The Hidden Hitler
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465043089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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of Wisconsin, MadisonCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Barbara Walden, Univ. A professor of modern and current history at the University of Bremen, Germany, and the author of several scholarly books on 19th-century Germany, Machtan here presents a documented study of Hitler's homosexuality and its impact upon his life and career. Libraries that own Joachim Fest's seminal Hitler (LJ 7/74) and Ian Kershaw's Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (LJ 1/99) and Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (LJ 11/1/00), as well as a selection of the works of George Mosse on Nazi culture, should acquire this work. As he became prominent, some of his associates in homoerotic circles of the Nazi movement attempted to blackmail him. From Library JournalThe first of Machtan's works to be translated into English, this is certain to be controversial. Machtan asserts that Hitler's homosexuality was known to some of his associates by the beginning of World War I and later in Vienna. Although documenting ho
Methinks the lady doth protest too much Contrary to the abundant negative reviews of Lothar Machtan's THE HIDDEN HITLER there is something to be gained by reading this at times lugubrious treatise on the impact of Hitler's implied homosexuality in attempting to understand the singular horror of his existence. That "something" is a heightened und. A lot of other things begin to fall into place This book is a primary source for "The Pink Swastika", written by Scott Lively and also reviewed by me. "The Hidden Hitler" is a far better book, with more thorough documentation and no hidden agenda outside of seeking the Truth. As history is explained and documented in this book, a lot of other things fa. Ulfilas said Germany subconsciously seduced by Hitler's homoeroticism. The author teases out a thread that seems to run through Hitler's life and associations: that he may have been a closeted homosexual. Rohm, the leader of the thuggish Nazi auxiliary the Sturmabteilung (SA), was an open homosexual. The author argues that Hitler's elimination of Rohm and his cohorts, known a
No other figure in contemporary history is associated with such far-reaching historical impact and such monstrous crimes. His name alone is emblematic of world war and Holocaust. Of these, Eckart and Rˆhm were pivotal to his entry into politics. The assasination of Ernst Rˆhm, along with roughly 150 other men over a four day period in 1934, served as a chilling message to all with knowledge, or access to knowledge, about the F¸hrer's past life.Recent books on the Nazi movement have argued that the Third Reich was a fundamentally sordid regime. And that is w