Using a previously unparalleled range of sources, this book reconstructs Hitler\'s thought processes and objectives.
Klemens von Klemperer Journal of Modern History.
His book constitutes a milestone in our understanding of Adolf Hitler.
Rainer Zitelmann has resolved to abstain from moral judgments; but his meticulous and responsible scholarship speaks all the louder.
He has taken the trouble to collate and evaluate all of Hitler\'s utterances and writings and has thus cleared the ground for a fuller understanding of Hitler\'s self-image, the nature of his ideology, his objectives, and his policies...
Many biographies have been written about Adolf Hitler, but Rainer Zitelmann\'s book on Hitler is not just another biography.
Zitelmann shows that Hitler\'s anti-capitalism became increasingly radicalized and that he eventually became an admirer of Stalin\'s Soviet planned economy.
It shows that Hitler developed a concept of National Socialism in which anti-capitalist ideas played a far greater role than has previously been assumed.
Using a previously unparalleled range of sources, this book reconstructs Hitler\'s thought processes and objectives