Resultados para "Ian Kershaw" en Política y activismo

Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.

One of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall How far can a single leader alter the course of history? From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how...

Die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts war turbulent: Ganze Gesellschaften wurden umgestaltet, blutige Kriege geführt – oft unter Verachtung der grundlegendsten Werte. An der Spitze dieser Umwälzungen standen politische Führer, Demokraten wie Diktatoren, jeder von ihnen eine herausragende Persönlichkeit.

Brought to you by Penguin. Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of...

Wer gehörte zum innersten Kreis um Hitler? Welche Funktion erfüllte dieser Hofstaat? Und wie beeinflusste er das Geschichtsbild nach 1945? Auf der Grundlage bisher unbekannter Quellen erforscht Heike Görtemaker Hitlers privates Umfeld und zeigt, wie sein Kreis ihn zu dem machte, der er war. Ihr Buch rückt bis in die nächste Nähe zu Hitler vor und ist zugleich eine brillante Dekonstruktion des Führermythos. Sein innerer Kreis, die Berghof-Gesellschaft, war sein privater Rückzugsraum.

Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader – fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues – and yet he commanded enormous support. So how was it possible that Hitler became such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the...