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What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler spent in Vienna. As a failing, bitter, and desperately poor artist, Hitler experienced only the dark underbelly of Vienna, which was seething with fear, racial prejudice, anti-Semitism and conservatism. Drawing on previously untapped sources—from personal reminiscences to the records of shelters where Hitler slept—Hamann vividly recreates the dark side of fin de siècle Vienna and paints the fullest and most disturbing portrait of the young Hitler to date.
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Hitler's Vienna, Brigitte Hamann
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Hitler's Vienna
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Brigitte Hamann
- Publisher
- Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN10
- 1848852770
- ISBN13
- 9781848852778
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, German Literature, Creative Nonfiction, Military History, Germany, World War II, Culture and Society, History of Europe, Jews, Austria, Nazism, Cultural History, International Relations, Vienna, Contemporary History, Adolf Hitler, Society and Politics, Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
- First published
- 1996
- Original title
- Hitlers Wien: Lehrjahre eines Diktators
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler spent in Vienna. As a failing, bitter, and desperately poor artist, Hitler experienced only the dark underbelly of Vienna, which was seething with fear, racial prejudice, anti-Semitism and conservatism. Drawing on previously untapped sources—from personal reminiscences to the records of shelters where Hitler slept—Hamann vividly recreates the dark side of fin de siècle Vienna and paints the fullest and most disturbing portrait of the young Hitler to date.