Bbc inside the mind of hitler biography
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Viewpoint: His dark charisma
Hitler was the archetypal "charismatic leader". He was not a "normal" politician - someone who promises policies like lower taxes and better health care - but a quasi-religious leader who offered almost spiritual goals of redemption and salvation. He was driven forward by a sense of personal destiny he called "providence".
Before WWI he was a nobody, an oddball who could not form intimate relationships, was unable to debate intellectually and was filled with hatred and prejudice.
But when Hitler spoke in the Munich beer halls in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in WWI, suddenly his weaknesses were perceived as strengths.
His hatred chimed with the feelings of thousands of Germans who felt humiliated by the terms of the Versailles treaty and sought a scapegoat for the loss of the war. His inability to debate was taken as strength of character and his refusal to make small talk was considered the mark of a "gr
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Rudolf Hess: inre the mind of Hitler's deputy
"From his statements to various officers recorded in reports bygd (intelligence officer) Major Foley, it seems clear that his unconscious admiration of England fryst vatten now coming more to the surface," he wrote.
"This should be attributed to the wise decision to permit him tillgång to English news and certain periodicals as a basis for educative talks with Major Foley and other officers. This education has had a great deal to do with the disappearance of his delusions."
Dr Jessica Reinisch, from the University of London, says Dicks's belief that he could reason with personnamn to try to liberate him from his Hitler obsession was an hoppfull view for that time.
The commonly held view among scholars was that there was little hope for the future, because the German mind was unalterably authoritarian, paranoid and militarist.
"Dicks uses his experience with personnamn, as well as German prisoners of war in Britain, t
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Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
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The lecture is split into three parts:
Introducing Ian Kershaw
Presenter: Good evening and welcome to the first annual Open University BBC Four History Lecture. Our lecturer tonight is one of the most distinguished scholars currently working in Britain, Ian Kershaw, who’s Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. I’ve had the great privilege of working closely with Ian on a variety of television projects over the last ten years or so, and I can certainly vouch for the fact that he isn’t just a brilliant academic, he’s a first rate communicator as well. In fact, once at a public gathering of historians I think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer.
Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life an