Hitler's Vienna A Portrait of the Tyrant As a Young Man

Name: Hitler's Vienna A Portrait of the Tyrant As a Young Man
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ISBN: 9781848852778

ISBN-10: 1848852770

ISBN-13: 9781848852778

Edition: 2010

Authors: Brigitte Hamann, Hans Mommsen

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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. For it was here, behind the glittering curtain of artistic creativity, liberalism and prosperity, that the architect of the Holocaust was born. 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…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 6/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.81" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



From the Provinces to the Capital



The Vienna of the Modern Era



The Imperial City



In Parliament



The Social Question



As a Painter in the Men's Hostel



Theoreticians of Race and Explainers of the World



Political Role Models



Czechs in Vienna



Jews in Vienna



Young Hitler and Women



Before the Great War


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index