Hitlers Weltanschauung: Entwurf einer Herrschaft

by Eberhard Jäckel

Selten oder vielleicht tatsächlich nie in der Geschichte hat ein Herrscher, ehe er an die Macht kam, so genau wie Adolf Hitler schriftlich entworfen, was er danach tat. Eberhard Jäckel, Professor für Neuere Geschichte ander Universität Stuttgart, zeichet dieses zugleich abstoßende und atemberaubende Gedankengebäude nach.

Genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction, Philosophy

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Eberhard Jäckel was a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in German history.

Reviews

[Tom]

An excellent introduction to Hitler's views and a detailed breakdown of his views, maybe a bit out of date but that should not stop you from reading it

[Cgcang]

Although dated, Jackel's work is concise and meaningful. A better translation and a more accessible writing might've raised my rating to 5 stars.

[Eric Deslauriers]

A solid examination of the fundamentals of Hitler's world view. Well written and organized. However, it is by now quite dated, and some of Jackel's formulations and conclusions would now be disputed by modern scholarship. That said, modern scholarship owes much to Jackel in the first place.

[Triss]

Very outdated. It had some interesting ideas about Hitler's life and why he did the things he did, but I just felt like there was never a main point to each chapter. It felt spread out and colluded at the same time.

[Sylvia]

Absolutely worth reading, but not easy to understand immediately, because the author uses difficult sentences to explain his point of view.
I certainly will reread this book, also because my German has to be improved.