By Sebastian Haffner
Trans. Ewald Osers
This is a striking ancient and mental exam of the enigma of Adolf Hitler―who he was once, how he wielded strength, and why he was once destined to fail.
Beginning with Hitler’s adolescence, Sebastian Haffner probes the ancient, political, and emotional forces that molded his personality. In studying the inhumanity of a guy for whom politics grew to become an alternative choice to existence, he discusses Hitler’s weird and wonderful relationships with ladies, his arrested mental improvement, his ideological misconceptions, his becoming obsession with racial extermination, and the murderous rages of his distorted brain. eventually, Haffner confronts the main anxious query of all: may perhaps one other Hitler upward push to energy in sleek Germany?
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His first (still private) political action — the emigration from Austria to Germany. 3. His decision to become a politician. 4. His discovery of his hypnotic abilities as a mass-audience orator. 5. His decision to become Der Führer. 6. His decision to adapt his political timetable to his personal expectation of life (this is simultaneously his decision to wage war). 7. His decision to commit suicide. The last two decisions differ from the preceding ones in that they are solitary decisions. With all the others the subjective and objective sides are inseparable.
In feeling that way he was sharing the sentiments of many German Austrians of his day. With the whole of Germany behind them, Austria’s Germans had been able to rule over their multi-national empire for centuries and to impress their stamp on it. Since 1866 they had been excluded from Germany, and thus they had become a minority in their own empire, helpless in the long run against its many nationalities, condemned to practising a hegemony (one then shared with the Hungarians) for which their strength and number were no longer sufficient.
It was based not so much on his skill as a speaker — Hitler’s speeches got going slowly and hesitantly, they had little logical structure and at times barely a clear content; moreover, they were delivered in a hoarse, rough, guttural voice — as on a hypnotic ability, the ability of a concentrated willpower to gain control of a collective subconscious wherever it made itself available and at any time. That ability of mass hypnotism was Hitler’s first, and for a long time his only, political capital.