Hitler: The Missing Years

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ISBN-10:

1559702788

ISBN-13:

9781559702782

Edition: First Edition
Released: Nov 07, 1994
Format: Hardcover, 310 pages
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Description:

An intimate friend of Adolf Hitler?s who turned against him during the Nazi rise to power delves into the character of one of history?s most evil dictators.Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would some day come to power. As Hitler?s fanatical theories and ideas hardened, however, he surrounded himself with rabid extremists such as Goering, Hess, and Goebbels, and Hanfstaengl became estranged from him. But with the Nazi?s major unexpected political triumph in 1930, Hitler became a national figure, and he invited Hanfstaengl to be his foreign press secretary. It is from this unique insider?s position that the author provides a vivid, intimate view of Hitler?with












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