hair slanting across the high forehead, the burning eyes, the toothbrush mustache still instantly identify for millions of people throughout the world one of the most terrifying personalities of the twentieth century-Adolf Hitler.
"During the twelve years he ruled the Third Reich," writes George H. Stein, editor of this book, "Hitler raised the German people to dizzying heights of power... and then dropped them into the abyss of desolation that was the price of a lost world war that he had provoked and during which he instituted a program of calculated terror and deliberate human slaughter that surpassed the most bestial excesses previously known to man."
Was Hitler wholly mad? What shaped his twisted thoughts and actions? How could he subject half of Europe to the most brutal of totalitarian dictatorships? Through Hitler's speeches and writings, through firsthand accounts by his contemporaries - including Goebbels and Göring - and through the post-war interpretations of international authorities, this book provides answers to such questions and presents a multi-faceted view of Hitler's role in modern history's darkest hour.”