TY - BOOK AU - Haffner,Sebastian TI - The meaning of Hitler SN - 0674557751 (pbk.) AV - 302 DD 247 H675H 1983 U1 - 943.086/092/4 PY - 1983///, c1979 CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Hitler, Adolf, KW - Heads of state KW - Germany KW - Biography KW - Jefes de Estado KW - Alemania KW - Biografías N1 - Translation of: Anmerkungen zu Hitler; Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1979 N2 - This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitler―who he was, how he wielded power, and why he was destined to fail. Beginning with Hitler’s early life, Sebastian Haffner probes the historical, political, and emotional forces that molded his character. In examining the inhumanity of a man for whom politics became a substitute for life, he discusses Hitler’s bizarre relationships with women, his arrested psychological development, his ideological misconceptions, his growing obsession with racial extermination, and the murderous rages of his distorted mind. Finally, Haffner confronts the most disturbing question of all: Could another Hitler rise to power in modern Germany? ER -