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  title info:
    title: Young Hitler
    sub title: the making of the Führer
  name:
    name part: Ham, Paul
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xna
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life.' Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland. He heard of Germany's defeat as he lay immobilized in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded from mustard gas. He opened his eyes on a terrible new world, of Germany's loss and humiliation, the flight of the Kaiser, a Marxist uprising in Bavaria and the destruction of his beloved army. Hitler would never accept Germany's defeat or the terms of the peace settlement. Out of his fury arose an unquenchable thirst for revenge, against the 'November criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists whom he blamed for stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, on whom he would load the blame for all Germany's woes and whom he considered a direct threat to the German master race of his imagination. The seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler's youthful experiences, growing up in Linz, Vienna and Munich, and as a young soldier in the Great War. By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, war record and early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Furhrer conjures the ordinary man beneath the myth and seeks to solve the riddle behind the enigma of the Nazi leader. What turned 'a Viennese bum,' as Goring later damned him, into one of the most brutal dictators in human history? How had Hitler's first war, the defining years of his life, affect his rise to power? In a broader sense, was Hitler a freak of history? Or rather an extreme example of a recurring 'type' of demagogue, who thrives in chaos, revolution and economic collapse? Who will do and say anything to seize power? And who personifies in his words and actions the darkest prejudices of humankind?
  target audience: adult
  note: Paul Ham.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hitler, Adolf
      name part: 1889-1945
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hitler, Adolf
      name part: 1889-1945
    topic: Childhood and youth
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
  subject:
    topic: Heads of state
    geographic: Germany
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: National socialism
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1918-1933
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1933-1945
  classification: DD247.H5 H2815 2017
  classification: 943.086092
  identifier: 9780143786559
  identifier: 0143786555
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 170627
    record change date: 20190718162536.0
    record identifier: in00004004476